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French unrest in Montreal

Montrealers gathered outside the French Consulate in solidarity with their French counterparts. Protesters in France are demanding more funding and support for the education system, as well as relief from ...the high cost of living.

Organized by France Insoumise Montreal, demonstrators called on the French government to act and for President Emmanuel Macron to step down.

The latest marches in France drew more than 400,000 people nationwide, and the movement has now spread to Quebec. Students in the province are demanding change to the education system. Post-secondary institutions plan to strike from November 9th to 13th.

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French unrest in Montreal

When should we actually use the police?

Reporting police abuse is the bare minimum

Montrealers gather for Migrant Rights Day.

Two SPVM officers suspended for acts of humiliation w/ Orlando Nicoletti

Does Québec need a new way to vote? w/ Adam Inniss

Québec’s election delivered a Parti Québécois minority government with roughly 28 percent of the popular vote, raising questions about how closely the National Assembly reflects the electorate. The result gives ...the PQ the largest share of seats, despite nearly three-quarters of valid ballots going to other parties.

Original data research by Local 514 journalist Kalden Rangdröl Dhatsenpa reveals another dimension of that representation gap: in 92 ridings, the number of registered electors who did not vote exceeded the ballots cast for the winning candidate. If non-voters were counted as a hypothetical party, they would have finished first in those constituencies.

The comparison shows how a candidate can win while receiving the support of a relatively small portion of the people registered to vote in their riding. Under Québec’s first-past-the-post system, a candidate needs more votes than any rival, not a majority of votes cast.
In a new Local 514 episode, Kalden Dhatsenpa and CJLO News Hour host Adam Inniss discuss what these findings mean for democratic representation and electoral reform, with the latter re-entering public discourse in light of this election.

Proportional representation would bring parties’ seat totals closer to their share of the vote. Some mockups of this election’s popular vote transposed into a proportional system show how different the results would be, with the CAQ receiving between 17 and 19 seats. Changing the voting system could improve representation, but these proportional transposals don’t show how differently people might vote if their vote counted more.

The election leaves Québec with a government able to lead, but whose electoral support falls well short of a majority. Local 514’s findings sharpen the province’s question: what would an electoral system that better represents Quebecers actually look like?

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