{"id":5277,"date":"2014-10-16T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2014-10-23T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:00:25","slug":"telford-quoted-in-chilliwack-times-story-on-voter-apathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/10\/16\/telford-quoted-in-chilliwack-times-story-on-voter-apathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Telford quoted in Chilliwack Times story on voter apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political science professor Hamish Telford<\/strong> was quoted in an Oct 9 article in the Chilliwack Times<\/em> about voter apathy in municipal elections.<\/p>\n

Here’s an excerpt from Paul Henderson’s story, quoting Telford on student awareness:<\/p>\n

Telford said he taught three classes on Canadian politics last term\u2014probably 110 students\u2014and as a big, bad professor he made his students read a national newspaper, either the National Post<\/em> or the Globe and Mail.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI asked how many of them are regular readers and out of 110 there was one, a senior citizen,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Telford said young people choose to use their devices for other purposes.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot many of them are on Twitter and if they are, they are following Justin Bieber not you or me or Andrew Coyne.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the solution? Telford doesn\u2019t offer an easy one. Civic engagement, however it\u2019s done, is critical.<\/p>\n

Telford’s new book, Rules of the Game: An Introduction to Canadian Politics<\/em>, takes a look at the democratic deficit locally, in B.C. and across Canada. The book is available at the UFV bookstore and Amazon.<\/p>\n

More here: http:\/\/www.chilliwacktimes.com\/news\/278619741.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political science professor Hamish Telford was quoted in an Oct 9 article in the Chilliwack Times about voter apathy in municipal elections. Here’s an excerpt from Paul Henderson’s story, quoting Telford on student awareness: Telford said he taught three classes on Canadian politics last term\u2014probably 110 students\u2014and as a big, bad professor he made his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}