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Useful links to tools for change
One of 21 posters you can download and print.
Poster Campaign: Print & Post!
www.voteagainst.info
Please go to this website to view 21 posters that show a breadth of real political concerns for Canadians. We encourage you to print off the posters that are important to you and put them up in visible locations.
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Swing the Vote! Comprehensive information on individual ridings and their vulnerability, and what you can do to make a difference on election day.
The Conservative Party is simply not in step with what scientists say is needed, with Canadians’ concerns, and with economic benefits of dealing with climate change. All the other major Parties have programs that seriously address our critical climate concerns and are talking about them in this election. If those of us who care about the environment don’t work together across party lines, the pro-environment vote will be split as it was in the last election and Harper will be re-elected. We are the majority. But our electoral system hasn’t kept up with Canada’s changing political landscape. This site calculates what the likely vote totals would be for each party based on today’s polling.
We have identified your riding as a swing riding if an NDP, Bloc or Liberal candidate could have won in 2006 if at least one-third of the opposition party supporters had voted for the leading opposition party in that riding. We also point to the ridings where the Green party is competing to win a seat this time. Where strategic voting will have no effect on reducing the chances of a Conservative win, we refrain from a recommendation. We have we done this to make the best possible information available to Canadians so we can stop splitting the vote and achieve government change not climate change. Please check the website often for updates and tell your friends who share our values of putting the environment above partisanship. Vote for Environment
News
Jack Layton troubled by the PM's copycat speech.
PM criticized on economy, environment - Liberal leader uses French TV debate to unveil 5-point economic plan
October 1, 2008 - Toronto Star
“It was a bold opening gambit by Dion to seize the spotlight during last night’s French-language debate and take the initiative as financial turmoil rattles Canadians’ confidence in the economy.”
Conservatives want to lower the age for young offenders and stiffen the penalties. - NOBODY thinks those are good ideas, but not only that, some people are coming up with imaginative, constructive solutions:
‘Appropriate adults’ wanted
Watford Observer
23rd September 2008
“Hertfordshire Youth Justice Service is looking for volunteers with an interest in the criminal justice system to help young people who find themselves on the wrong side of the law.”
Academy adopts new approach for recovering young offenders
by Ahmad Safi
St. Joe News
Monday, September 22, 2008
“One of the gaps there is there is not enough diversion programs with a good cognitive component,” Ms. Haileleoul said. “A lot of people believe poverty causes crime. (But) some people just lack skills.”
Research
The Harper Record - free download
“The 47 writers, researchers and analysts who have co-written this book probe into every aspect of the Harper minority government’s administration. From the economy to the environment, from social programs to foreign policy, from health care to tax cuts, from the Afghanistan mission to the tar sands, from free trade to deep integration, and to many other areas of this government’s record, the authors have dug out the facts and analyzed them.”
Published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
