David Moscrop
Political Scientist, University of Ottawa and Contributor at Freelance
Writer. Words in Globe and Mail, Washington Post, Jacobin, etc. Author: Too Dumb for Democracy? Podcasts: Open to Debate and Left Looking In. Newsletter, too.
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1 week ago |
thewalrus.ca | David Moscrop
W e’re over halfway through the election campaign, and you may have spent part of the past few days reading about the Liberals circulating fake campaign buttons—a depressing, if not uncommon, story of dirty campaigning. If you’re extra lucky, maybe you’ve read about the upcoming leaders’ debates. The debates promise to be little more than the usual—a series of press conferences clipped for social media masquerading as an exchange of different views.
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2 weeks ago |
gzeromedia.com | David Moscrop
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2 weeks ago |
nationalobserver.com | David Moscrop
Of course, 9,000 or 12,000 or 15,000 people at a rally is, in fact, a lot of people at a rally. And yet, it's also not a statistically significant sample of the population, nor is it an indicator that a party is going to win the election. Our electoral system rewards support across geographies - not concentrated in one place.
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2 weeks ago |
chatelaine.com | David Moscrop
Canada’s 45th general election could be one of its most consequential. In the United States, the Trump administration is waging an economic war on the country as Canadians continue to struggle with an affordability and housing crisis. Canadian nationalism is surging and people are asking big questions about their country and its leadership.
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2 weeks ago |
macleans.ca | David Moscrop
It’s a good time to be in Canada’s oil and gas industry. For all Canadians’ professed concern about climate change, the O&G business managed record revenues in 2022 and 2023, with a near-record projected for 2025. But if the CPC wins the next election, that’ll be just the beginning. A Poilievre government will pursue a light-regulation, fossil-fuel-boosting, drill-baby-drill agenda. It’ll also have cross-partisan support, thanks to growing calls for Canada to assert sovereignty over its resources.
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