What's Next for the Green Party of Canada?
The six leadership candidates for the Green Party of Canada. Image from CBC. With the start of the Green Party of Canada's leadership...
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gabrielblanc
- Aug 19
- 3 min
It's Lyme Disease Season in Ontario. You can Blame the Housing Crisis.
Aerial photo of Ottawa suburbs. From flickr. Between 2012 and 2017, the incidence of Lyme disease in Ontario grew by a factor of ten....
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gabrielblanc
- Jun 7
- 5 min
In Defense of Mandatory Voting
Photo from the Globe and Mail In the wake of an election with 43 per cent voter turnout — the lowest in Ontario's history — pundits and...
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gabrielblanc
- Oct 31, 2021
- 4 min
Canada: A Democracy in Decline?
This article was first published in the Brown Political Review. Image from Dennis Jarvis on Flickr. Although Canada’s recent federal...
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gabrielblanc
- Mar 16, 2021
- 4 min
Keystone, the Commons, and Energy Independence
This article first appeared in the Brown Political Review. Image from Alex on Adobe Stock. Among the flurry of executive orders signed by...
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gabrielblanc
- Jan 30, 2021
- 3 min
Op-ed: Covid-19 is a public health issue, not a national security issue (duh?)
Image from the National Post. I wrote this a while ago in response to this op-ed by Andrew Potter. Slightly less relevant now, it's still...
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gabrielblanc
- Jan 2, 2021
- 5 min
Stuck in the middle without UBI
This article was originally published in the Brown Political Review. It was written in the Fall, and touches on all sorts of things I've...
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gabrielblanc
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
Trudeau's broken promise playbook
Photo courtesy of CTV News. A few weeks ago, the Liberal government announced that it was giving up on its promise to end boil-water...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 30, 2020
- 7 min
Electoral Reform for Canada
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.com. I've written a fair bit about electoral reform on this blog, so here is a list of some ideas for...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 27, 2020
- 6 min
Duverger says it can happen here too
If Americans have learned one thing over the past four years, it's that they shouldn't feel too comfortable with the phrase "it could...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 19, 2020
- 6 min
Electoral reform is for losers
Like my post about "Canada's 'blue wave'" this is an expansion on something I touch on in an article I recently wrote for the Brown...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 16, 2020
- 4 min
Canada's "blue wave"
I mention the federal/provincial power split in an article I wrote for the Brown Political Review about Canada's "fundamental centrism."...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 13, 2020
- 4 min
Op-ed: MacParland shouldn't need AOC to make a fallacious election argument
Photo from the National Post's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nationalpost Kelly MacParland published two articles on AOC in the National...
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