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When is a majority not a majority?

Proportional representation in Canada has been a long time coming. Yesterday, we crossed yet another milestone on the road to a fairer voting system. The Special Committee on Electoral Reform (ERRE) released its final report [PDF], which includes majority support for proportional representation. …

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America by train, New Orleans by night, and a rest in Mexico

29 March 2016 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada There are four and a half hours until our train leaves. Julia is rushing to complete some paperwork for her financial return to Elections Canada. She's in the living room, papers strewn across the work table. It seems inevitable to be rushing around at the …

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Adventure at the Panama-Colombia border

Our destination is Colombia, but we got a big dose of adventure before even setting foot there. We wanted to arrive without flying, which meant getting up close and personal with the Guna Yala, a proud and independent Indigenous group that controls access to the only safe passage through the …

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Dance of the Happy Shades Book Review

Alice Munro
These short stories bring me right back to childhood in small-town Ontario. A generation or two removed from my experience, but I recognize my own stories in hers. She does not gloss over the boredom, or pain, or jealousy, or resignation of the human condition.

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