Gender parity is possible
Toronto Star
... female leaders overseeing parliaments, legislatures and city councils of 50 per cent women. A way to get there before four generations is for all parties to agree to work together to bring in proportional representation. June Macdonald, Toronto ...

Mike Robinson's 2013 New Year's wish list
Troy Media
In this cause, why don't we gift ourselves with a study of German and New Zealand proportional representation practices, and talk about it as a nation? What a good topic for a Royal Commission. Armed with a new awareness of what's possible in politics ...

Liberals need to take stronger stands: Hall Findlay
GlobalNews.ca
I've been a supporter of some form of proportional representation for years and years and years....

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CBCNews.ca readers weigh in on democracy survey
CBC.ca
"It is time for some form of proportional representation. That way the parties need to present their platform - and be judged on it, and the people who will deliver it, not just the cult of the leader, or the ways the party deflects issues away from ...

Gaming the system
Macleans.ca (blog)
There are a lot of reasons to prefer proportional representation — I've written about it often — but for the opposition parties there is one reason in particular: the current system heavily favours the Conservatives, as the party with the support of ...

Have your say
Winnipeg Free Press
Oh, right, that might jeopardize the re-election of another Conservative MP. This type of abuse is another reason why Canada needs to move to a system of proportional representation. But the Conservatives will never do that, because Stephen Harper ...

Electoral reform is the issue
Toronto Star
Both parties should go for a majority win, with a commitment to bring in proportional representation in time for the next election — and a strategy to co-operate with each other if neither gets that majority. Lynn McDonald, former NDP MP, university ...