Roundup: Online voting scare

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There was a story on Blacklock’s Reporter yesterday morning that used Access to Information documents to suppose that Elections Canada was moving ahead with electronic voting, despite the fact that the electoral reform committee hadn’t even made any recommendations around it. As it turns out, that’s not what they were up to, but it nevertheless touched off a discussion over Twitter about reasons why electronic voting is still a bad idea, and why never is still too soon to even start contemplating it.

Good reads:

  • We finally got some decent explanations of ranked ballots from The Canadian Press, including a list of pros and cons and the Australian example.
  • Research is showing that self-radicalized individuals tend to be drawn to ideas behind religion – no matter how ill-informed those ideas may be.
  • Harjit Sajjan is saying that any military deployment in Africa will likely be for the long haul.
  • Ralph Goodale committed funds to immigration detention – both to upgrading facilities and exploring alternatives to locking up claimants.
  • Here’s a look at the future office of the Prime Minister in the West Block, once Centre Block closes for renovations.
  • The cost of the government’s web renewal is spiralling out of control. Look surprised, everyone!
  • Jody Wilson-Raybould’s ethics screens include a BC non-profit run by a distant cousin. Just in case.
  • The government has announced the panel that will be reviewing our environmental assessment laws and processes.
  • Two months from when CETA is due to be signed in Belgium, there remains confusion and resistance among European countries.
  • The government wants the RCMP to look into that Canadian company that sold armoured vehicles to South Sudan and Libya by way of loopholes in the law.
  • People think Charlie Angus or Olivia Chow should run for NDP leader.
  • Stephen Gordon explains the concept of economic rents, and what it means with a global economy that is turning insular.

Odds and ends:

CBC checks in with former NDP MP Jack Harris after his surprising election loss.

While in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Mark Critch photobombed the PM – shirtless, of course.