Canada

I spent a good chunk of my academic career studying women in politics — the barriers that keep women from running for office and from winning party nominations, and the impact they might have once they are elected.

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“I PROMISE IT won’t be victim porn.”

Mournful tributes are pouring in after the death of Monique Begin, a former cabinet minister and academic who died Friday at the age of 87.

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What lessons did Alberta’s election deliver to the rest of Canada about representative democracy?

More than 500,000 votes. That’s how many ballots were cast for the top two candidates in Monday’s mayoral byelection.

It wasn’t the landslide win some had predicted but it’s a seismic shift in Toronto politics all the same with Olivia Chow elected to lead Canada’s largest city on Monday, marking a political comeback nearly a decade in the making.