1. Can Mulcair work a miracle and gain unlikely victory?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   The big sleeper in the campaign that could mean victory for the Conservatives depends on whether hundreds-of-thousands of people who favour the NDP or the Liberals can manage to vote. According to the Council of Canadians, the so-called Fair Elections Act makes it more difficult for at least 770,000 people to vote.
2. Canada After Harper
   His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2015
   Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
3. Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
   Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
4. Canada's 1960s 
   The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   A history of social movements of the 1960s, including student and anti-war movements, the rise of women's liberation, labour struggles, and Quebec nationalism.
5. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000
   Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
6. Canada's prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Stephen Harper, who won by an uncomfortably small margin in the last election, has passed laws designed to keep voters who oppose him from the polls.
7. The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial.
8. The Canadian Elections: Cover-Up and Steal (Again)
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   The opposition parties in Canada's 2015 federal election are sticking to a careful PR-driven script, refusing to even mention the fact that Stephen Harper's Conservatives broke the law and committed fraud in winning the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections. The mainstream media and the political parties scrupulously ignore this reality.
9. Canadian Socialism
   Essays on the CCF and the NDP
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993
   
10. Catastrophe: The NDP lost because it deserved to
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It is, ultimately, astounding how facile and false political narratives come back to haunt those who insist on their veracity.
11. Changes to voting system leave Canada worse off
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    How did we end up with this convoluted and discriminatory method of voting when we once had perhaps the best method in the world - door-to-door enumeration and no hard-to-get voter ID requirement?
12. Cree Agenda Becomes Part of Federal Election
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    The politicians of all parties are acting as if Aboriginal rights are irrelevant to this question of Quebec secession. Not only is it relevant: it is, in fact, central to the whole question. And if the politicians would only admit this frankly, the terms of the whole debate would be changed overnight.
13. Elections Canada bungled its investigation of Michael Sona and the 2011 robocall scandal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Because the 'robocalls' fraud of Canada's 2011 federal election was insufficiently investigated by state authorities and underreported by the corporate media, Canadians have yet to understand its scale, focus, and impact.
14. Filtering The Election
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Examining the mainstream media's role in the 2016 US election of suppressing criticisms of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party establishment.
15. Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
16. The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
17. New group urges progressives to build 'One Big Campaign' to take on Harper
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A campaign urging Canadian social activist groups to work together under one massive umbrella to take on the Harper regime and his right-wing supporters was officially launched today.
18. On the Defeat of Megan Leslie & Peter Stoffer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    What happened on Monday is proof of how divorced from reality we are. Progressives, radicals, the Left, whatever you call the people who believe in and strive for deep social change - we are disconnected from the majority of people. We are insulated in our communities of like-minded activists, surrounded by people with similar beliefs and thoughts.
19. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
20. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
    Voter Suppression
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
21. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
    Elections
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
22. Our Generation
    Volume 1 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1962
    
23. Our Generation
    Volume 20 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
24. 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.
25. Shades of Grey -- A Left Chapter look at strategy, tactics and endorsements in the 2015 election
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    With just under two weeks to go until election day, anti-capitalist leftists are in something of a quandary.
26. Strong voter registration campaign could mean the end for Harper
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The primary objective of Stephen Harper's absurdly-named Fair Elections Act is to prevent hundreds-of-thousands of Canadians from voting for the NDP, Liberals, Greens, etc. But efforts to help people to register to vote are not as strong as they could be. There needs to be close co-operation among groups to make sure that as many people as possible - particularly people in some 70 ridings where the Conservatives are vulnerable - have the identification they need to vote.
27. What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
28. Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
    When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
29. Worthington provokes election controversy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.

Experts on Wahlen auf Bundesebene in the Sources Directory

1. Fair Vote Canada
2. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance