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#canpoli

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

What a shame this was. The BC Citizen's Assembly came up with a really great made-for-BC form of Proportional Representation that checked off all the boxes. It would, in fact, be a great model for a PR system in the whole of Canada.

It gave people ranked choice, it preserved and emphasized local representation, it gave opportunities to small and large parties as well as independents even within large multi-member ridings, it ensured the results were still fair and representative, and it may have even reduced the tendency toward partisanship. And it could all still easily be done with a simple paper ballot.

But the entrenched interests in the BC Liberals and NDP could not possibly give in to the will of the people… and they spent the next decade destroying the consensus for it.

citizensassembly.arts.ubc.ca/p

Here are their resources:

a PowerPoint/PDF: citizensassembly.arts.ubc.ca/r

A/V presentations (in WMV format): citizensassembly.arts.ubc.ca/p

And a full report and other info: citizensassembly.arts.ubc.ca/p

It was a top-tier effort that I think the result of the referendum proved was appreciated, valued and accepted by the majority of the population across the province but which the government and political parties felt did not serve their purpose, so they shut it down.

And this is why people get so cynical.

citizensassembly.arts.ubc.caCitizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform - BC-STV and the single transferable voteThe Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform is an independent, non-partisan assembly established by the Government of British Columbia to examine BC's electoral system.
#canpoli#cdnpoli#electoralreform
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Chris Alemany

20 years ago this week a majority of BC voters approved a change to BC-STV, a homegrown form of proportional representation recommended by a Citizen’s Assembly of their peers.

Government ignored them and then ensured subsequent referenda failed.

I just stumbled on my post about it 20 years ago! I was more forgiving/naïve then.

Keep fighting. ✊

#canpoli #cdnpoli #electoralreform #bcpoli #proportionalrepresentation
chrisalemany.ca/2005/05/18/bc-

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Kevin Russell

Post Offices are gloriously self funding, subtract billionaire profit and bang, good to go. Good jobs, great service, fully Canadian in every nook and cranny, not a dime leaves as profit.

The Post Office is the subject of lies, attacks, conspiracies and bullshit.

It does the exact same service as FedEx but it also SERVES HOMES as if they owned rhe enterprise. Use it, demand it grow and improve.

#Canada #cdnpoli #canpoli #post # #postoffice #CanadaPost #carney

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Andrew Henry

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California’s Assembly Bill No. AB 1167 (AB 1167) required full-cost financial assurance upon the transfer of low-producing oil wells. The result has been to curtail the transfer of low-producing wells that likely posed greater risk of operator defaults to the State of California. Comparing transfers prior to the bill and after its implementation reveal a stark contrast – from over 1,300 wells in the first half of 2023, to just six wells in 2024.  

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#abpoli #canpoli

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Carbon Tracker InitiativeClosing the Oil Well Transfer Loophole - Carbon Tracker InitiativeThe Impact of California’s Orphan Well Prevention Act on the transfer of oil well cleanup liabilities...
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

In other news... now that the United States Fascist Government isn't *actively* threatening Canada's sovereignty, the BBC is back to having no Canada-related articles on the top tier of its "US & Canada" section.

There is not a *single* story about Canada.

Even though the King is coming in less than a week.. lol.

I know it's not “the time”... but, why are we still a Monarchy…?

#Uninteresting #SecurityThroughObscurity #Canada #UK #CanPoli #RepublicOfCanada
bbc.com/news/us-canada

As of 12:30PM PDT there are 5 articles with image previews in this screenshot from the US & Canada section. All are American related.
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Ev Delen

On April 28th, after thoroughly witnessing how the far-right #Trump administration is decimating everything good in society, the majority of #Ontario voters made their voices heard, that they oppose far-right policies.

#DougFord, an unoriginal Trump acolyte in every way from the lying and doublespeak to the cronyism and corruption, and playacts as "Captain Canada", wants nothing more than to turn Ontario into a Mini-USA.

#OntarioIsNotForSale

thestar.com/opinion/contributo

Toronto StarDoug Ford’s America-inspired solution to homelessness won’t work. This willWhile Manitoba is instructing us on a "Made in Canada" approach to homelessness that works, Premier Ford is modelling dysfunctional policies championed by an irrational American president.
#ONPoli#CDNPoli#CanPoli
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rabble.ca

Join us as we explore what’s next—both on and off Parliament Hill—for rebuilding the Green Party and NDP, pushing forward progressive policies, and sustaining activism in today’s centrist political climate. #canpoli

rabble.ca/politics/canadian-po

rabble.ca · What’s next for the NDP and Greens?This month, we'll be digging into what comes next —both on and off Parliament Hill— for rebuilding the Green Party and the NDP.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

I hope Carney solidifies the new functioning of the Senate of Canada into law somehow. Having Senators appointed as Independents rather than beholden to any party has been a good change.

This article written by a BC Senator makes a lot of sense and gives me hope that there are legislators (like @Paulatics) in Parliament that take their responsibility to protect the constitutional rights of all Canadians very seriously.

reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/

“Independent senators can be expected to exercise their duties vigorously under any government, using all the procedural tools at their disposal, including proposing extensive amendments to bills that are flawed — as they have done in the past nine years. In fact, since the advent of non-partisan appointments, there have been an unprecedented number of Senate amendments to government bills, many of which were accepted by the House of Commons.

And if bills are proposed by a new government that challenge fundamental rights, including the rights of minorities and regions that senators have a special duty to protect, one should expect the resistance to be even more determined. Unlike opposition partisans, independent senators are not interested in opposing for the sake of opposing. But if egregious violations of rights are involved, I believe Canadians will not only tolerate but actively support a Senate that is prepared to play its role as a defender of basic freedoms and as the chamber of sober second thought. As Macdonald put it, “There would be no use of an Upper House, if it did not exercise, when it thought proper, the right of opposing or amending or postponing the legislation of the Lower House.”

Literary Review of Canada · At Mace Value: Not your father’s SenateAn original essay by Yuen Pau Woo on the constitutional role of the Senate and the importance of independent members in the Upper House.
#canpoli#cdnpoli#senate
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