Why current politicians like the current voting system, and how STV will actually make you heard!
www.stv.ca

Go vote on this next Tuesday! http://www.elections.bc.ca/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhccpzI4lbQ

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This is our change people, change this stupid FPTP system of ours in favour of STV! We need you to go say BC-STV at the vote next Tuesday!

Great comparison here
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2009/04/28/BC-STV/

BC-STV needs your support in the election! Let's get a system that actually cares how we vote.

http://stv.ca/benefits

how they count the voteshttp://www.gov.bc.ca/referendum_info/

This is the good demo I've been looking for; couldn't find it for a while for some reason

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/bcvotes2009/stv.html

From Green Party newsletter ( Read more... )

Anti-Coal Day on Capitol Hill
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=3362
12000 gather in DC to protest coal power and growing carbon emissions

Imagine if we got 1200 in Ottawa

If we don't get these conservatives out, how do we get pass this ( Read more... )

Electoral dysfunction, yet again

Greens deserved more than 20 seats - voting system also punished New Democrats, western Liberals and urban Conservatives

Once again, Canada’s antiquated first-past-the-post system wasted millions of votes, distorted results, severely punished large blocks of voters, exaggerated regional differences, ( Read more... )

Dion, probably again not expecting it to air, but it went out live: "The last network I want to speak to first would be CTV"

Uhjal Dosangj, responding to probing by the CTV interviewer about blaming Dion for collapse of Liberals in BC.  He actually stood up well and told the truth about the fear mongering and misresentation the Conservatives ( Read more... )

In actually, very little, for now. The only industries it will hurt are the polluting industries. All the rest of us, they are cutting income taxes quiet a bit ( Read more... )