Keeping it Real...

Vancouver’s most unsightly and problem-plagued area, Hastings/Main has developed its own “suburb” … Granville/Nelson/Smythe  … getting worse than ever ….  and no one  seems to be paying attention.
In fact, Vancouver Council is about to add more fuel to hasten the destruction....

Rex Murphy is a Canadian gem: a true patriot who often captures and expresses the conscience of this nation … and, in my opinion, also reflects so often our collective soul …coast to coast to coast.
For those who have not had the pleasure and privilege of hearing him,  Murphy is  a veteran CBC broadcaster, whose weekly Point of View, Thursdays on The National, is the consistent BEST three to four minutes each week on Canadian television....

It really should be no wonder that so many Canadians are so disgusted with our politicians and their pathetic performances that they can’t even be bothered to show up to vote.
And make no mistake about it …MOST of what Canadians have witnessed in Parliament over the past two days (if they have even paid attention) has been a PERFORMANCE … worthy of the Stratford stage and even a World Wide Wrestling broadcast....

There IS something wrong with any first-past-the-post electoral system … where parties that don’t even win 50% of the popular vote, but can still capture 100% of all the elected seats.
The problem in coming up with a better system to deal with that is to design one that a clear majority of voters would support....