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The Story of Vote Better
A report back on our community's work on electoral reform over the last year and a half
June 1, 2017
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Help Us Bring ER Back
The Liberals have announced that they will not be following through on their election promise to replace our broken first-past-the-post electoral system. But we aren't giving up. Read on for updates on how you can help #BringERBack.
February 8, 2017
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Results of the My Democracy survey and next steps
What came out of the government's MyDemocracy.ca, and what's coming up for the Vote Better campaign.
January 25, 2017
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Keeping the commitment to making every vote count
Over the last week and a half, the Leadnow community responded to what the media called a ‘trial balloon’ from the Prime Minister. Both PM Trudeau and Minister Monsef have said that they aren’t sure they’ve heard strongly that Canadians want these changes, and that they won’t move ahead without ‘broad support’.[2-3]
The Leadnow community thinks that the government should stay strongly committed to this promise - and here’s why
November 1, 2016
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Reporting Back on Vote Better: May - October
With the consultation era on voting reform now over, we're looking back at all the things that the Leadnow community accomplished together over the last few months.
October 18, 2016
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Voting Systems Part 4: Rural-Urban Proportional
Over the last few weeks, there has been another system floated by our friends at Fair Vote Canada in response to a similar suggestion by former Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley. The model that Fair Vote is proposing is called ‘Rural-Urban Proportional’. This is how it works:
September 28, 2016
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Summary of the Vancouver Youth Town Hall
On September 27th, we co-hosted a youth town hall on voting reform with the UBC Political Science Students Association. Here's a summary of what went down.
September 28, 2016
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Join us at a youth town hall!
Leadnow is kicking off a week of youth voting reform town halls today - check out what's coming up!
September 27, 2016
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Leadnow at the Voting Reform Consultations
Over the last few weeks the Leadnow community has been attending voting reform consultations across the country - this is what we've seen and heard so far.
September 13, 2016
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Leadnow at the Electoral Reform Committee
A report back on the speech we delivered on August 30th, 2016 to the Special Committee on Electoral Reform (ERRE) with a video and transcript of the actual speech itself.
August 31, 2016