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Friday, October 09, 2020
How Incivility Harms Politics
While complaints about incivility online can be used to censor or drown out critical voices, it is also true that disrespect, rudeness, harassment, and abuse online have real costs for our democracy. Find out why!
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Monday, March 23, 2020
Bad Online Arguments Explained
It’s hard enough to argue constructively, but social media makes it that much harder. This blog post explores nine obstacles to better online political conversations and offers advice on how to overcome them.
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
How to be an Active Citizen
Our Program Manager, Yvonne Su, tells her story of how she became an active citizen in Canadian politics and public policy - and how it made a difference in her community.
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Thursday, July 05, 2018
Here for the people, not the party
In the run-up to the 2018 Ontario provincial election, guest blogger Sam Burton interviewed ten volunteers who worked actively on campaigns for the Liberal, PC, and NDP parties about what motivated them to get involved in formal politics. She shares her insights here.
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Thursday, May 03, 2018
DT and VPU find a new home
We are excited to share that Democracy Talks and Vote PopUp, programs incubated at Samara, will now be housed at the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University under the new Democratic Engagement Exchange.
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Thursday, February 01, 2018
Learning to Code for Democracy
Guest blogger Robert Furtado explores how improving Canadians’ digital literacy, especially in coding and digital media, could help democratize knowledge and skills that are currently reserved to a small elite.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Thinking Outside the Ballot Box
In early June, Samara convened thought leaders, frontline organizers, senior public servants and elected leaders for Thinking Outside the Ballot Box, a community forum exploring how to foster active citizenship and support democratic inclusion for Canadian newcomers.
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Wednesday, June 07, 2017
Vote PopUp: Every Voice Matters
Every vote counts and every voice matters. That's why, during the BC election, community groups like South Vancouver Neighbourhood House partnered with Samara Canada and Elections BC to run Vote PopUps across the Metro Vancouver area. Read their stories here!
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Saturday, May 27, 2017
The New Canadian Normal
What was once considered a fringe idea for how to select party leaders is now the new Canadian normal. Today, on the day the Conservative Party unveils its new leader, guest blogger Harout Manougian tells the story of how this came to pass.
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
Why March For Science?
With the March for Science taking to the streets today, this guest blog looks at why scientists should be engaged in politics, what the barriers to engagement are, and how organizing can help overcome them.
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