None Of The Above nominates 50th candidate for provincial election

 Ontario’s provincial election is approaching with what looks to be a highly contested campaign. While the Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP remain expected to put up a fight, the None Of The Above direct democracy party (NOTA) is committed to reshaping democracy in Ontario. Founded in 2014 by Greg Vezina, NOTA

None of the Above Direct Democracy Party has 36 candidates running in federal election

 The None of the Above Direct Democracy Party has nominated 36 candidates to run in the upcoming federal election. This represents in over ten percent of the 338 ridings almost a month before the September 30, 2019 deadline. Federal NOTA Party Leader Greg Vezina founded the None of the Above Direct

Carbon tax and new green deal solutions

 Photo by Matthew T Rader on Unsplash All of Canada’s major federal and provincial parties have flawed versions of carbon tax, cap-and-trade or climate change policies and new-green-deals. Both Justin Trudeau’s Liberal and Andrew Scheer’s Conservative climate change policies exempt the largest CO2 emitters in the highest polluting sectors between 70 and 80-90%

IPCC refutes climate change hysteria

 Prime Minister Trudeau justifies his carbon tax saying empirical evidence shows that as a result of man-made climate change storms, floods, heat waves and rising sea levels are all quickly getting worse. Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s reply to a reporter if he thought climate change played a role in recent flooding was,

Recycled Rhetoric: A Price on Pollution

 For half a century our politicians and leaders have been claiming their policies will increase energy supplies while reducing prices and pollution. Our present Prime Minister is using recycled rhetoric with his pollution claims, "We have a strong plan to fight it, one that leading scientists and economists support. It

Debating democracy, eh?

 Canada’s proposed rules for leaders’ debates organized by the new federal election commission entrench our biased polling and follow-the-leader horse race based party politics at the expense of real democracy. Newly nominated debates commissioner and former Governor General David Johnston has little flexibility in the mandated rules to organize two

Canadian Fake News Hits Awards Circuit

 By: Greg Vezina, President of the Democracy Channel®Inc. and leader of Ontario’s None Of The Above Party Canadian media organizations and the journalists they employ say they have a responsibility to the public to hold politicians accountable, but many also proudly claim that responsibility doesn’t apply to their most basic

All Parties Deserve Equitable Coverage in Elections

 By Linda Chenoweth I retired 3 years early from teaching with the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board due to my disillusionment with education in Ontario, many reasons of which I have written about in the Hamilton Spectator. I have covered issues such as the invalid and unreliable EQAO testing; violence in

???????Canadian Fake News Awards: Coming April Fool’s Day

 By Greg Vezina, president of the Democracy Channel® Inc. and leader of Ontario’s None Of The Above Party There will be Fake News Awards in multiple categories for private and public broadcasters, print and online media, cable, satellite and other distributors. Also for new media platforms including news aggregators.  Research

Prime Minister Maxime Bernier? Pourquoi Pas?

 Jean Chretien used to say that the biggest asset any politician has is their ability to be underestimated. He would know. In the early 1990s, Chretien was summarily dismissed by his critics and many members of the national press gallery as “yesterday’s man”. The “pundits” chimed that he would never

An Alternate View on Pipelines — Transport Ammonia not Crude

 TransCanada Corporation’s (TCC) Energy East Pipeline (EEP) has been getting a lot of coverage in the news lately. Rather than building additional capacity in Alberta to refine Canadian bitumen and crude oil into high value finished products, the oil industry has been looking for ways to export oil to U.S.