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  1. Can Mulcair work a miracle and gain unlikely victory?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The big sleeper in the campaign that could mean victory for the Conservatives depends on whether hundreds-of-thousands of people who favour the NDP or the Liberals can manage to vote. According to the Council of Canadians, the so-called Fair Elections Act makes it more difficult for at least 770,000 people to vote.
  2. Canada After Harper
    His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
  3. Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
    Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
  4. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
  5. Canada's prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Stephen Harper, who won by an uncomfortably small margin in the last election, has passed laws designed to keep voters who oppose him from the polls.
  6. The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial.
  7. The Canadian Elections: Cover-Up and Steal (Again)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The opposition parties in Canada's 2015 federal election are sticking to a careful PR-driven script, refusing to even mention the fact that Stephen Harper's Conservatives broke the law and committed fraud in winning the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections. The mainstream media and the political parties scrupulously ignore this reality.
  8. Canadian Socialism
    Essays on the CCF and the NDP

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  9. Canadian Voice of Women wants to Make for Space for Peace this election
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Canadian Voice of Women wants to Make for Space for Peace this election. National peace organization calls on leaders to take pledge for peace and supports its twelve priorities.
  10. Catastrophe: The NDP lost because it deserved to
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    It is, ultimately, astounding how facile and false political narratives come back to haunt those who insist on their veracity.
  11. Changes to voting system leave Canada worse off
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    How did we end up with this convoluted and discriminatory method of voting when we once had perhaps the best method in the world - door-to-door enumeration and no hard-to-get voter ID requirement?
  12. Cree Agenda Becomes Part of Federal Election
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    The politicians of all parties are acting as if Aboriginal rights are irrelevant to this question of Quebec secession. Not only is it relevant: it is, in fact, central to the whole question. And if the politicians would only admit this frankly, the terms of the whole debate would be changed overnight.
  13. Election fraud? Council of Canadians launches "VoteWatch" election fraud reporting service
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Council of Canadians is launching VoteWatch, a service to report voter suppression Canadians may experience or witness.
  14. Elections Canada bungled its investigation of Michael Sona and the 2011 robocall scandal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Because the 'robocalls' fraud of Canada's 2011 federal election was insufficiently investigated by state authorities and underreported by the corporate media, Canadians have yet to understand its scale, focus, and impact.
  15. Fair Vote Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
    Representing over 55,000 Canadians, Fair Vote Canada is a grassroots, multi-partisan citizens' campaign for voting reform. We promote the introduction of an element of proportional representation into elections for all levels of government and throughout civil society.

    In a democracy, every voter's voice should be heard in Parliament. The share of votes the electorate cast for a party's candidates should match the share of seats a party is awarded, so majority governments will have a mandate from a true majority of voters. Those are defining principles of Proportional Representation, and those are the principles Fair Vote Canada endorses.
  16. Federal election results online at Parliamentary Names & Numbers
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Parliamentary Names & Numbers, the directory of Canada's federal and provincial governments, has now been updated with the results of the October 14 federal election.
  17. Federal Election: Canadian Ethnocultural Council provides information about when, where and ways to vote
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On behalf of Elections Canada, the Canadian Ethnocultural Council is doing outreach to inform voters about when, where and ways to vote.
  18. Filtering The Election
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Examining the mainstream media's role in the 2016 US election of suppressing criticisms of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party establishment.
  19. If you liked Mike Harris you'll love Stephen Harper with a majority
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
  20. Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
  21. Lung Association working to make lung health federal election priority
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    This week The Lung Association will launch a national campaign to empower Canadians to advocate for action on lung health. Please visit www.lung.ca on Thursday for more details and make your voice heard.
  22. The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
  23. Mercenary of Reaction
    Lynton Crosby in Canada

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Lynton Crosby has a full schedule. He is the modern electoral PR hitman for parties in dire straits. He is hired to stir the pot of resentment and undermine hopes for change. His very existence suggests that democracies are shadows of their actual function, operating on traditional platforms of populism when required.
  24. NDP campaign enters panic mode
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    If in politics a week can be a lifetime, a month can be an eternity -- especially in an election campaign.
  25. NDP campaign enters panic mode
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    If in politics a week can be a lifetime, a month can be an eternity -- especially in an election campaign.
  26. New group urges progressives to build 'One Big Campaign' to take on Harper
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A campaign urging Canadian social activist groups to work together under one massive umbrella to take on the Harper regime and his right-wing supporters was officially launched today.
  27. October 19, 2015 is Voting Day: Are You Registered To Vote?
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Check, update or complete your voter registration at elections.ca or call Elections Canada at 1-800-463-6868. You can register in advance until October 13 at 6 pm local time. After that, you must register when you vote.
  28. On the Defeat of Megan Leslie & Peter Stoffer
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    What happened on Monday is proof of how divorced from reality we are. Progressives, radicals, the Left, whatever you call the people who believe in and strive for deep social change - we are disconnected from the majority of people. We are insulated in our communities of like-minded activists, surrounded by people with similar beliefs and thoughts.
  29. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
  30. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
    Voter Suppression

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
  31. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
    Elections

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
  32. Our Generation
    Volume 1 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1962
  33. Our Generation
    Volume 20 Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  34. Shades of Grey -- A Left Chapter look at strategy, tactics and endorsements in the 2015 election
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    With just under two weeks to go until election day, anti-capitalist leftists are in something of a quandary.
  35. Strong voter registration campaign could mean the end for Harper
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The primary objective of Stephen Harper's absurdly-named Fair Elections Act is to prevent hundreds-of-thousands of Canadians from voting for the NDP, Liberals, Greens, etc. But efforts to help people to register to vote are not as strong as they could be. There needs to be close co-operation among groups to make sure that as many people as possible - particularly people in some 70 ridings where the Conservatives are vulnerable - have the identification they need to vote.
  36. 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    The 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal (also known as the Robocall scandal, Robogate, or RoboCon) is a political scandal stemming from events during the 2011 Canadian federal election. It involved robocalls and real-person calls that were designed to result in voter suppression.
  37. What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
  38. Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
    When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
  39. Worthington provokes election controversy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
    The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.

Experts on Federal Elections in the Sources Directory

  1. Fair Vote Canada
  2. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance


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