Weeks ago, I hopped into a small car with two friends and drove 14 hours to Minneapolis. We weren’t travelling for business, a wedding or a sports game. We visited the Twin City to see an election.

Dave Meslin doesn’t mince words in his new book, Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up. Democracy in Canada is broken. Election results are distorted. Partisan politics are out of control.

This is a beta test of a show-in-the-works called ‘The City State’ in the form of an interview with David Meslin regarding politics, electoral reform, and the STV ...

At TEDxToronto Dave Meslin argues that apathy as we think we know it doesn’t exist — we live in a world that actively discourages engagement. Video by TEDx Talks. We’re so glad you stopped by! Thanks ...

The 2013 Bruce and Lis Welch Community Dialogue explored opportunities for empowering citizens in official City of Vancouver decision-making. The program featured Dave Meslin, one of Canada' most ...

Ideas from the irrepressible and lively mind of Dave Meslin: hold elections on weekends, open a civic engagement office, liven up dreary public notices so residents will actually notice them, end the ...

ST. CATHARINES, Ontario, Oct. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Peterborough takes home the top score in a newly released measure of the health of local democracy in Ontario’s largest communities followed ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. and magazines, the City Idol competition in 2006 and this year’s Better Ballots campaign, as well as helping ...

Breakout teams are asked to design a model Citizen Political Empowerment process for deciding the future of False Creek South. For the purpose of this workshop, Citizen Political Empowerment is ...

They fought to bring down billboards around the city, opposed using bus shelters as giant ads and rallied the city's indie set behind David Miller. But now that the Toronto Public Space Committee has ...

"As long as we believe that people, our own neighbors, are selfish, stupid or lazy, then there's no hope." CORRECTION: In the original broadcast of this segment, we said around 36,000 people elected ...

On Bathurst Street just north of Davenport, where the street begins to slope steeply, are two massive billboards with advertisements sitting side-by-side. They've been up for decades, but whether they ...