Brussels is turning to citizens’ assemblies to fix democracy. Do they work?

Alli Deelstra will focus on financial responsibility, conservation and planning for future generations

New office will help facilitate EU’s exchanges with Canadian MPs and senators, says European Parliament president

The collapse of political competition and winner-takes-all mentality has allowed fringe elements to hijack mainstream political parties.

Just months before the 2027 presidential election, France is seeing the launch of three new nationwide citizens’ assemblies.

Citizens’ assemblies were long regarded as exceptional democratic one-off events. But a second generation of sortition-based democracy is emerging around the world.

In 2026, South Korea created something that had never before existed at national level: a permanent, legally established Climate Citizens’ Assembly.

Provincial funding and shared expertise could help municipalities use citizens’ assemblies to rebuild local democracy across Canada today.

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Provincial funding and shared expertise could help municipalities use citizens’ assemblies to rebuild local democracy across Canada today.

Rebates were tax-free payments that compensated consumers for the cost of carbon taxes

On March 11, 1981, when Ronald Reagan visited Ottawa for the first time as president of the United States, he was greeted by thousands of protesters on Parliament Hill. They shouted and held placards ...

Following a Citizens’ Assembly, the French National Assembly passed a law on 15 July 2026 legalising assisted dying and assisted suicide in France.

Fires in Canada are growing year and year, our fleets of water bombers should too

Alternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts

The Civic Standard offers everything from participatory theater to killer mac and cheese. Cofounder Rose Friedman has some advice on bringing neighbors together.

For the North Sea island of Sylt, the high number of tourists is becoming an increasing burden. Randomly selected residents are working together with other stakeholders to develop a tourism strategy f...

In the Golden Age of Twitter, before it was bought up by a white supremacist oligarch and transformed into a wasteland of disinformation and hate, the Canadian politics nerds used to half-joke about h...

To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...

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La philanthrope et présidente du conseil du regroupement Patriotic Millionaires Canada, Claire Trottier, croit que la société peut exiger une plus grande contribution des gens les plus nantis, notamme...