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THE WEAVER Fall Equinox 2020 Edition
THE WEAVER Fall Equinox 2020 Edition A Publication of the Saskatchewan Green Party “We are the sun. We are the wind. We are the new day About to begin.” DG “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.” Noam Chomsky TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE # 1. Introduction 2 2. A Message from Our Leader 2 3. Some Thoughts on Left and Right 3-4 4. Saskatchewan Parents Deserve Better 5 5. Editorial: Help Our Heroes Help Us 5-6 6. Public Health Calling for a Green, Healthy and Just Recovery (Media Release) 6-7 7. Takeover (A Poem) 7 8. Stop the Freeway – Save the Swale! 8-9 9. Germany Gets Both: No Nuclear, Less CO2 9-11 10. The Green Movement Then and Now (Part Two) 11-15 11. We Still Need the Marxist (A Poem) 15 12. A New Story for Humanity (A Film Review) 16 13. A Glimpse of a Darker Future (A Book Review) 16-17 14. Fall Calendar of Days of Reflection and Commemoration 17-19 The Saskatchewan Green Party: https://www.saskgreen.ca/ THE WEAVER Fall Equinox 2020 Edition INTRODUCTION A MESSAGE FROM OUR LEADER by Dave Greenfield Hello Green Friends, Welcome to the Fall Equinox 2020 issue of the Weaver. This issue offers an informative range of 2020 has seen incredible growth and rejuvenation articles and related works furthering the building of within our party. We have a slate of great candidates a green and progressive political culture in heading into the fall election. -
List of Candidates by Electoral District and Individual Results Liste Des Candidats Par Circonscription Et Résultats Individuels
Thirty-seventh general election 2000: TABLE 12/TABLEAU 12 Trente-septième élection générale 2000 : Official voting results Résultats officiels du scrutin List of candidates by electoral district and individual results Liste des candidats par circonscription et résultats individuels Votes obtained Majority * Electoral district Candidate and affiliation Place of residence Occupation - - - - - - Votes obtenus Majorité * Circonscription Candidat et appartenance Lieu de résidence Profession No./Nbre % No./Nbre % Newfoundland/Terre-Neuve Bonavista--Trinity--Conception Brian Tobin (Lib.) St. John's, Nfld./T.-N. Politician/Politicien 22,096 54.4 11,087 27.3 Jim Morgan (P.C./P.-C.) Cupids, Nfld./T.-N. Businessman/Homme d'affaires 11,009 27.1 Fraser March (N.D.P./N.P.D.) Blaketown, Nfld./T.-N. Self-employed/Travailleur indépendant 6,473 15.9 Randy Wayne Dawe (Alliance) Clarke's Beach, Nfld./T.-N. Businessman/Homme d'affaires 1,051 2.6 Burin--St. George's Bill Matthews (Lib.) ** Mount Pearl, Nfld./T.-N. Parliamentarian/Parlementaire 14,603 47.5 6,712 21.8 Sam Synard (NIL) Marystown, Nfld./T.-N. Educator/Éducateur 7,891 25.7 Fred Pottle (P.C./P.-C.) Kippens, Nfld./T.-N. Businessman/Homme d'affaires 5,798 18.9 Peter Fenwick (Alliance) Cape St. George, Nfld./T.-N. Journalist/Journaliste 1,511 4.9 David Sullivan (N.D.P./N.P.D.) Torbay, Nfld./T.-N. Teacher/Enseignant 924 3.0 Gander--Grand Falls George Baker (Lib.) ** Gander, Nfld./T.-N. Parliamentarian/Parlementaire 15,874 55.0 7,683 26.6 Roger K. Pike (P.C./P.-C.) Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld./T.-N. -
Approval Voting with Cluster Seats
APPROVAL VOTING WITH CLUSTER SEATS (AV/CS) A Non-Competitive Voting System for Ontario (Presentation to the Ontario Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform) Chris Bradshaw, Ottawa, Ontario, January 15, 2007 INTRODUCTION: I have been interested in voting systems since I attended university – where we elected our student council using something called “fractional redistribution” – and since coming to Ottawa in 1969 and experiencing a voting system which allowed citizens to vote for two ward-council candidates and for four board of controllers. More recently, I have been active in the Green Party, which has championed alternative voting systems that would reduce strategic voting that Greens feel deprive it of votes, let alone any chance of electing MLAs. I have a degree in political science and worked most of my life doing public consultation in municipal planning. Also, I have run provincially twice, in 1999 and 2003, in the Ottawa Centre seat, finishing with the highest % of votes of any GPO candidate both times. I am not, however, speaking for the party tonight. It was the old City of Ottawa voting experience that is at the basis of the system I propose today. On the one hand, it preventing voters from marking more names than there were seats to be filled, but, on the other, candidates and their supporters urged voters to mark fewer names, a practice called “plumping.” Why should a voter’s ballot be declared ‘spoiled’ if they marked more choices than permitted, but not if they voted for fewer? How many voters marked more names than seats and effectively lost their voting franchise? In fact, why would we devise a voting system that would declare any ballots spoiled? Does marking more than one co-equal choice give that voter more (read undemocratic) power than another voter marking fewer than allowed? No, since marking extra choices simply dilutes one’s vote, while still adhering to the democratic principle of voter fairness: no voter should be able to affect the relative standing between the candidates by more than a unit of one. -
Green Party of Canada
Green Party of Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Green Party of Canada Active Federal Party Founded 1983 Leader Jim Harris President Bruce Abel Headquarters Box 997 Station B Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5R1 Political ideology Green, eco-capitalist International alignment Global Greens Colours Green Website http://www.greenparty.ca/ The Green Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. It does not have any members in the Canadian House of Commons. Contents [hide] • 1 Current status • 2 History o 2.1 Beginning o 2.2 1980s o 2.3 1990s o 2.4 Joan Russow's leadership 1997–2001 o 2.5 Jim Harris' leadership 2003-present . 2.5.1 Full slate . 2.5.2 2004 election and aftermath . 2.5.3 2006 election • 3 Internet innovation • 4 Policy direction • 5 Policies • 6 Membership exclusions • 7 Current policy debates • 8 Election results • 9 Leaders • 10 Affiliations • 11 Provincial and Territorial Green parties • 12 See also • 13 External links [edit] Current status In the 2006 federal election, the Green Party received about 4.5% of the popular vote, virtually the same percentage as in 2004, despite having received public funding (over $CDN 1 million per year) for the first time and receiving more media coverage than ever before. In the 2004 federal election, the Green Party fielded candidates in all 308 of the nation's ridings and received 4.3% of the popular vote. In the 2000 election, it fielded candidates in 111 of the then 301 ridings. Under Canada's first past the post electoral system, no Green Party candidate has ever been elected to the federal or provincial level in Canada.