News
March 26, 2008
Edmonton political blogger Avnish from Straight Outta Edmonton has written a post about Fair Vote Alberta's drive for a Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.
March 11, 2008
Fair Vote Alberta will be hosting an event with former BC Citizens' Assembly member Shoni Field on Wednesday, March 19th at the Strathcona Public Library in Edmonton. More details can be found on the events page.
March 10, 2008
Fair Vote Alberta was mentioned in Straight Goods' piece on the Alberta election, "Half the vote but only 20 percent of eligible voters":
"These types of distortions occur regularly with the first-past-the-post system used all across Canada," said J.D. Crookshanks, spokesman for Fair Vote Alberta, the provincial wing of Fair Vote Canada.
"To put the March 3 results into perspective, it only took about 7,000 votes province-wide to elect a PC candidate. It took 31,000 votes to elect a Liberal MLA, and 40,000 votes to elect a representative of the NDP. The 64,000 voters who cast ballots for the Wild Rose Alliance were shut out completely, as were the 43,000 supporters of the Alberta Greens. It is no wonder that Albertans are tuning out on a massive scale when so few of their votes count."
March 9, 2008
Fair Vote Alberta got a mention in the Calgary Sun article "Time to shake off the apathy":
A group called Fair Vote Alberta wants the government to set up a citizens' assembly to "study the voting system and determine if a better alternative exists for this province," says spokesman J.D. Crookshanks.
B.C.'s Liberal government did just that after it won all but two seats, so why can't Alberta?
March 6, 2008
Fair Vote Alberta was mentioned in the Ontario-based blog We Move to Canada in the context of a discussion about the Alberta election.
March 3, 2008
Edmonton-based blogger Tamara G of Bambamiamtam quoted Fair Vote Alberta in her post about today's election.
February 28, 2008
Fair Vote Alberta was included in the Calgary station CJSW's roundup on the provincial election. An mp3 sound file can be downloaded at CJSW's website.
February 14, 2008
Fair Vote Alberta was mentioned in the University of Calgary's student paper, the Gauntlet, in their article Counting votes: an examination of proportional representation":
"Alberta has a history of electoral reform," said Fair Vote Alberta media spokesperson J.D. Crookshanks. "What people don't realize is we've changed our electoral system in this province probably more than any other province. We're hoping that next time they change it, it happens through a citizens assembly, like it was in B.C. [or] Ontario."