One of the things I care
most about is electoral reform. Maclean's Magazine reports that support for the
current electoral system remains quite strong.
The Trudeau Government
announced their plan for the Senate, Emmet MacFarlane offers his take on how to
reform the Senate from the inside. It's far from ideal, but in our calcified system it may be the best we can hope
for.
CBC has moved to bar
comments on Indigenous stories. The reasoning for why is provided by indigenous
CBC personnel reading out some comments.
This is a history topic
that I always find interesting. New evidence suggests that the Greenland Norse
were not driven out of Greenland by cooling temperatures.
Right-wing anti-Muslim
politicians just aren't gaining ground in the United States. In a recent
election the Front Nationale won a significant share of local elections.
Jon Ivison suggests that
the promise of electoral reform in Canada poses an existential threat to the Conservative Party.
Finland is scrapping its
social safety net in exchange for giving all its citizens 800 Euros per month.
Finally, Martin Regg Cohn
writes that unless the province enforces the Green Belt a dire future is ahead for
the suburban ring around Toronto.
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