Politics

I’m watching as Barack Obama has just achieved a historic victory in the U.S. presidential election and I’m thinking, how can this man ever be anything but a [Continue]

Suddenly, civic election signs started sprouting like weeds this past weekend. Why? Halloween, silly. Signs have been slower to appear this year for two reasons. The first [Continue]

One of the common threads among civic election all-candidates’ forums is how little light they shed on what people will actually do when they get into office. This [Continue]

I’m sitting here, waiting for the final results to come in, and I’m torn between thinking there’s something seriously wrong with the way we elect Members of [Continue]

Driving to the polling station this morning, I asked my son Jacob to check the address on the Elections Canada card that had come in the mail. He read off the address and [Continue]

The question of who “won” tonight’s all-candidates’ forum at the TRU Grand Hall depends partly on your bias toward one candidate or another, and on [Continue]