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Original Tyee reporting. Takes from other media and blogs. Visit early and often for your politics fix.
Political blogging, Tyee style.
Strategists for the B.C. Green Party and Marijuana Party are huddling. Want to know why? Read The Tyee’s new Election Central blog from today to May 17 and you’ll be on top of all the campaign issues, insights and scuttlebutt.
There are more than a few blogs tracking B.C. politics. We call ours a ‘superblog’ because it folds together all of this:
- Regular postings by politically savvy Barbara McLintock, Will McMartin, Scott Deveau, Heather Ramsay, Tom Barrett, Tom Hawthorn, Steve Burgess and many more Tyee regular contributors.
- Cues to The Tyee’s latest in-depth election news stories and analysis.
- Updates on what other media are saying, other bloggers are posting.
- The opportunity for you to not only comment but submit blog items to Election Central managing editor Monte Paulsen (monte@thetyee.ca).
Centrepiece of larger section
The Election Central blog is the centerpiece to The Tyee’s Election Central section. Go there from The Tyee’s main page, or go straight to www.electioncentral.ca, and you’ll also find:
- Battleground BC (Will McMartin’s exclusive seat projection model. As fortunes shift in ridings around the province, He updates his riding by riding forecasts and analysis, updated as fortunes shift in).
- The Spin (all the press releases from the four leading parties).
- Politics Reported Elsewhere (links to election reports and views from other publications).
Need your political fix more than once a day? You’ll get it at Election Central. Expect more special features to be added in coming days. And don’t hesitate to pass along tips, links, and news from your corner of BC. Send it to Election Central Managing Editor Monte Paulsen at: monte@thetyee.ca
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dangrice.com
7 years ago
Comments on "Tyee Launches ‘Superblog’ for Ele
Are you looking for blogs:
Political Pages with Feeds:
http://www.bcmp.blogspot.com/
http://www.stvforbc.com
Personal Blogs in Election Mode:
http://ainge.typepad.com/
http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2004/11/21/53/
http://www.practicalmetaphors.com/archives/000082.html
http://www.brokenshire.ca/blog/
http://shannondavis.blogspot.com/2005/02/miss-know-it-alls-guide-to-stv.html
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dangrice.com
7 years ago
http://www.stvforbcvoteyes.blogspot.com
dearpremier.ca
7 years ago
commentor: Will
posted: 03-31-2005
Jean: On April 18, 1989, then-B.C. Supreme Court chief justice, Beverly MacLachlin, issued a decision on a suit filed by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, which claimed that the province's electoral boundaries violated section 15(1) of Canada's Constitution Act, 1982. That section states, in part, "Every individual is equal before and under the law...." (It is a central feature of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.) Ms. MacLachlin found that the province's electoral boundaries, which featured several two-member ridings and had huge population disparities between ridings, indeed contravened Canada's constitution: the votes of some British Columbians had more weight than the votes of others, and therefore were not equal. She wrote that an appropriate remedy for the problem was found in the report of the Fisher Commission (a royal commission earlier appointed by the Vander Zalm government to propose new electoral boundaries), which recommended a plus-minus variance of 25% from the 'electoral quota.' You're right, B.C. has its own Constitution Act (which is a provincial statute), but I was referring to Canada's Constitution Act, 1982. Will
commentor: dearpremier.caposted: 03-31-2005
Well thanks Will,
But it seems she's changed her mind since then. - Jean
See Reference re Prov. Electoral Boundaries (Sask.), [1991] 2 S.C.R. 158;
MacLachlin
C. The Meaning of the Right to Vote
It is my conclusion that the purpose of the right to vote enshrined in s. 3 of the Charter is not equality of voting power per se, but the right to "effective representation". Ours is a representative democracy. Each citizen is entitled to be represented in government. Representation comprehends the idea of having a voice in the deliberations of government as well as the idea of the right to bring one's grievances and concerns to the attention of one's government representative; as noted in Dixon v. B.C. (A.G.), [1989] 4 W.W.R. 393, at p. 413, elected representatives function in two roles -- legislative and what has been termed the "ombudsman role".