Matthew Piggott's blog

Recently this party has been batting around political strategy in full force. Should we merge with another party? Form an electoral coalition? Vote "strategically"?

This is a response to this previous blog

Spring has arrived and that's got me thinking.  What should the goal for this year be?  I am also posting this because another form of the strategic v

Recently there has been some talk floating around many Green Party blogs talking about recent seat projections based on current polling numbers.  This is certainly some encouraging news as we

This Sunday morning CBC host Michael Enright did a one hour feature on the Guaranteed Annual Income(GAI), it's history in Canada, and an example of a town in Manitoba where it was instituted for 4

OK much of the current speculation about NDP cooperation (forming a coalition!?!?!?!) with the Conservatives is based on the fact that NDP seems to be low in the polls which seems to be because of

What can the Green Party do to set the stage to elect our first MPs?

Want to see what it would be like to vote in an election with Proportional Representation(PR)?  It would be a British Columbia-Single Transferable Vote (BC-STV) style election that is currentl

I was doing my daily review of the Globe and Mail political section when a little graphic caught my eye on the side of the web page.

Back in December Elizabeth May did a blog that made reference to the book "Two Cheers for Minority Government" by Canadian political scientists from the University of Toronto, Peter H. Russell.