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By RICHARD JENKINS, Jenkins Research Inc.Ever since the infamous Literary Digest straw poll which wrongly predicted that Landon would win the 1936 Presidential Election and led to the reliance on random, representative surveys, pollsters
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By ÉRIC DUHAIMEgreenpartystrategy.com is launching a new series – “Canadians on everything green”
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By DERMOD TRAVIS – communications consultantLet’s kick-off a series of posts by acknowledging the elephant in the Green party’s kitchen – it has factions.
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By DERMOD TRAVIS, communications consultantWhen you’re in a tunnel and see a bright shiny object ahead it’s either an oncoming train or that proverbial light people keep talking about.
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By ROBERT ROUTELEDGE, Canadian Field Organizer with Obama for AmericaThere have been several informative articles on greenpartystrategy.com about different kinds of events you can organize in your comm
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By ERICH JACOBY-HAWKINS, Green Party of Canada candidate for BarrieOntario Green party members are often very active leaders in their community. Many are involved in different charities, campaigns or causes outside their Green party involvement.
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By ROBERT ROUTLEDGE, Canadian Field Organizer with Obama for America
Effectively managing volunteers is a crucial part of winning elections. If you simplify winning an election into three parts: persuading people to vote for you; identifying who will vote for you; and getting your supporters out to vote, then it becomes clear that the easiest path to success is to have people willing to talk about voting for a Green candidate
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By ERICH JACOBY-HAWKINS, Green Party of Canada candidate for Barrie, OntarioIn Barrie, much like in other ridings in Canada, the Green Party receives far more votes than the number of people we actually know who vote Green.
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By LAWSON HUNTER, past-President of the Green Party of OntarioTo succeed, every organization needs support from a variety of people and on a number of different levels. In their drive to get votes and elect candidates, political parties are no different.
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By ERICH JACOBY-HAWKINS, Green Party of Canada candidate for Barrie, OntarioOn May 23, the Barrie Green Party of Canada EDA will be holding its second annual community yard sale.
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By MARK TAYLOR, former member of the Green Party's Federal Council and Shadow CabinetGreen politicians and volunteers are well versed in environmentalism, which would serve them very well if they were competing with activist groups or environmental NGO’s for support.
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By ROBERT ROUTLEDGE, Canadian Field Organizer with Obama for AmericaThe “lessons” from the Obama campaign are likely to be a very hot topic for the foreseeable future as political thinkers and strategists struggle to unearth the secrets of this historic win.
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By DARCY KRAUS, GOTV coordinator Guelph 2008GRIMES is the Green Riding Information Management and Electoral System, a database tool developed by the Green Party of Canada to help collect and store information about supporters at the local level.
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By MIKE SCHREINER, GPO by-election candidate Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-BrockThe Green Party of Ontario (GPO) has demonstrated its growing strength as a political force in Ontario with a solid third-place finish ahead of the NDP in the recent Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock
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By Ard Van Leeuwen, 2008 Green Party of Canada candidate for Dufferin-CaledonIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
During a national convention, a political party’s soul-searching is even more intense than during a general election. How has the party performed over the past two years? Have we learned from our mistakes and are we on track to achieving success? How do we measure success?
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By JANE STERK, leader of the Green Party of British ColumbiaThese are exciting times for Greens across Canada as we mature into a significant political force in Canada. In BC, we are thinking more politically and strategically about how to transform our support into electoral wins. This reflects recognition that gaining credibility with the electorate means behaving in a way that reassures people that there is something in it for them when they vote Green.
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By JIM HARRIS, former leader of the Green Party of CanadaThere were over 300 people at the Green Party of Canada’s leaders’ debate in Calgary, which was televised on CPAC for one simple reason.
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By MARK TAYLOR, former member of the Green Party's Federal Council and Shadow CabinetIn the first twenty-five years of the Green Party of Canada’s history, a great deal of effort has been poured into forming and perfecting policies the party takes into elections.
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By ANDY SHADRACK, Director Area D, Regional District Central Kootenay, BCGreen parties around the world face different electoral systems through which they must run candidates in order to get elected. Here in Canada, like 23 percent of countries in the world, we use the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) system in which a ruling government is formed by the political party that scores the highest number of riding victories
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By VAN FERRIER, kanopi media and communicationsCanadian newspapers are awash with coverage of the fallout from French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s recent remarks about Quebec’s sovereignty movement. Sarkozy made the remarks in February when he met with Quebec Premier Jean Charest to present him with the Legion of Honour – one of France’s highest awards. Pundits have weighed in on Sarkozy’s fedearlist leanings and the terse response from Bloc Québecois leader Gilles Duceppe and Parti Québecois chief Pauline Marois.