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Last week, I wrote an article explaining my reservations with the Ontario Municipal Board’s disregard for democratic policymaking. What’s worse than its sweeping power is the fact that it justifies its decisions so poorly. I was happy, then, to learn that Bill 20 is making …
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Good on the Liberal Party of Canada for releasing riding-by-riding results as soon as the leadership vote was over. The website they used was decent enough for drilling down to a particular riding, but unfortunately they didn’t publish machine-readable data that can be parsed …
Read more →For those who haven’t read it yet, my piece on the University of Waterloo International Development program is finally up on the Imprint website. It’s been out in paper format for a couple weeks now, but for those who haven’t been around campus, here …
Read more →In May of this year, I started writing a political commentary column in Imprint, the University of Waterloo’s student newspaper. In June, I came on board The Opposition, a new start-up website dedicated to fostering intellectual debate about Canadian and international politics. With Imprint taking …
Read more →This post first appeared as a 2-part article in Imprint, the University of Waterloo’s official newspaper. On Sep. 17, I was poking around the Internet when I came across news of a protest organized by Anonymous, the hacktivist collective known for circumventing state censorship …
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Peter Davis is running as an independent candidate in the October 6 election. He’s no stranger to politics – his mother ran for Ward 6 councillor in the last municipal election. Don’t let his soft-spoken demeanour fool you, though – he’s got big plans …
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Photo by John Vetterli It’s the most wonderful time of the year – election season! Yes folks, once again, your candidates (the provincial ones this time) are knocking on doors and burning up photocopiers all over town just to get your attention. Doesn’t it …
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