Alison Lam for Richmond Hill
Green Party of Canada

From Maduro’s Authoritarianism to Trump’s Insatiable Greed When I woke up this morning, the first thing I did was message a dear friend, asking how she was doing. “Ahorita buscando agua y enlatados,” she told me. I asked if she was safe. She answered, “Las bombas cayeron cerca pero solo movio el edificio.” Then came a series of devastating videos of smoke, fire, sirens and explosions. Not exactly your regular early morning conversation, but for today, probably one that countl

While Canadians, along with many other “democratic” societies, believe that we live in an environment with a fair and just electoral system, it is clear upon deeper inspection that the system actually changes the way citizens and voters think and feel about democracy and politics. A flawed electoral system doesn’t just skew results, it rewires our understanding of what is considered to be democratic.