Canada

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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."...