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Democracy is like a video game, umbrella, pie: youth videos

By Andrew MacLeod December 9, 2009 01:25 pm

The winning entry in a British Columbia government video contest about democracy focused on themes of equality, individuality and freedom.

Other entries compared democracy to a video game, an umbrella and a pie.

A video game because “You get to choose who you are.” An umbrella because it “shields you from persecution” and lets you live a more comfortable life. And a pie because, “It doesn't matter what's in the pie, but who makes the pie. That is democracy.”

While the winning entry, created by students at Burnaby North Secondary School, will be used on the websites of Elections B.C. and the Legislative Assembly, all ten entries can be viewed on facebook.

Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria. Reach him here.

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The British Columbia legislature resumes sitting this week, but not before Premier Christy Clark outlined her spring agenda in an appearance on the Vancouver radio station where she used to work in what was pitched as a replacement for the throne speech. That agenda amounted to staying the course: focus on the economy, no money for teachers or anything else, and no higher taxes.

This from a premier who won the leadership of her party on a "change" platform. Perhaps appropriate then that the government didn't bother with a more formal speech from the throne at a time when polls suggest an increasing number of people are wondering if the premier's going to, as they say, piss or get off the pot.

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