“When Zack Taylor of the University of Toronto Cities Centre did a little number crunching recently, his worst suspicions were confirmed: It seems some parts of the city are a whole lot more democratic than others” – thestar.com http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1140794–fixing-toronto-s-democratic-deficit This news article calls into question democracy as it is practiced in Toronto, and then by […]

To do this assignment, I poked around mostly Canadian political blogs, but the thing that struck me the most was the amount of American politics which permeated them. For most, the ratio between Canadian and American issues was nearly 50/50! Why is this? Is it because American politics are more important, or simply because they are more […]