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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Jeff Costen

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Bob Armstrong
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Patti T. Lenard

Patti Tamara Lenard is a professor of ethics at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Her most recent book is Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012).

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Making Politics More Welcoming

More than 40 countries let non-citizen residents vote municipally. Why not Canada? June 2013
This fall, Toronto City Council will debate a motion that could allow approximately 261,000 previously ineligible people to vote in Toronto municipal elections for the first time. (This number, which is based on the 2006 census, has likely risen, but is difficult to estimate due to the loss of the mandatory long-form census, which contained data on citizenship.) These people are not Canadian…