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F-oFFAug 10, 20154 min read

Dismayed with May diss

Sadly, the Maclean’s National Leaders Debate on August 6 may turn out to be the only debate where Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party, will participate.

May was not invited to the other two major English debates hosted by the Globe and Mail and Google…

F-oFFAug 10, 20152 min read

Why do female politicians still have to deal with this bullsh*t?

New Bloc Quebecois candidate Catherine Fournier found out on her first day of the campaign trail just how ugly our Canadian trolls can be.

Alex KennedyOct 22, 20155 min read

Pain Point. Oppurtunity.

… Got into a shitty argument the day after the election. I’m out in the West side of my Canada. It’s a new day, we have a new leader. I was on my bike out in east van, riding on Hastings Street. I was on an errand. I see a friend walking out of a grocery store — So I turn off Hastings and coast up…

F-oFFAug 17, 20154 min read

Oh Cannabis

Let’s talk marijuana, otherwise known as weed, pot, reefer, grass, dope, ganja, Mary Jane, Juanita, Jay, jolly green, joy smoke, joy stick — we counted more than 100 names but wanted to get to actually discussing the drug rather than listing its nicknames. (Note “demon weed” was not on our list.)

Joe COct 18, 20155 min read

Signs to Watch on Monday Night

Tomorrow is election day, and the end of the longest general election campaign in over a century (thank god for that, I hear you say). Canadians will elect 338 new Members of Parliament, who will then decide who will form the next federal government.

Joe CSep 26, 20151 min read

3 way race? Hardly.

Martin Bearington

I would be interested to know where you got your information from. The majority of the polls I see have the Conservatives near or above 50% support in Alberta, despite what happened in the provincial election earlier this year, which puts them at 30 seats by my projections. BC has them around the 30% mark, which puts them at 17 out of 42. Yes, the…

VoteVancouverAug 18, 20153 min read

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What is VoteVancouver.org and Why It’s Important

Sometime in April or May of this year, the two people who would later become the core team…

Semeon AnalyticsOct 19, 20151 min read

Semeon Analytics predicts Liberal Majority before everyone else

Based on a unique proprietary and linguistic regional sentiment analysis, Semeon has been able to predict, not only in Quebec Provincial elections but the major and very tight, controversial and difficult to predict…

Joe CAug 15, 20155 min read

How the NDP can finish ahead in the vote, but behind in seats

Since June, we have seen the NDP consistently ahead of the Conservatives in opinion polls when it comes to the popular vote. In Canada, however, what matters most is seats in parliament. As we know, it is the party that can…

Sean Celi in Democracy CheckSep 5, 20153 min read

Top #elxn42 and #cdnpoli tweets of the week (August 28 — September 4)

As the election campaign progresses and federal leaders reveal their stance on the biggest election issues in the country, we get a stronger sense of how each federal leader will perform once (indirectly…