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Fiona O'Connor
Katrin Steinack's paper entitled "Why some train and some don't: An international comparison of MPs' attitudes towards parliamentary training" examines the factors that influence MPs' attitudes toward parliamentary training programs. In this post, Samara volunteer Sonja Friesl offers an overview of Steinack's main findings.
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Alison Loat
The latest Manning Centre poll is pretty depressing news for the political set. Are we finally at the point when the political class in this country, such that it exists, will take on the low regard for politicians on as a real concern?
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Samara is pleased to introduce the first in a series of articles exploring the maiden speeches of former MPs from the 38th and 39th Parliaments. Today's post by Heather Steel summarizes the inaugural address of the Honourable Sarmite Bulte, a Liberal MP who represented the Toronto riding of Parkdale-High Park from 1997 to 2006.
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For our second instalment of Samara's "Profiles in Civics" we talked to Larry Franschman, a Toronto-based lawyer who helps run a number of innovative websites and services that provide Canadians with information on ways to engage with and access politics and government. Among them is Civic.ca, which offers Canadians a fast and easy way to find their elected representatives.
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