Canadian politicians
Canadian election 2015 : Ask about a democratic head of state at your local all-candidates meeting
The official campaign just began on Sunday, August 2. But unofficially the real Canadian federal election of 2015 has been under way since as long ago as the 24th of May. Back on June 19 the veteran CBC TV pundit Andrew Coyne urged that there “has never been an election campaign like the one on which we are now embarked ... There’s a weird fin-de-siècle glow in the air, a sense of things coming unstuck, old certainties uprooted. Policies, parties, institutions, everything is in flux, to a degree I cannot recall any precedent for.” (more…)