In February 2025, Ontario’s first-past-the-post voting system gave a single party with 43% of the vote 100% of the power. Voter turnout was 45.4%, meaning a “majority” government was elected by less ...

Goose Media (aka The Goose) is a satirical social media project created by Aaron Hagey-MacKay that focuses on climate and related issues from a Canadian perspective.

A Citizens’ Assembly is a non-partisan, independent body that makes recommendations to the legislature. Learning about the proportional systems, including how they can be tailored for Canada, requires ...

Under Mixed Member Proportional (MMP), voters elect local MPs as they do now, plus a team of regional ones to make the overall results proportional in each region. MMP was recommended by the Law ...

NOTE: When people hear the term “ranked ballot” they often think of the winner-take-all ranked ballot system. This system, properly called Alternative Vote, just pastes a ranked ballot onto our ...

Most cities in Canada use first-past-the-post or block voting (first-past-the-post for multiple at-large seats). This does not produce a city council that reflects the diversity of the community. Many ...

Only 43% of Ontario voters supported the PCs, yet the voting system has handed Doug Ford’s PCs 64.5 % of the seats and 100% of the power. The election results were a gross misrepresentation of what ...

In addition to the support of the NDP, Green Party and Bloc MPs, 39 Liberals and 3 Conservatives voted for the motion. To see how your MP voted, scroll to the bottom of this email. While it’s ...

“He said he should have immediately shut down talk about proportional representation…” and “confessed Liberals were deliberately vague in order to appeal to Fair Vote Canada advocates.” - Toronto Star ...

Which Liberal leadership candidates will listen to Canadians and do something useful? A national poll of Canadians asking about support for proportional representation was conducted by EKOS Research ...

As Chantal Hebert noted during CBC’s election night coverage, “I think this is what it looks like when you have a two-party system.” The results of this election demonstrate, once again, that Canada’s ...