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Posted by Scott Tribe on December 22, 2011, at 7:21 am |
I don’t usually give out endorsements for internal Liberal Party elections to posts, (I’m just one of those “stupid bloggers”) and this probably won’t matter in the grand scheme of things Liberal, but here you are, as events of recent days and weeks have caused me to decide to openly state support for a couple of candidates.
As you’re aware from yesterday, I and others think the LPC new position on blogger “accreditation” – where bloggers who are not LPC delegates either have to go begging to the mainstream media for them to sponsor us, or else pony up 1100$ as a non-accredited “observer” (to pay for the Liberals [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on October 13, 2011, at 10:48 am |
I’ve been on vacation for a week – hence the inactivity here, if you’re wondering why nothing new in a week. I’m still on vacation, but I’ll be meeting up with some of our Progressive Blogger membership (and some invited guests) this Saturday in Toronto for our annual Prog Blog get-together. It should be an interesting discussion on things in general, the new Progressive Blogger site, where we go from here with it, and just friendly chit-chat.
Posted by Scott Tribe on July 23, 2011, at 7:22 am |
As you’ve no doubt heard, a far right extremist gunman who holds anti-immigration, anti-Muslim views decided to vent his wrath on the governing Socialist Party in Norway yesterday, blowing up a government building and then massacring scores of young socialist teenager members on an island. The death toll is horrific.
I’m waiting for those on the extreme right of the blogosphere/political spectrum to declare Canada should be deporting all Norwegians; you know; paint the whole nation of Norway with one prejudicial brush as they do with Muslims, and as they did yesterday before the actual facts came out. The rush to presuming it was a) Al-Queda, and b) declaring [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on June 3, 2011, at 7:17 am |
Part of the reason I’ve not been blogging as much is that I along with my volunteer coder Chris have been working hard on getting a new version new look version of Progressive Bloggers up and going. The site has been crying out for a re-design for several years. It was very hard to modify or to code stuff, and quite frankly, it was a major drain on the server it was sitting on.
We had thought Prog Blog 2 was finally launced yesterday AM .. but realized there was some unexpected glitches in reading pages (it’s based on a WordPress system), that had people scratching their heads. [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on April 28, 2011, at 11:56 pm |
When Stephen Taylor is tweeting this on Twitter:
There must be Liberals out there who would rather vote for Harper than see Jack Layton form any sort of government.
..you know the Conservatives and their supporters sense they are in big trouble all of a sudden.
Why the frack would any sensible Liberal support a Conservative government/party lead by Stephen Harper who has smeared the LPC and Dion/Ignatieff for the past 5 years with attack ads and cheap shots – not to mention the contempt they’ve held Parliament in and been found in contempt of Parliament?
You guys made your own bed with that strategy – so now don’t [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on April 18, 2011, at 9:02 pm |
This caught my eye on Twitter from a blogging acquaintance of mine. Brandie Weikle, who blogs at and is also the editor for the Toronto Star’s parentcentral.ca and healthzone.ca section, is on a team trying to raise money to sends kids who have cancer to Camp Oochigeas, but they’re about 700$ short of their fund raising goal.
If you’d like to donate to her team and help them in their worthy cause, go to the page here to click on a name of the team to donate. I’m going to donate to Ms. Weikle, since I know her, but you can donate to whoever you like. (there are [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 23, 2011, at 5:41 pm |
With an election all but a certainty now, (and I say bring it on), I wanted to make sure I posted this that was passed along to me a few days ago by a CBC news personality – Jennifer Hollett – at Twitter. I was asked if I would distribute it to Canadian bloggers I knew – progressive, conservative, non-partisan or otherwise:
“If an election is called CBC Connect is looking for bloggers to join us on-air. Email connect@cbc.ca with a blog link.
If you want some fame, and are good with speaking as well as writing, write in to them. (I am rather shy, so I won’t be [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 6, 2011, at 11:19 am |
I meant to post this when I got it sent to my email but got distracted. No better time then the present to mention that a new organization has been formed in Canada – Leadnow.ca. Here are some details sent to me from Tria Donaldson, as well as their press release. I’ll mention that I wonder if it wouldn’t be a good idea for these folks to explore a political alliance or affiliation with C.A.P.P – formerly Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament, and now Canadians Advocating Political Participation. Those two organizations might work very well together, as they seem to have similar goals and objectives.
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Based on the successful [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 1, 2011, at 8:28 am |
So some of you might have read this note from Jason Cherniak – former blogger and former administrator of Liblogs (the original Liberal blogging aggregator) – announcing that Liblogs would be no more and that it would be replaced by The Wellington Street Post, which Jason would be involved in and which would be run by Adam Miron.
Now, let me say I know most of the participants involved in this venture – all very smart people. I know Adam in particular, and I like him. However, my first impression of Wellington Post is that it’s a nice site, but I don’t get why you’d get rid of a [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on February 12, 2011, at 8:03 pm |
Are you a Canadian political blogger? You might be interested in participating in this.
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The Political Communication Research Lab (GRCP) at Laval University would like to invite bloggers to participate in a ground-breaking study of the Canadian political blogosphere (Research Ethics Board file number : 2010-289/16-12-2010). Participants must be at least 18 years old, must live in Canada, must have the right to vote in Canada and must have a blog where they mostly or frequently post (more than once a week) on Canadian, international or Quebec politics.
The participants will complete an online survey on their socio-demographic profile, their political practices and their motivations [...]
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