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Guest post by Fair Vote Toronto Due to the First Past the Post electoral system, we strategically elected a federal Liberal party government, but, de facto, have a Conservative government instead. For many of us, neither party's policies are what we actually want. In the province of Ontario, we also have major problems with true representation. Bill 5 has given the Conservative government the power to ignore policies that have lawfully been passed by the legislature putting o

Children of Caana , a poetic essay by local Green contributor and former Green Party of Canada candidate Shane Philips. Wake up, world. The trials are spoken in marble halls at The Hague, but justice does not echo there. Words are carved and signed, and yet nothing moves. The poison of indifference flows quietly, like a serpent in your veins. You hear the sound of crickets — the song of silence — and mistake it for peace. You say, "It’s far away," as if the cries of the earth