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The power of the student vote

Written on September 17, 2021. Posted in Features.

On Sept. 20, Canadians will be heading to the polls for the second time in two years. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the snap election on Aug. 15. This election puts many undergrad students in an unexpected position. For those who turned 18 after the 2019 federal election, this will be the first...

Young Liberals of Canada call on Elections Canada to reverse decision on campus voting program

Written on September 2, 2021. Posted in News.

In a recent announcement, Elections Canada said it will not be providing student voting locations on campuses for the upcoming federal election this Sept. 20. Vote on Campus was started as a pilot project in 2015 and expanded to 109 colleges and universities during the 2019 federal election. The program...

Democracy is never ‘first past the post’

Written on February 9, 2021. Posted in Editorials.

We supposedly live in a representative democracy. Yet in 2011, a party that only 39.6 per cent of the electorate voted for took majority control of Parliament. The reason for this is our current voting system: first past the post (FPTP). Under this system, the candidate who receives the most votes...

Voting absentee as an American-Canadian citizen

Written on October 22, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle, Student Life.

I’ve always been proud of my American-Canadian dual citizenship. While I grew up in a small, Connecticut town, my summers were consumed by month-long visits to my grandparents’ cottage near Westport, Ontario. Christmas often meant travelling to Ottawa to see grandparents and cousins. Once I graduated...

How the surging campus vote is changing Canadian politics

Written on November 15, 2019. Posted in Features.

In 2015, the “Vote on Campus” initiative saw more than 70,000 ballots cast from students across Canada. In 2019, that number leaped to 111,300. The surge is ballots cast on campus isn’t only a sign of increased youth engagement, its also representative of a major demographic shift that will have consequences...

Parties should do more to appeal to student voters

Written on October 1, 2019. Posted in Editorials.

The rhetoric that young Canadians don’t vote is outdated and inaccurate—and politicians do us a disservice when they fail to consider that. An opinion published in The Toronto Star earlier this month discussed the value and importance of post-secondary student voters, and the false narrative about...

AMS vote OKs multi-million dollar JDUC redevelopment

Written on January 19, 2019. Posted in News.

The multi-million dollar JDUC redevelopment project passed in a referendum on Friday evening, clearing its last major hurdle. Voter turnout was 25.6 per cent—up almost 5 per cent from last year’s unsuccessful JDUC referendum vote, according to an AMS press release. Students who voted in favour of...

City of Kingston adopts ranked ballot voting system

Written on January 11, 2019. Posted in City Council, News.

Voting in Kingston will be on a ranked ballot system before the next municipal election in 2022. City staff are moving forward with ranked ballots following October’s referendum, where 63 per cent of voters supported changing the current first-past-the-post voting system to a ranked ballot. Despite...

Electoral reform could help increase the student political voice

Written on February 7, 2017. Posted in Editorials.

On Feb 1, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government was scrapping all plans for electoral reform. As students, electoral reform would’ve been a step towards increasing our political representation. During his campaign, Trudeau pledged that 2015 would be the last election under the...

Voter turnout isn’t about the age, it’s about the demographic

Written on September 27, 2016. Posted in Editorials.

Pushing for the voting age to be lowered to 16 misses the bigger picture of voter representation — or rather, who’s missing from the picture. Inspired by cases of high youth voter turnout during the Scottish referendum and in Britain’s vote to leave the EU, many argue that if Canadian 16-year-olds...

Talking down doesn’t turnout voters

Written on October 16, 2015. Posted in Editorials.

The tattooed hooligan stereotype is dead. Now let’s put it to bed. A recent article in The Kingston Whig-Standard entitled “A how-to guide to voting for Tattooed Millennials” made us collectively scratch our heads at its portrayal of voting as an event similar to getting a tattoo. According to the...

A guide to voting in the federal election

Written on October 16, 2015. Posted in Lifestyle.

They say the first time’s always special. Voting in your first federal election can be nerve-racking, and many young voters in Canada inevitably question whether their vote will make a difference. But no matter what riding you live in, every vote counts. If you’re 18 and a Canadian citizen, you can...

Talking Heads: How do you feel about the higher AMS fall referendum voter turnout?

Written on November 21, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Talking Heads: How do you feel about the higher AMS fall referendum voter turnout?

QJ Politics: A mandatory vote

Written on October 31, 2014. Posted in Lifestyle.

This week’s performance in the Kingston municipal election was, in a word, abysmal. This trend of low voter turnout is hardly related to whom we elect to City Hall. Canada’s voter turnout federally went from a healthy 75 per cent in the 1960s to an underwhelming 60 per cent at the last federal election...

Talking Heads: Are you registered to vote in Monday's election?

Written on October 24, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Are you registered to vote in Monday’s election?

QJ Politics: Why don’t youth vote?

Written on September 19, 2014. Posted in Lifestyle.

For pollsters and political scientists alike, the biggest indicator of voter turnout is your age. Youth don’t vote and they never have, according to Statistics Canada. There are several reasons for this: we don’t feel voting is a civil duty in the same way our parents do, we feel we simply don’t...

QJPolitics: The only useless vote is one not cast

Written on January 20, 2014. Posted in Lifestyle.

While most sought a New Year’s kiss as the clock struck midnight this Jan. 1, the year 2014 signalled the start, for many, of the build up to the next election. Not the student government election, but the Canadian one. Although the next federal election isn’t for over a year, the Liberal, Conservative,...

Students left out of Fall Referendum

Written on October 29, 2013. Posted in News.

Following last week’s Fall Referendum voting process, it was found that 20 students were excluded from the initial vote. An announcement came on Sunday, concerning last week’s technical difficulties that prevented upwards of 6,000 emails being sent out to students. The emails were to notify students...

Executive candidates talk shop

Written on January 24, 2012. Posted in Features.

Team GPP The first thing T.K. Pritchard noticed was the matching ties. ASUS President Rico Garcia and Vice-President Duncan Peterson are known for wearing matching outfits. It was all Pritchard knew about his running mates before meeting the pair in the fall. “Once I got over the fact that they were...

E-ballots re-sent

Written on October 28, 2011. Posted in News.

Electronic ballots for the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society’s (ASUS) fall election were re-sent to students after a system error. The original voting went from Oct. 25 to 26, and Arts and Science students could cast votes for the society’s senators and representatives to the AMS. A vote was...

Provincial Election Liveblog 2011

Written on October 7, 2011. Posted in Lifestyle.

Provincial Elections Liveblog 2011

Tag: Voting

The power of the student vote

Young Liberals of Canada call on Elections Canada to reverse decision on campus voting program

Democracy is never ‘first past the post’

Voting absentee as an American-Canadian citizen

How the surging campus vote is changing Canadian politics

Parties should do more to appeal to student voters

AMS vote OKs multi-million dollar JDUC redevelopment

City of Kingston adopts ranked ballot voting system

Electoral reform could help increase the student political voice

Voter turnout isn’t about the age, it’s about the demographic

Talking down doesn’t turnout voters

A guide to voting in the federal election

Talking Heads: How do you feel about the higher AMS fall referendum voter turnout?

QJ Politics: A mandatory vote

Talking Heads: Are you registered to vote in Monday's election?

QJ Politics: Why don’t youth vote?

QJPolitics: The only useless vote is one not cast

Students left out of Fall Referendum

Executive candidates talk shop

E-ballots re-sent

Provincial Election Liveblog 2011

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