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p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Steve Clift’s Democracies Online — DoWire — has a list of urls that’ll be interesting to anyone following the Canadian elections.
The site is based in the US, but Clift has tailored it to be a primary source, “for what’s important and happening with the convergence of democracy and the Internet around the world”.
The page includes a list of 17 blogs.
It’s a dead certainty it’s by no means comprehensive, but it’s an excellent start and we’ll be regularly featuring clips from all of them.
If you know of other blogs which should be added, we’d appreciate it if you’d let us know.
We’ll check them out every day until October 14.
»»» rabble.ca’s election coverage - http://election.rabble.ca/
The busiest forum on babble is…
…the Canadian Politics forum, of course, with the election just over a week away!
What are the chances of a coalition between the NDP and the Liberals? Or will it be a death struggle between them until election day? With the NDP stealing votes from the Conservatives, babblers wonder whether Layton might just wind up with new digs at 24 Sussex. Heck, we’ve even got Jack’s Cabinet all picked out!
With 39 active discussion threads about the election alone in the last 24 hours, they can’t all be listed in one blog entry, but you can find a list of the most recent discussions happening today.
»»» Paul Wells - http://blog.macleans.ca/category/blog-central/national/inkless-wells/
Inkless Wells
Apparently Paul Martin has a book coming out after the election. (A note on timing: I am reliably informed that the book was always going to come out at the end of October and that the election didn’t affect that plan.) My Le Devoir colleague Hélène Buzzetti has managed to obtain a copy and is full of deets. Remember the 2006 election? It was going great until that meanie Zaccardelli got involved.
»»» David Akin’s On the Hill - http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog
Even though the NDP has had more trouble than other parties with some of its candidates, it managed to get on the ballot in each of Canada’s 308 ridings by the Elections Canada cutoff date of Sept. 22. In fact, it was the only party to do that.
Parties will scramble to get any warm body on the ballot by that cutoff date because Elections Canada sets the national spending limits based on the number of voters in each riding that the party has fielded a candidate — by that cutoff date of Sept. 22.
»»» Warren Kinsella - http://www.warrenkinsella.com
A PIZZA PARLIAMENT?Neither I, nor Bart, place much stock in individual media polls. That said, the way this thing is going - and, of course, the way the economy is going - we could be back at the polls within 24 months.Will Canadians ever tire of minority governments? Doesn’t look like it.
»»» Blogs Canada E-Group - http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/ - In an old, but highly relevant, post (September 12) Arjun Singh says:
5 days in, the media coverage of the 2008 federal election is starting to really frustrate me. Reporting on the gaffes, and the party’s shots at each other is interesting, but how exactly does it help me make an informed vote. What the media is mainly telling Canadians is what we already know:
1) The federal parties have very little love between them
2) Human beings make mistakes, especially when they under considerable stress.What I would rather know more about is the philosophies and platform directions (past and present) of the parties and candidates. I would like to understand the different experiences of the people running.
I repeat, so called “character” issues (ie, i have great character, and my opponent has questionable character) are important, but that seems to be all we are getting these days.
»»» Stephen Taylor - http://www.stephentaylor.ca
Is all of this plagiarism stuff just getting silly or is turnabout fair play? Nonetheless, don’t expect to see this on the national news anytime soon. Some point out that both Dion and Canwest cite the same report. But it is fact that Dion uses the same words to describe the report that Canwest used and this suggests that Dion or his speechwriter cribbed from that news agency.
Also, much like common rhetoric between Harper and Harris, there are likely examples of common rhetoric between Dion and Al Gore or David Suzuki (the climate crisis represents the greatest threat to humanity etc.) but this won’t get too much pick up because common mind and collective thoughts are benevolent on left-wing issues and conspiratorial on the right.
»»» Blogging Tories Blogroll - http://www.bloggingtories.ca
Tory Support Hits New Low - Poll
Harris Decima:Conservative: 32% Liberal: 25% NDP: 21% Green: 12% Bloc: 8% Waiting on Nanos…
»»» Liblogs - Directory of Liberal blogs - http://www.liblogs.ca/
Social Justice All-Candidates Forum October 9
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Posted at/Publié sur Straight Outta Edmonton (Young/Jeune) on/à 2008-10-06 13:48 EDTThe #9 song in the countdown to the 2008 Canadian Federal Election is from one of my all time favourite 80s artists: Billy Ocean. Here he is in “Get Out of My Dreams, and in to My Car.”
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Posted at/Publié sur Last Canadian Exit… on/à 2008-10-06 13:36 EDTThe Campaign 2008 Protest song!
CANADA: YOU HAVE A CHOICEIf you, like me, think Harper’s Conservative party is a danger to Canada and the planet, we now have a rallying cry!
Good stuff. Go download it.
»»» Blogging Dippers - NDP Bloggers - http://www.newdemocratsonline.ca/
What has Keith Martin done for us?
06.10.08.10:23:00The Butcher Shoppe Over this election campaign I have been discussing my local riding with folks over on the CBC Riding talk board for Esquimalt Juan De Fuca. Over the last week people have been coming on and attacking me and spouting Liberal and Keith Martin propaganda, and making personal attacks directed at me.
In my frustration I wrote the following post to one of the friendlier attackers:
Douglas,
»»» Progressive Bloggers Blogroll - http://www.progressivebloggers.ca
by matttbastard So, what did we learn this weekend (besides the fact that Sarah Palin is the spiritual reincarnation of Richard Nixon and John Sidney McCain III has, according Howard Wolfson, jumped the shark)? Well, the European banking crisis is spreading; US bank failures are expected to increase in ‘09; US consumer confidence is next-to-non-existent, with a […]
»»» Blogging Alliance of Non-Partisan Canadians - http://nonpartisans.ca/
The Latest From the Non-Partisan Alliance
»»» More Canadian political blogs - http://www.blogscanada.com/politics
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»»» Politics and Living in the World - http://cardinal47.blogspot.com/
After the easy ride of Week One, notwithstanding his minor warroom gaffes, Stephen Harper’s warm and fuzzy campaign is running into rough water this second week. He is being hit harder by both the NDP and the Liberals in ads and speeches. Dion is finally on the offensive. The economic downturn in the US and to some extent in Canada may become Harper’s Achilles’ Heel.
»»» Mike Watkins - Campaign site reviews and political commentary - http://mikewatkins.ca/tags/election/
Harper delivers speech in 2002 containing plagiarism from materials right-wing think tank first authored in 1998
Unearthed by another independent researcher, today we see once more that Harper has repackaged the words of right-wing thinkers who went before him. This time they are the words of Craig Docksteader, currently the operations manager for a right-wing think tank, the Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy.
»»» Tyee’s coverage of the Canadian Election - http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/
Okanagan a ‘cakewalk’ for Conseratives Day and Cannan
While polls suggest the NDP has the potential to make gains in British Columbia, it’s pretty much certain they won’t come in the Central Okanagan. The province’s third largest metro area is a stronghold for the Conservative party and its predecessors, the Alliance, Reform and Progressive Conservative parties.
»»» Bourque Newswatch - http://www.bourque.org
Dime-a-dozen polls:
cp: Con 34% Libs 24% Ndp 20% Grn 13% Bloc 8%
cpac: Con 34% Libs 30% Ndp 19% Bloc 10% Grn 7%
star: Con 40% Libs 25% Ndp 19% Bloc 11% Grn 6%
Los Angeles Times - , September , 2008
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