Politics

Dueling surveys show opposite results on appetite for electoral changes

October 6, 2016 // 5 Comments

Voters don’t want Canada’s electoral system to change, but they do want a referendum on the Liberal government’s plan to change it. Wait a minute. Doesn’t a paper [Continue]

‘Overwhelming desire’ to change election system, local committee concludes

October 2, 2016 // 12 Comments

First-past-the-post must go, and we don’t need a referendum to decide, says a local election reform group. Murray Todd of the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Electoral Reform [Continue]

Candidates to talk on electoral reform

July 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ POLITICS — Three of the four candidates in the upcoming federal election — all except incumbent Conservative MP Cathy McLeod — will talk about proportional [Continue]

Greens bring election slate to four

July 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ POLITICS — The Greens are in for the upcoming federal election, expanding the slate to four in the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding. The party announced today that [Continue]

Auditor General ‘may not have a true understanding’ of travel situation — senator

June 13, 2015 // 6 Comments

NEWS/ POLITICS — Kamloops Senator Nancy Greene Raine says the Office of the Auditor General “may not have a true understanding or appreciation of the realities of [Continue]

Federal NDP push for proportional electoral system

December 2, 2014 // 1 Comment

NEWS/ POLITICS — Federal NDP candidate Bill Sundhu wants to fix what he calls an unfair electoral system that, in 2011, gave the Conservatives a majority government with 53 [Continue]