If, like me, you are following your federal candidates on Twitter, you are receiving tweets that help you make a decision. Yesterday, I received a tweet from Dave Nickle, the NDP candidate in my riding, Peterborough-Kawartha, asking me How do you want YOUR Canada to be? Tell the Dave Nickle Campaign team by filling out the… Read more »
There will be a federal election on October 19th, and eligible Canadians will vote to choose members of parliament from 338 electoral districts (ridings) in Canada because as former Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley explains, “Candidates run – not political parties.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be a candidate in one of the electoral districts;… Read more »
Just in time for the anticipated announcement of an October federal election, Evidence for Democracy has launched True North Smart and Free: a new website with a series of short, engaging, shareable stories that documents changes to how science is collected, communicated, and used in federal policy decision-making and what this means for Canadians. Evidence for… Read more »
Here is the updated list of questions to ask the federal candidates in your riding: Do you support the right to freedom from religion as well as the right to freedom of religion? Do you support secular governance, i.e. separation between religion and state? Do you support removing the phrase “the supremacy of God” from… Read more »
The Canadian federal election is tentatively scheduled for October 19, 2015, and at least one candidate is setting up her campaign headquarters, so this is a good time to start making a list of questions to ask the federal candidates in your riding. Here is a partial list: Do you support abolishing Canada’s Blasphemy Law?… Read more »