elections
UVSS ELECTIONS | Meet independent candidate Victoria Ritchie
Leading up to the 2020 UVSS election, the Martlet spoke with independent candidate Victoria Ritchie. Ritchie is running to be a Director-at-Large on a platform of sustainability, inclusivity, and decolonization.
Juliet Watts and Kate Fairley elected student representatives for UVic Board of Governors
The results are in — the newly elected student representatives for the 2020-21 UVic Board of Governors are Juliet Watts and Kate Fairley. Although voting ended at 4:30 p.m. on…
Consequences of a broken promise: Proportional representation and the 2019 federal election
Despite Liberal promises that 2015 would be the last federal election using first-past-the-post, the voting system remained the same in 2019. Had this promise been kept, the election would have…
Social media is harming our democracies and ads are just the tip of the iceberg
Politicians using money to gain influence is nothing new. But with Facebook under fire for refusing to fact-check political ads and Twitter deciding to ban them, any voter has to…
NEWS UNSETTLED | Don’t (just) vote
"With the election safely behind us and the populist pressure to "do your civic duty" now relaxed until the next election cycle, I'd like to challenge a bit of the…
Why Canadians should vote for the sexiest candidate every time
If we have learned nothing else in the time Justin Trudeau has been in office, it is that candidates with great hair and a winning smile are always the most…
Canada’s future depends on America’s present
Canadian and United States cultures and media are innately linked, and as a result, so too are our ideologies. This means that it is more important than ever for Canadians…
