Liberals Reject Electoral Reform as Too ‘Rushed,’ Too ‘Radical’: Here’s What We’re Reading

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Here’s what we’re reading today:

1. Committee recommends referendum, proportional representation

“An all-party committee report released Thursday recommended giving Canadians a choice between the status quo and a new, more proportional voting system in a nationwide referendum.

“But the Liberals on the committee dissented from that report, saying the timeline set by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is too ‘rushed,’ and the recommendations of the committee too ‘radical.'”

– Toronto Star

2. Ontario overhauls campaign finance rules with sweeping reforms

“Ontario has passed a sweeping set of campaign finance reforms to clamp down on cash-for-access fundraising, end corporate and union donations, impose tighter caps on individual contributions and put restrictions on SuperPAC-style third-party advertisers.”

Globe and Mail

3. Mexico to Trump: We don’t need you, you need us

“President-elect Donald Trump has convinced air-conditioner-maker Carrier not to move an Indiana plant to Mexico. Mexico’s reaction so far: You can keep it.”

Quartz

+1: Behind Trump’s deal with Carrier – New York Times

4. It’s time to start thinking of Amazon as a transportation company

“Amazon’s newest toy is here, just in time for the holidays. Nope, it’s not a drone. It’s not taking flight at all, although it’s in the cargo business. It’s a 45-foot-long shipping container that hauls a million gigabytes of your precious data.”

Motherboard

5. How Snapchat kept fake news out

“On Snapchat, the name of the game is projecting authenticity, not racking up faves, and the rules of the game are enforced in the way the app is designed. Snapchat profiles do not display a follower count or even let users know how many followers they have. Plus it’s hard to go viral when you can’t pass around a link to an individual’s post.”

BuzzFeed News