BC-STV news roundup
Thought I'd take a moment (or two) to try and round-up all the newspaper articles I can track down on the topic of the upcoming referendum:
First off, a good article by Brenda Guild Gillespie in the Tri-City News.
The Tyee:
STV Gives Rural Towns Needed Clout Peter Ewart argues that STV will allow rural MLA's to more effectively represent local interests.
A Voting Scheme Made for the Rural Right Kevin Potvin argues that the setup of the ridings (fewer members per riding in the rural areas) will favour right wing parties.
Weee! Easy As STV! Tom Barrett almost makes Norman Spector look like a giant of logical argument with this piece which I would hesitate to print if I was editing an elementary school newspaper for fear of lowering the tone.
B.C. Vote Reform Could Lock in Right Wing This is, um, basically the same article that Kevin wrote above. I guess they figured it had been a few months so they'd change the byline and a few words and re-print it.
Rafes Revenge This article is about Rafe Mair, not STV specifically, but it does have a good quote from him on electoral reform:
The Georgia Straight:
Coverage of STV in the Straight basically consists of:
1. Columns by Bill Tieleman (Democracy Denied With STV Propaganda, Greens, Liberals Drove Assembly to STV, STV Shenanigans Confusing, Single Transferable Vote Equals Multiple Problems) where he desperately tries to twist any possible angle into a reason to oppose STV, even going so far as to suggest that we should vote against it because otherwise people in Ontario will laugh at us and:
2. Letters to the Straight, the majority of which are spent pointing out the numerous errors, misconceptions and oversights in his columns. See: Tieleman Tsk-Tsked for STV Trash Talk, Readers Vote For Electoral Change, Assembly Casts About for Electoral Answers, not to mention: Why Did Citizens' Assembly Choose STV?, Obscure Fringe Could Be Our Salvation, and Readers Submit Votes For and Against STV (mainly for, from what I see).
The Province, The Sun, The Times-Colonist
These papers are all part of Canada.com which claims to have no articles on STV in the last 7 days, and isn't searchable any further back. Does it seem weird to anyone that this free blog which I do in my spare time (left over after working on my other free blog) has better search capability and better archiving than the three highest circulation newspapers in the province?
Moving on, the Citizen's Assembly site has a great list of anything in the media up to about mid-December.
Finally, the Yes Campaign Site Forum has a Section for Press Coverage here, and a section for rebuttals to various anti-STV commentary here.
First off, a good article by Brenda Guild Gillespie in the Tri-City News.
The Tyee:
STV Gives Rural Towns Needed Clout Peter Ewart argues that STV will allow rural MLA's to more effectively represent local interests.
A Voting Scheme Made for the Rural Right Kevin Potvin argues that the setup of the ridings (fewer members per riding in the rural areas) will favour right wing parties.
Weee! Easy As STV! Tom Barrett almost makes Norman Spector look like a giant of logical argument with this piece which I would hesitate to print if I was editing an elementary school newspaper for fear of lowering the tone.
B.C. Vote Reform Could Lock in Right Wing This is, um, basically the same article that Kevin wrote above. I guess they figured it had been a few months so they'd change the byline and a few words and re-print it.
Rafes Revenge This article is about Rafe Mair, not STV specifically, but it does have a good quote from him on electoral reform:
Still, he thinks the system would yield good results strong, electable independent candidates, greater diversity of opinion, and governments that would be obliged to respect diverse interests.
The people that prefer first-past-the-post are the solid interests, the solid socialists, the solid capitalists. They are the folks who benefit from the devoted patronage of having their person in the premiers office. Its not in their interest to have actually lobby the broad base of an entire legislature.
The Georgia Straight:
Coverage of STV in the Straight basically consists of:
1. Columns by Bill Tieleman (Democracy Denied With STV Propaganda, Greens, Liberals Drove Assembly to STV, STV Shenanigans Confusing, Single Transferable Vote Equals Multiple Problems) where he desperately tries to twist any possible angle into a reason to oppose STV, even going so far as to suggest that we should vote against it because otherwise people in Ontario will laugh at us and:
2. Letters to the Straight, the majority of which are spent pointing out the numerous errors, misconceptions and oversights in his columns. See: Tieleman Tsk-Tsked for STV Trash Talk, Readers Vote For Electoral Change, Assembly Casts About for Electoral Answers, not to mention: Why Did Citizens' Assembly Choose STV?, Obscure Fringe Could Be Our Salvation, and Readers Submit Votes For and Against STV (mainly for, from what I see).
The Province, The Sun, The Times-Colonist
These papers are all part of Canada.com which claims to have no articles on STV in the last 7 days, and isn't searchable any further back. Does it seem weird to anyone that this free blog which I do in my spare time (left over after working on my other free blog) has better search capability and better archiving than the three highest circulation newspapers in the province?
Moving on, the Citizen's Assembly site has a great list of anything in the media up to about mid-December.
Finally, the Yes Campaign Site Forum has a Section for Press Coverage here, and a section for rebuttals to various anti-STV commentary here.
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