From Fair Vote Simcoe County Fair Vote Simcoe invites you to join us for a Public Forum on Electoral Reform Special Guest Bruce Stanton, MP for Simcoe North Other Guests Kelly Carmichael, Fair Vote Canada Executive Director Representatives of the Green, Liberal and NDP parties Tuesday May 20, 2014 7-...
from MPAC website In support of this year’s municipal and school board elections, MPAC has partnered with its stakeholders to launch voterlookup.ca, a website where potential electors can confirm and/or update their information in a few easy steps. voterlookup.ca allows electors to take an active rol...
By Jacob Kearey-Moreland Orillia Packet & Times The Orwellian-named Fair Elections Act, while on the surface appearing to disenfranchise Canadian non-Conservative voters and, in other ways, advancing the interests of its authors, seems to have as its underlying driving force an attempt to undermi...
King Weekly Sentinel The future of Ontario’s protected green spaces may very well depend on the fate of three very important pieces of legislation. To that end, the Concerned Citizens of King Township (CCKT), with support of other concerned environmental groups, is hosting a presentation and round-t...
BY STEVEN SHRYBMAN, OTTAWA CITIZEN On Feb 4, the federal government tabled Bill C-23, the Fair Elections Act, to amend the Canada Elections Act. Unfortunately, the amendments, if passed, will do little to curtail the type of electoral fraud that took place during the May 2011 federal election. What t...
Election postponed after Kramp, Hill challenge proxy voting practice By Sandy Agnew Business as usual at Severn Sound Environmental Association is not good enough for Midland Deputy Mayor Stephan Kramp and Orillia Councillor Andrew Hill. They challenged the procedure to elect the SSEA Chair and Vice-...
New Tecumseth Free Press January 24, 2014 Simcoe County council’s first draft Code of Conduct presented in November to its governance committee then sent back to staff for further revisions, is back on the agenda January 28 including an amendment that would allow “occasional or incidental...
Let’s put Ontario Ombudsman André Marin in charge of investigating back-room municipal meetings and needless secrecy, not just for some cities, but for all Toronto Star Editorial Fairness demands that public business be conducted in the open, for all to see, but some municipal councils still indulge...
Municipalities in Ontario are allowed to appoint anybody they’d like to investigate secret meetings, leading to what Ombudsman Andre Marin calls a “patchwork” system where governments can ditch investigators they disagree with By Tim Alamenciak Toronto Star In the City of Brampton, a complaint about ...
Global News TORONTO –Amalgamating Toronto, Scarborough, York, North York, East York, and Etobicoke has cost taxpayers more money, not less, according to new research out of the University of Western Ontario. But it’s unclear what caused those increased costs. Western University professor Timothy Cobb...
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