Once again, the largest voting block in Canada is - BY FAR - the group that stayed at home. This is a massive rebuke of Canada's bullshit obscure electoral system that stifles new voices, crushes innovation, obliterates diversity and exaggerates support for two dinosaur parties.
2. According to this article, "experts" are seeking answers. 😹
4. We have a choice as a country. We can choose to tolerate our mediocre / bland political landscape that bores us all to death with lack of choice, puppet MPs, teleprompted macho "leaders", distorted results and exaggerated regionalism. Or we can choose to evolve.
1. This is the most important thread I've written in years. Please RT. Two years ago, London City Council became the first government in Canada to ditch First-Past-the-Post. The results were astounding. Take a moment to watch this short video:
2. Next week, @UnlockCanada is launching a brand new report about London's historic experiment. The report, #LondonLeads, is the product of months of research, and years of advocacy. RSVP here: bit.ly/3o0jCEm
3. I'll be joined by an INCREDIBLE line-up of voices from London, including the City Clerk, the city's first female Black councillor, two deputy mayors, the President of @ULLdn and the MPP who started it all!
1. A short thread for anyone in Ontario who cares about road safety, tourism, natural beauty, light pollution, astronomy, mental health, lobbyist accountability, wildlife habitat, democracy, and/or death. First, a headline: toronto.ctvnews.ca/ford-wants-to-…
2. Quick background: While some states + provinces allow corporate billboards to line their highways, @ONtransport has, for decades, protected all 400-series highways from billboards. From Windsor to Cornwall, Toronto to Parry Sound, you'll mostly see farmland and forest.
3. This is a far cry from what you'll find in other jurisdictions who don't protect their scenic corridors. It can get pretty ugly. (And once their up, they never come down. Prevention is the key here. 🔑)
@PkgWholesalers@amazonca 2. When the delivery arrived at my door, it was a box of Chocolate Sea Salt Granola packets.
@PkgWholesalers@amazonca 3. I was frustrated, but mistakes happen. So I went onto @amazonca and saw that I could send the package back, for free! I clicked on the "wrong item shipped" button, and asked them to re-ship the correct item.
Welcome to the 13th edition of #LegoMyVote! Today, we're looking at Canada's 2019 federal election. We'll start with the popular vote. Here's how Canadians actually voted at the ballot box:
And here's how that same chart looks, if we add all the registered voters who decided to NOT participate at all:
Despite the NDP getting way more votes than the Bloc, the Conservatives getting more votes than the Liberals, and the Greens getting more than a million votes... the distorted results under First Past the Post look like this:
1. Eight years ago I produced a graph showing how Toronto's post-amalgamation population size, in comparison to the number of City Council wards, leaves us with a crisis of under-representation:
2. This is the commentary that accompanied the graph:
3. Now our Premier wants to cut that representation in half, turning a crisis into a nightmare. thestar.com/news/queenspar…