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  1. Beyond Voting
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    By all means vote if you feel like it. But don’t stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
  2. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
    Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
  3. The Buzz Hargrove election controversy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    We aren't obligated to vote NDP no matter what the circumstances.
  4. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
  5. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  6. A Citizen Legislature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  7. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  8. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
  9. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  10. Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial ministries, direct phone and fax numbers, E-mail addresses, World Wide Web addresses, all indexed by subject. Available in print and online at $75/year.
  11. Politics of Illusion
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
  12. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2006
  13. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2006
  14. Review falsifies history
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    It is only because Canada's electoral system is profoundly undemocratic that it was possible for the Mulroney Tories to form a majority government with only 43 per cent of the votes. They then used that majority to force through the free trade deal even though a majority of the electorate had voted against it.
  15. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
  16. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  17. Waiting for Democracy
    A Citizen's Journal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Rick Salutin's of the pivotal 1988 "free trade" election. Waiting for Democracy makes a strong case that our political system is anything but democratic, though it offers little hope of changing it.
  18. What Went Wrong in Ohio
    The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Documents fraud in the 2004 U.S. election.
  19. Worthington provokes election controversy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.

Experts on Elections in the Sources Directory

  1. Brock University
  2. Citizens for Public Justice
  3. McMaster University
  4. Parliamentary Names & Numbers
  5. Simon Fraser University
  6. The University of Western Ontario
  7. Wilfrid Laurier University

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