This article was written by Liam Devitt Peter Hurd-Watler, U of L student and CEO of tech start-up Veras has big ideas for the future of secure electronic voting. As more and more of the things we need to do in our lives, from ordering groceries to checking our bank accounts, are able to be done easily with our phones, why not voting? That’s what Peter Hurd-Watler, a fourth year U of L Management and Urban and Regional Studies student and CEO of Veras Technologies Inc. is saying. Hurd-Watler was talking to his roommate during the lead up to the 2019 provincial election. His friend, who grew up in an…
This article was written by Sorcha DeHeer The department of political science and the Institute for Liberal Studies is hosting an event this Friday, 13th that will feature a lecture by discredited United Conservative politician Caylan Ford. Ford resigned from the party in 2019 after lamenting the “replacement of white peoples in their homelands”. In a text conversation verified by CBC News, Ford also criticizes the lack of compassion shown to white-supremacist groups: “When the perpetrator is an Islamist, the denunciations are intermingled with breathless assurances that they do not represent Islam, that Islam is a religion of peace, etc.,” Ford wrote. “When the terrorists are white supremacists, that kind…
