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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that theĀ federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Duff Conacher

Duff Conacher is the coordinator of Democracy Watch, a Canadian democratic reform organization.

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Duff Conacher

One and a Half Cheers

Should we try other solutions before plumping for voting reforms? September 2008
Minority governments crop up with some regularity in Canadian voting history, but they are fragile flowers that do not tend to last long. Of the twelve federal minorities this country has had since 1921, their average length of operation has been one year, eight and a half months. Stephen Harper has outrun the average by a full year at this…

Ballot-Box Blues

An academic thinks the Canadian voting system is fine, but our reviewer begs to differ September 2004