As Canadians head to the polls, rumours of manipulation and fraud are swirling.
Now that the polls are predicting a Liberal win on Monday, I’m starting to worry about how hardcore Pierre Poilievre followers will react if their party is, in fact, handed another defeat. In this age of radical polarization, Poilievre superfans are already furious with the Liberal establishment. How will they feel if the Liberals win again, especially when the Tories were so close to victory just a few months ago? |
Chris Tenove is also worried about discontent among disappointed voters. He’s the assistant director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at UBC, and he’s tracking a rise in allegations of election fraud in Canada. In partnership with the Canadian Digital Media Research Network at McGill University, he’s created a real-time social media monitoring system to track what Canadians say online about the possibility of a stolen election. The vast majority of Canadians have faith in our voting system, but there’s a growing group that harbours suspicion, made up of people who already distrust government institutions. Tenove’s research shows that narratives of election manipulation are on the rise in Canada–particularly among Conservative voters. In a story for Maclean’s, Tenove gives a warning: “In an information system this dysfunctional, the public can come to distrust even the fairest of elections.” Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe to the magazine here. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
This federal election will be the most transformative in a decade. For the first time in years, there’s a chance that the federal Conservatives will take power—and CPC Leader Pierre Poilievre has promised to fix what he calls a “broken” Canada. Here’s a look at who stands to gain in Poilievre’s Canada. |
At the end of this month, Canadians will head to the polls to determine who forms the next government. What’s at stake? “Whether Canada can survive as a viable country in a world lurching toward chaos—and what our future might look like if it does,” writes pollster Frank Graves in this essay for Maclean’s. In this essay, Graves describes why this could be Canada’s last chance to reject the authoritarian reflex sweeping through Western democracies. |
At the age of 31, Noah Tomaschoff learned his parents had been harbouring a secret. When he told them he planned to take a DNA test, they confessed: he’d been conceived via a sperm donor. Tomaschoff, an only child who spoke fluent Hebrew, discovered he has zero Jewish ancestry and over 35 half-siblings. In the aftermath, he wrote Our Little Secret, a cathartic comedy that took home Toronto’s Best of Fringe award in 2023 and sold out Edinburgh Fringe. Now, it’s getting its first mainstage treatment in Montreal. |
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