Riding Revamp Risk.. 'Shocking' Robocalls Poll.. MP $$$

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Tory Rules May Sideline Canadians From Major Revamp Of Ridings, Critics Say Canadians risk being sidelined from a major reconfiguration of the country's electoral map by new rules brought in by the governing Tories that limit public consultation and dramatically accelerate the pace of the process, critics say. 'Shocking' Robocalls Poll Released Ignatieff Slammed, Backpedals Over Quebec Remarks Federal Tories Stunned By Wildrose Loss Bev Oda's Not The Top Tory Spender Vikileaks Creator Insists He Acted Alone BLOG POSTS Mark Crowley: Would a More Fair Voting System Have Changed Alberta's Election? Monday's election results in Alberta demonstrate once again the strange outcomes that our First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) voting system can create. A difference in vote percentage between 43 per cent and 34 per cent leads to 61 v.s. 17 seats for the PCs. How many distorted election results of this kind do we need to see before we admit we need a change to our voting system? Hon. Carolyn Bennett: Hiding Behind Your Ethnicity isn't the Answer to Aboriginal Health Cuts, Minister Monday in Question Period I asked the Minister of Health a simple question about why the Aboriginal community continues to face budget cuts. In response, the minister accused me of crossing the racial line in my questioning. But evidence doesn't lie. Romeo Vitelli: Can Letters Prevent Military Suicides? To help curb the rising military suicide rate, a new pilot project has been established that involves sending brief letters to discharged inpatients considered to be at high risk for suicide following hospitalization. So how successful is the pilot project? The results were recently published in the journal Crisis. Max and Monique Nemni: Trudeau Transformed In advance of the awarding of the annual $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing this Wednesday, HuffPost Canada will be running excerpts from the five finalists. Today's is from authors Max and Monique Nemni's Trudeau Transformed, which promises to cause readers "to re-think much of what we thought we knew about the intellectual development of Canada's legendary Prime Minister between the pro-fascist sympathies of his youth to his entry into federal politics." Theo Caldwell: It's Mitt Romney, for Better or Worse Unless Romney's anodyne economic policies and milquetoast pronouncements are masking a robust agenda of true reform, he will mostly likely lower expectations of the office while managing America's decline. Even so, he beats the alternative.

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