TVO’s Your Vote 2011 Helps Ontarians Get Election-Ready
September 01, 2011 @ 02:30PM
On Election Day, October 6, the best vote will be an informed vote. Healthcare, the economy and jobs, energy, education - your vote will have a profound impact on the direction our province takes on issues that affect us in our every day lives.
TVO is taking a unique approach to covering the Provincial election, which will effectively complement the daily campaign coverage of Ontario’s news outlets. Since February, TVO has been building the Your Vote 2011 suite of resources across multiple platforms to enable citizens to get engaged in the political process and to dig deeper into issues that matter to them.
Your Vote 2011 is on TV with election issue coverage every night on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, on mobile devices with the new The Agenda with Steve Paikin mobile app, online with yourvote2011.ca, and in public with the Agenda on the Road: Your Vote 2011 tour, providing the tools and the opportunities for engaged public discourse that Ontarians can use to make an informed decision on Election Day.
And on Election Night, tune in to a special edition of The Agenda with Steve Paikin for live election returns and comprehensive analysis of the results.
Here is how Your Vote 2011 will help make your vote an informed vote:
On TV with The Agenda with Steve Paikin - September 6 to October 6
As the campaign for the Ontario provincial election heats up, TVO’s flagship current affairs program promises to keep you informed with in-depth analysis of campaign issues. From the launch of its sixth season on September 6 through to election day, The Agenda with Steve Paikin will cover election-related issues every weeknight welcoming guests from across the political spectrum to discuss and debate the economy, healthcare, energy, the environment and everything else that matters to Ontarians.
Also beginning September 6, every episode of The Agenda with Steve Paikin will be streamed live at yourvote2011.ca. And you can watch The Agenda with Steve Paikin anywhere, anytime with the launch of the new The Agenda with Steve Paikin app.
Online with YourVote2011.ca
When looking for resources to get at the heart of election issues, make YourVote2011.ca your first stop. TVO is compiling a vast collection of resources to help Ontarians learn about and get engaged in the political process:
- Platform summaries of all the major parties
- Exclusive videos including leader profiles from the TVO archive, a day in the life of a rookie MP, election issue-specific complete episodes of The Agenda with Steve Paikin , one-on-one interviews with representatives from smaller official parties, and many more
- An online election toolkit explaining everything you need to know about voting in Ontario including how our electoral system works and what the different levels of governments are responsible for
- Web chats allowing you to engage with other citizens around hot election topics
- Poll visualizations exploring how public opinion is affected by hot campaign issues
- Daily round-ups of election headlines and campaign maps tracking where the leaders are
- Blog posts featuring experts analyzing party statements and policy announcements of the parties, and issue-based blogs with special guest bloggers
- A social media round-up analyzing how the parties' campaigns are playing out in the social media space
- Honoured Citizen, a Facebook game that simulates democracy in a virtual province.
In Public with the Agenda on the Road: Your Vote 2011 Tour
On October 2 and 3, the Agenda on the Road: Your Vote 2011 tour makes its final stop in Mississauga. The tour began in Ottawa in February and travelled across the province over several months to Hamilton, Niagara and Sudbury to hear directly from Ontarians what issues they felt were important leading up to the election.
Each two-day event featured a daylong, participant-led workshop called AgendaCamp that brought together members of the public, community leaders, policymakers, and anchor Steve Paikin to discuss "Citizens' Agenda": the topics citizens wanted addressed in the upcoming election. At the end of the day a unique voting system called dotmocracy was used to rank the issues they thought should be at the top of their candidates’ agenda. The results of each region’s dotmocracy poll can be found at yourvote2011.ca.
The ideas and discussion topics tabled at the AgendaCamp formed the backbone of a special live, on-location broadcast of The Agenda with Steve Paikin the following night.
To participate in or propose a discussion topic for the October 2nd AgendaCamp to be held at Mississauga’s Living Arts Centre, or for free tickets to be part of the live broadcast audience on October 3 at Mississauga City Hall, please register at yourvote2011.ca.
On Election Night
On October 6, a special edition of the The Agenda with Steve Paikin will have complete coverage of the election returns from 8 pm until after the premier-elect’s speech. Steve Paikin’s guests for the evening include retiring MPPs Monique Smith (Liberal, Nipissing), Norm Sterling (PC, Carleton-Mississippi Mills), Howard Hampton, (NDP, Kenora-Rainy River), Victoria Serda, former deputy leader of the Green Party of Ontario and political commentator Jim Coyle of The Toronto Star.
During the first hour of the program before the polls close, Steve and his guests will debate and discuss the "Citizen's Agenda" that emerged from the Agenda on the Road: Your Vote 2011 tour across Ontario. Then, stay with The Agenda from 9 pm on for complete election results and go to yourvote2011.ca for an online chat to have your say about the results.
Quotes
“One of the things that’s been reinforced with our On the Road tour this year, listening to Ontarians about the election, is that there is a real thirst for vibrant, intelligent civic discourse about the issues that matter to them,” says Steve Paikin. “And I hope that anyone tuning in to our program, using our new app, or going to YourVote2011.ca will get exactly that, and find themselves adding to the conversation as well.”
“An engaged citizenry is fundamental to a functioning democracy,” says TVO Chief Executive Officer Lisa de Wilde. “And with TVO’s media toolkit and our extensive expertise in analysis of Ontario political affairs, we can play an important role in getting people thinking about, talking about, and engaged in the political process.”
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Rob Mallysh
speak the real issues concerning failure to honour police enforced access orders -when police can ignore the courts we live in a police state - speak of why the police can ignore 127-1 of the cc.-------mpp,s that think we are stupid -- don,t trust them
September 27, 2011 @ 08:56PM
Shanon and Jair EDSALL
I pray we get the NDP in as they are the working families only hope for a better ONTARIO
October 06, 2011 @ 10:16PM