Published: February 20th 2019 Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108651984 (ISBN13: 9781108651981) The Ontario NDPs held their first Black Caucus meeting on a summer evening mid-August 2019. The meeting was well attended allowing for a variety of voices, that aren’t usually heard, an opportunity to say what’s on their mind and offer ideas to the…
Tag: Electoral Reform
Modern Humanism – Our Voice (Part II)
Go to: Modern Humanism – Part I In a Toronto Star article, Oprah Winfrey talks about income inequality and why she left 60 Minutes by relating an experience early in her career. “In the late ’70s and ’80s, she said, “back when I was doing the news in Baltimore, I asked to make the same…
Pillars of Democracy – Representation
To celebrate its 25th-anniversary CPAC launched a four-part documentary series calledthe Four Pillars of Democracy: Justice, Freedom, Equality, and Representation which highlights four democratic events that have shaped our social and political landscape. Imagine, if you will, these four pillars are actually four legs to a dinner table that holds a feast of the various…
The Experiment – Our Democracy
What an odd piece of commentary based on social shunning. Is this actually possible? All sorts of behavioral social experiments are being conducted through the internet on unsuspecting individuals that would leave you preferring authentic human to human connections rather than spending time online only to find that you’ve been deliberately isolated and segregated because…
United We Stand (Part III) – Democracy Week (September 15-21st)
Go to: “United We Stand!”: Canadian Dream- Part II, United We Stand – Part I With so many events happening in the news today, it’s hard to keep track of all of them. News-stories We are so enamored with events occurring around the world and in the United States, we sometimes miss opportunities for stories…
United We Stand (Part II) – The Canadian Dream
Go to: United We Stand – Part I, United We Stand – Part III Illegal Immigration. Un-invited guests. Go back home! Immigration, illegal or not, it is a problem faced by many countries, including our own, around the world creating mass amount of fear, hysteria, xenophobia and down right hate. Yet when you take…
Do We Really Need a Women’s Political Party? Electoral Reform (Part III)
“Women have all the power,” my best friend always used to say, “too bad they don’t know it!” Go to: Part I – Party, Part II – Female Leadership Second-wave feminism in Canada relied on successfully pressuring multiple access points within the legislative, bureaucratic and judicial structures of the federal state. Today these boundaries of…
