Its Bill Tielemen vs. UBC’s own Anthony Hodgson for this wednesday night at 7 p.m. at Creative Individual Studio (#110 60 East 5th Avenue) in a BC-STV debate hosted by COPE. What can we say except “Go get ’em Tony!”
If anyone can make it to the debate and would like to post up a review of how it went let me know or post to the comments.
Arthur Klassen has a good post (Non-random Notes: BC STV — Sometimes re-runs are a good thing) about why its not such a bad thing to ask the public the same question a second time, especially when the answer (ie. “Yes we want a fair voting system”) could start to fix so many problems in our democracy.
The ‘No’ side of the BC-STV campaign has been using its public funds to conduct polls in preparation for their advertising campaign. This in itself isn’t surprising, unfortunately, neither are the “questions” they are asking. It sounds like the questions are negative questions about hypothetical information that happens to be false. Questions such as “How would you feel about BC-STV if you knew <something horrible about BC-STV that isn’t true>.” Some people call this push polling, other people call it politics as usual.
Dear Ms. Petty,
One of your guests this morning, while discussing Michael Ignatieff’s new focus on the west, mentioned the failure of the Green party to win a seat in recent elections. While acknowledging that the Green party was the only one to gain new votes he simultaneously dismissed all green (small “g”) voters by saying that Elizabeth May had not done enough to “excite the population” about the green agenda. This is hogwash and you should have called him on it. Read the rest of this entry »
Thanks to everyone who came out and helped organize the Referendum Of A Liftetime info session this afternoon in the Norm Theatre. Thanks especially to all our speakers Stephen Owen, Jane Sterk and Craig Henschel as well as Dan Grice from the campaign. In case you missed it I was livetweeting the whole event, you can find it by looking up #roal on twitter. Read the rest of this entry »
People are joing the STV fold every day. Read this great post over at National Politick for an easy to understand explanation of BC-STV and its benefits over other fair voting systems. Read the rest of this entry »
This Thursday May 26, 12-2 in the Norm Theatre, find out more about the May 12 referendum and how you can help revitalize our democracy.
Read more here. RSVP on Facebook!
Update :
I’m thinking of livetweeting the Referendum of a Lifetime info session tomorrow, would anyone find that useful who will be there or who won’t? I was just going to create a running stream of highlights about the session on twitter, you can follow along, join the discussion or send in questions from home.
I’ll tag all posts with #bcstv #roal for Referendum Of A Liftetime starting Thursday at noon.
Lá Fhéile Phádraig Sona Duit !
(that’s Happy St. Patrick’s Day in Gaelic)
Tuesday March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, the national day of celebration of all things Irish in memory of its patron saint, St. Patrick. I wonder what St. Pat would think Read the rest of this entry »
In this excellent article, Nick Loenen explains how FPTP encourages confrontational politics with winners and losers, whereas BC-STV would promote more civilized discourse, and enourage politicians to work together for the common good!
Fair Vote UBC 