'One-stop shopping' site for young voters

Intriguing offering from The Globe and Mail. Winnipeg Jets defenseman Grant Clitsome and a lifelong friend, who is a former soldier who served in Afghanistan, are involved in a web site project designed to be a non-partisan central information hub for voters (young ones in particular) with, ideally, involvement from all Canadian political parties. Fairly fascinating.

“There’s so much information people find it intimidating,” Clitsome says. “I run into too many people who are not really aware and who do not really have a desire to know what’s going on in politics.

“When you first talk to people about it, they’re skeptical. They have a lot of questions. But as you answer those questions you can sort of see a light go on that this might work. No other country in the world is doing anything like this, where you have all the parties under one roof.”

He added, “I know too many people who are not really aware,” he says, “and do not really have any desire to know what’s going on in politics.”

Source: Roy MacGregor, Globe and Mail