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This particular piece of news doesn’t surprise me at all; that the government is monitoring online forums and message boards (and presumably blogs), and appears ready to start posting rebuttals to any posts that they don’t like or consider “wrong”. I’ve had more then a few occasions where I’ve had commenters post their outrage [...] Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics |
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 | Trackback for this entryAs much as I’d like to believe there is some independent thought going on in the Conservative Senate caucus, I unfortunately have to correct my fellow Liberal bloggers: Senator Lowell Murray is an “independent Progressive Conservative” – just as Senator Elaine McCoy is – and therefore not a member of the Conservative Senate caucus, [...] Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryCapital News Online is an online news magazine run by students in the Journalism program at Carleton University in Ottawa. They’ve recently done a story on the recent furore with CBC and it’s decision to use iCopyright to try and license the use of its news articles. The contradictions of that policy and the [...] Tags: bloggers, CBC, iCopyright | Category: Blog Culture |
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| Trackback for this entryVia Kady O’Malley, we see that CAPP is thinking of doing several things; changing what its acronym stands for, becoming incorporated as a non-profit organization, and more substantively, trying to educate people about democracy and activism: Following the resounding success of the nation-wide rallies held January 23rd, CAPP organizers have begun planning the future [...] Tags: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament | Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryI’ve noticed recently at the CBC website that at their news section, they have fine print at the bottom of their articles stating that “new copyright licensing is in effect”. When you click on that, it takes you to a 3rd party group called iCopyright, which then offers a sign-up fee so you can [...] Tags: CBC, Copyright, fair dealing, fair use | Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entry- Rick Mercer goes after the Conservative government’s use of our Canadian Forces as political props, and calls it a “new low in Canadian politics”. - Mark Francis of Section 15 writes an open letter to Conservative cabinet minister “no one cares about prorogation except elitists” Tony Clement (and avoids addressing him as “The [...] Tags: prorogation, public campaign financing, Rick Mercer, Tony Clement | Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryI don’t often promote places on here I read at, but today I’m making an exception for The Mark, which describes itself as “Canada’s daily online forum for news, commentary, and debate.” I liken it to an online magazine, but regardless, I’ve discovered that site in the past month or 2, and I’ve been [...] Tags: The Mark | Category: Blog Culture |
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| Trackback for this entryThe hinted at reforms to curtailing the prorogation power of the Prime Minister was released by the Liberal Party and Michael Ignatieff at Ottawa today. Here’s an excerpt of the news-release with the proposals they’ve put forth: To prevent future abuses of prorogation, the Liberal Party of Canada will seek to amend the Standing [...] Tags: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament, noprorogue.ca, prorogation, prorogue | Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryJust a brief Sunday observation: I see the CAPP facebook group has gotten a bit of a membership boost today; up to 214 295 members as of now – a boost of 3000 from yesterday morning when I last looked at it. Not surprising, given the good publicity and generally favourable media coverage the [...] Tags: anti-prorogue rallies, Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament, noprorogue.ca, prorogue | Category: Blog Culture |
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| Trackback for this entryMany people have asked whether the tremendous success and growth of the Facebook group Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (now at just under 211 000 members as of this AM) would translate over to the street in the form of today’s protests that are being held. That seems to be the question more then a [...] Tags: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament, prorogue | Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics |
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