[fvc-wat-disc] Brian Bourke 570 News

[Jennifer Ross]

Oh, definitely!  If you are a National personage, that's different.  He's
also speaking at an event out there on the 23rd itself, I believe.  BTW,
you don't have to say where you are from in the comments section of many of
these newspapers :)
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 2:06 PM Dave Arthur <arthurd23 at bell.net> wrote:

> Good op-ed in today’s Vancouver Sun by Andrew Coyne.
>
> Electoral reform finally coming to Canada and not a moment too soon.
>
> It focuses on the number of municipal elections using or voting on ranked
> ballot.
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> He points out that it’s not really proportional but is encouraged that it
> could lay the groundwork for other than FPTP in all elections.
>
> He also refers to the BC referendum and the fact that it won 58% in 2005
> and a majority in all but two ridings.
>
> His timing for this column is intentional and I suspect that, even as an
> Ontario but national columnist, he is well regarded.
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> *From: *Sharon Sommerville <sharonsommerville at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Friday, October 19, 2018 8:27 PM
> *To: *Jennifer Ross <jenn at jenniferross.ca>; FVC Waterloo Region Discussion
> <fvc-wat-disc at listserv.thinkers.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [fvc-wat-disc] Brian Bourke 570 News
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> Hi Jenn,
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>
> That is very interesting... sometimes surprising support pops up in odd
> places.  Don't know if Brian Bourke is a fairvote supporter but we could
> reach out to him and see if he is interested in interviewing us about
> electoral reform, Trudeau's broken promise etc..
>
>
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> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:10 AM Jennifer Ross <2jennross at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh yes, I meant to bring this up.  Yesterday my Mike told me that the day
> before (so this is Oct 17 this happened) he was in the car listening to
> 570News on his way home and the host was talking elections and said his
> biggest disappointment was with Trudeau unpromising electoral reform after
> the whole ERRE, mailed questionnaire, etc.  So I looked up the host at that
> time and it was Brian Bourke.  Now, Mike could be completely wrong that a)
> it was the host speaking b) he was listening to 570News.
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> Does anyone know Brian Bourke as a Fair Voter??
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> Jenn
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