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by Letters to the editor on Thursday Feb 04 2021
Monday, February 1 marked the four year anniversary of Trudeau s broken promise on electoral reform.
“We are committed to ensuring that the 2015 election will be the last federal election using FPtP”
It was a key campaign promise which Trudeau repeated over 1800 times. An all party parliamentary committee, ERRE, heard from experts from around the world, MPs sought input from constituents and 360,000 Cdns completed a national survey. The committee s majority report recommended a process towards adopting an effective system of proportional representation for Canada, and it was not the only study in Canada to do so either.
by Letters to the editor on Wednesday Feb 03 2021
Dear Editor:
Monday, February 1 marked the four year anniversary of Trudeau s broken promise on electoral reform.
“We are committed to ensuring that the 2015 election will be the last federal election using FPtP”
It was a key campaign promise which Trudeau repeated over 1800 times. An all party parliamentary committee, ERRE, heard from experts from around the world, MPs sought input from constituents and 360,000 Cdns completed a national survey. The committee s majority report recommended a process towards adopting an effective system of proportional representation for Canada, and it was not the only study in Canada to do so either.
Film and TV round-up: February 2021
Channel 4 start the year with three sharp shows to help you through lockdown, while MUBI continues to fill the gaping hole left by the closure of arthouse cinemas Article by Jamie Dunn | 02 Feb 2021
MUBI has always been cinephile nirvana, but as skittish studios continue to shunt their glitziest arthouse titles off to a hopefully COVID-free future (
Another Round,
Promising Young Woman and
Nomadland were some of the films we’d originally planned to review this month before they retreated at the 11th hour) this streaming platform’s continued rollout of sparkling filmmaking from around the world is more appreciated than ever.
A sculpture of Rush drummer Neil Peart comes together in a new video from Canadian artist Morgan MacDonald. A year after Peart s death, MacDonald s aim is for the statue to grace Ontario s Lakeside Park, an area Rush immortalized in their 1975 song bearing the park s name.
He crafted the likeness of Peart with support from his brother, lifelong Rush fan Bill MacDonald. The siblings are teaming with up-and-coming Canadian musician Peter Fewer to dedicate the tribute sculpture to the late Rush member, who died from brain cancer in January 2020.
Watch the video of the sculpture down toward the bottom of this post.