I am a candidate to nominations for the Green Party of Canada in Ottawa-Vanier. I am an open source software advocate with a B.A.Sc. Software Engineering. If you wish to have a candidate in the next federal election in Ottawa that will strongly advocate for fair copyright reform and free culture, I encourage you to come at the nomination on March 3rd (coordinates below) and vote for me. The other candidate(s) to this nomination are not familiar with copyright policy.
The nomination date, time & location of the Ottawa-Vanier nominations have been confirmed:
Date: Monday March 3rd
Time: Registration at 19:00, meeting starts at 19:30
Location: Sandy Hill Community Center, 250 Somerset St. East (corner of Nelson)
Membership deadline: February 18th
The discussion over C-22, a bill that would give Ontario an unfair amount of seats, overshadows the discussion of what truly constitutes fairness in voting system.
Just recently I stumbled upon an opinion piece written by Mr. Solomon that appeared in the Financial Post (http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=133508&p=1). In it, Mr. Solomon, like many defenders of First-Past-The-Post, equates fairness with proportional geographic seat distribution.
But the real confusion lies in his defense of “one person-one vote”. (more…)
I have the same approach. The message I want to bring to Ottawa-Vanier is that sustainability is an oppertunity for creating jobs and renewing our cities. I’m keeping my speach a secret until the nominations though :-).
Help me bring this message to Ottawa-Vanier. Vote for me at the March 4th nominations (sooner if an election is called).
If you are not a Green Party of Canada member, you can join on-line or contact me.
The Green Party of Canada released today its Vision Green. The policy document lays out the plan for the kind of Canada we want in 2020 and how we get to that point. It is a breath of fresh air and provides visionary leadership, not for the next four year, but for the next forty years. Here are some of the solutions addressing the various issues it covers: (more…)
“Pour un grand nombre d’étudiantes et d’étudiants, les résultats de l’élection d’aujourd’hui ont été éclipsés par l’intérêt dans la défaite potentielle du nouveau système électoral à représentation proportionnelle mixte proposé lors du référendum pan-provincial. “Un sondage récent a démontré que 67 pour cent des électrices et électeurs de moins de 35 ans appuyaient le nouveau système électoral, a dit Hassum. Les jeunes électrices et électeurs espèrent toujours un résultat positif dans le référendum sur la réforme électorale. Les étudiantes et étudiants croient que le système électoral RPM amènera une plus grande équité et diversité ainsi qu’une représentation proportionnelle adéquate au sein de la législature.”
Alex Cullen’s report on the 2006 municipal elections is available on the web. What is really interesting is page 12 of the report:
“What this list shows is that 11 out of 23 members of Council elected in 2006 depended on corporate contributions to fund at least half of their election campaign - and they were all incumbent.”
Mr. Cullen will bring his report to the Corporate Services & Economic Development Committee where the public will have the chance to input & lobby for electoral reform. Given that residential developpers often don’t think about how to build sustainably since it will cut the speed at which they get their return on investment, I see cutting corporate financing of municipal campaigns as essential to achieve sustainability.