Consensus Government & Dissolving the Legislature in Northwest Territories
Wildfires Prompt a Special Sitting of the Legislative Assembly In August 2023, the skies turned an ominous orange over large swathes of the Northwest Territories as gargantuan wildfires gobbled up...
View ArticleNorthwest Territories Delays Its General Election to Mid-November
The Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories convened in Inuvik – above the latitudinal treeline and thus away from the fires – on 28 August, though most MLAs had logged on remotely via Zoom...
View ArticleAnthony Rota Resigns in Disgrace as Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
A Politician’s Propensity toward Platitude Destroys His Career After Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, addressed a joint sitting of the House of Commons and Senate on Thursday, 21...
View ArticleJean Chrétien Shawinigan-Handshakes Canadian History
On 23 October, Jean Chrétien sat for an interview with Daniel Thibault of Radio-Canada to mark the 30th anniversary of the general election of 1993, in which he led the Liberals to victory and the...
View ArticleFixed-Date Election Laws and Voter Turnout
British Columbia became the first province to adopt fixed-date election laws in 2001, and the law first took effect for the province’s general election of 2005. Newfoundland and Labrador followed suit...
View ArticleQuebec Acknowledges Saskatchewan’s Unilateral Constitutional Amendment in Its...
On 14 November 2023, the Government of Quebec updated its administrative consolidation of the Constitution Acts to what should be its 4th edition and recognised a constitutional amendment that the...
View ArticleBritish Columbia & Ontario Would Each Already Gain 1 New MP under the Latest...
The House of Commons will expand yet further in 2031 once the Population Estimates for 1 July 2031 become available. On 19 December 2023, Statistics Canada’s most recent population estimates for 1...
View ArticleThe Gerrymander of 1882
If Canadians think of electoral redistribution at all, they might hold this vague notion that Canada eliminated partisan gerrymandering by delegating the task from politicians to independent boundaries...
View ArticleHappy Belated National Flag of Canada Day!
While I was looking at the proposals of the first iteration of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commissions published in part I of the Canada Gazette in 1965, an unusual splash of colour amidst the...
View ArticleMimetic & Mendacious Mirth: The Secret to Jean Chretien’s Political Success...
The accolades poured in for Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003, as he became a nonagenarian in January. They came even from some unlikely sources, such as former Conservative...
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