government

In another thread, @BetteTheRed commented: So if the voting public can't be trusted to behave sensibly and consider things other than self-interest, why are we letting them make these decisions? Plato essentially argued that we leave things like medicine to specialists, so why not governance...

With a year to go until the next federal election, it is shaping up to be a close race between the two usual suspects, the Liberals and the Conservatives. At least in Global's new poll. Scheer is still having image problems, as in he doesn't have one for something like 40% of the population, but...

The Ford government's "reform" of Toronto's wards was discussed in the Municipal Elections thread but it probably deserves its own. Short version to date: Short after taking power, Premier Doug Ford announced the province was going to unilaterally cut the number of wards in Toronto from 47 to...