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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

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…