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Democracy Cafe: Introduction to Voting Systems
Introduction to Voting Systems: Why do they matter? Wayne Smith is a Campaign Coordinator and former national President of Fair Vote Canada, a national grassroots movement for fair voting reform. Wayne is the founding Chair of the Fair Vote Canada Toronto Chapter and founding Director of the Fair Vote Ontario Campaign. He has been working for fair voting reform for ten years and doesn't know when to quit.
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Democracy Cafe: Engaging New Canadians to Participate
Uzma Shakir, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography and Programme in Planning, University of Toronto. Uzma is a community-based researcher, advocate and activist whose work focuses on issues of race, erosion of civil liberties & critical multiculturalism.
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Democracy Cafe: Our Perilous Imbalance
Our Perilous Imbalance: How the Dice Are Loaded against Canadian Citizens Engagement with Global Governance
Speakers: Stephen Clarkson and Stepan Wood
Monday, April 26, 2010, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Koffler House, 569 Spadina Ave, Room KP108
Stephen Clarkson is a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Stepan Wood is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Their recently published book (Feb 15) is A Perilous Imbalance The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance.
"Canadians have long experience as objects of global forces. Yet they are also agents of globalization, contributing to the emergence of a transnational assemblage of law and governance that is markedly uneven in its attention to - and impacts on - commerce, human welfare, and the environment. "A Perilous Imbalance" marries political economy with socio-legal analysis to show how law and governance are deployed by various actors to advance globalizing agendas. Its critical interdisciplinary analysis traces the emergence of a global supraconstitution by which transnational corporations and powerful states discipline democratic governance in pursuit of neoconservative economic globalization. This work documents the contradictory transformations of the Canadian state as it has retreated from some areas while reasserting itself in others. It also looks beyond the state and interstate systems to examine governance initiatives involving actors from civil society, business, and government. This book is written for scholars and advanced students of law and politics, as well as the broader policy community."
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Democracy Cafe: The Psychology of Activism
Dr. Dan Dolderman is an Environmental Psychologist at the University of Toronto, with a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Waterloo. For the past 10 years, his research has explored the drivers of pro-environmental behaviours, and how to enhance the persuasive impact of environmental messages. He has helped to design environmental programs for the University of Toronto, regularly presents the psychology of behaviour change to groups ranging from student activists to Toronto City Council, and has consulted for Free the Children, an international youth organization devoted to promoting positive youth development and volunteerism. Dr. Dolderman's key focus is helping to improve programs and campaigns related to climate change.
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Democracy Cafe: Peter Russell
Democracy Cafe: The Unsound Constitutional Foundations of Canada's Parliamentary Democracy
Peter Russell is a University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto where he taught political science from 1958 to his retirement in 1996. He is a past President of the Canadian Political Science Association, the Canadian Law and Society Association, and the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy. He has published widely on constitutional, judicial and aboriginal politics. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and holds honorary degrees from a number of universities and the Law Society of Upper Canada. Professor Russell is the author of the recently published Two Cheers for Minority Government: The Evolution of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy (Emond Montgomery Publications, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis, a book of essays on the parliamentary crisis Canada experienced from November 2008 to the end of January 2009 published by University of Toronto Press.
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