Western Context

A special episode where we rundown major electoral systems in use today. We have a look at first past the post, all the methods of proportional representation, and we cap it off with a primer of the American Electoral College.

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Duration: 46:23
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• First Past the Post
• Forms of Proportional Representation
• The Electoral College

The BC Government sets the questions for the electoral referendum, The Ontario PCs win a majority, and BQ leader Martine Ouellet resigns causing uncertainty in Quebec. Also, a lack of information on the military’s supposed shortfall of sleeping bags.

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Duration: 45:06
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• B.C. cabinet confirms format of electoral reform referendum
• We have taken back Ontario’: Doug Ford leads PCs to majority government
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• Embattled Bloc Québécois leader Martine Ouellet resigns
• Soldiers ordered to return sleeping bags, rucksacks due to ‘shortfall of equipment’
• Word of the Week: Majority

The BC NDP isn’t giving info on the electoral referendum, the U of A gives an honorary degree to David Suzuki, and the federal government blacks out the cost of a carbon tax. Also, the federal government is funding groups that want to stop Trans Mountain.

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Duration: 42:36
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Vaughn Palmer: NDP stacking the deck in favour of proportional representation
• U of A dean posts scathing letter against granting honorary degree to David Suzuki
• Tories demand government explain how much a carbon price will cost Canadians
• Federal program funds summer job to help ‘stop Kinder Morgan pipeline’
• Word of the Week: Hypocrisy

Alberta’s NDP government released a fiscal update that looked rosy but is not, the BC NDP government created an electoral reform survey to sway opinion despite appearing “neutral”, and we cover Finance Minister Morneau’s continuing clash with ethics.

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Duration: 36:15
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• As economy improves, Alberta’s NDP government says it’s time to cut spending
• Mike Smyth: NDP and Greens stack the deck in referendum vote
• Bill Morneau threatens to take Tories to court over ethics allegations
• Word of the Week: Ethics

Terrorism comes to Edmonton. Also, electoral reform in BC, an AB NDP MLA leaves caucus, Jagmeet Singh wins the federal NDP race, Energy East is now dead, Ottawa spends too much on legal fees, and the BBC notes our Holocaust memorial’s Jewish omission.

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Duration: 1:04:28
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Edmonton Police Officers and Pedestrians Struck in Edmonton Terrorist Attack
• NDP announces B.C. referendum on proportional representation
• Karen McPherson Leaves NDP Caucus
• Jagmeet Singh wins NDP leadership race
• TransCanada terminates plan for Energy East pipeline
• Ottawa spent $110K in legal fees fighting First Nations girl over $6K dental procedure
• Canada forgets to mention Jewish people at Holocaust memorial
• Word of the Week: terrorism

An official admission from the Trudeau government that electoral reform is off the table, Alberta is contemplating accepting more refugees, and a win for the Site C dam. Plus, a rundown of the media coverage following the Quebec City mosque shooting.

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Duration: 32:52

• Trudeau abandons electoral reform, breaking key campaign promise
• Alberta would accept more refugees if Ottawa lifts cap, says Premier Notley
• Site C dam win for Hydro as a native veto rejected by B.C. Court of Appeal
• Quebec City shooting: What we know, what we don’t know
• Word of the Week: Right

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On this first episode of The Right Side we discuss the future of democracy in Canada, unity in Alberta, and what budget deficits mean for each and every citizen.

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Duration: 32:48

• Most Canadians like current voting system, Liberals’ electoral reform survey finds
• Official Government of Canada Report
• Justin Trudeau the Boy Scout must settle into Donald Trump’s world
• Wildrose leader Brian Jean “prepared to stop down” and run for a merged Alberta conservative party
• Message from Brian Jean on Consolidating Conservatives (YouTube)
• Vancouver set to lose more gas stations amid boom in real estate
• Feds post another monthly deficit as 2016-17 deficit hits $12.7B after 8 months
• Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper forecasting tiny deficits.

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