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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 [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on February 11, 2011, at 8:40 am |
I found out late last night that “Penlan” of the blog Politics For The People has passed away this week. We are losing far too many good people out here; first Bruce Mcdonald this past December, and now this bit of news.
She hadn’t blogged much recently, as you’ll see from her last blogpost, but she had been especially prolific in her Tweeting on Twitter, just up to the time before she passed away. She talked and debated with a lot of folks on Twitter (including me). That is seen by the fact two nationally syndicated columnists – David Akin and Susan Delacourt – have taken it upon [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on December 14, 2010, at 8:00 pm |
I was on Facebook and I saw my Liberal blogging colleague Jeff Jedras responding to a “critique” of a National [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on December 11, 2010, at 7:18 pm |
So the memorial for him was last night (Friday). It was well attended from what I understand, and at least a couple of Bruce’s online progressive bloggers friends – Impolitical and Rick Barnes – made it to the memorial. There may have been others; I just haven’t heard from them yet. Rick wrote a blogpost about that actually, as well as some other memories he had of Bruce.
I’ll give you a brief recollection from my perspective on Bruce. I’ve already said that I’ve met him on an occasion or 2 when we’ve had our Progressive Bloggers get-togethers.. but my most recent recollection of him was a long heated [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on December 6, 2010, at 6:20 pm |
Bruce blogged at at Canuck Attitude. I have just heard this evening that he passed away last week, according to his family at his Facebook page.
There are some tributes being left on the page, and I encourage you to leave something there if you feel so compelled. His family members say there is some tribute of some sort being planned for this upcoming Friday (Dec 10).
I’ll say here what I said at his Facebook page, and at the Progressive Bloggers website: I’ve met Bruce at a Progressive Blogger event or 2. I found him to be a real funny guy, very intelligent, very passionate. and a prolific [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on December 3, 2010, at 10:31 am |
You might think that to be a rather simplistic argument, but if you read this report titled “Welcome to Parliament”, published by Samara Canada, you might not think it such a far-fetched argument. This quotation below is a series of interesting (and troubling) observations they’ve come to in this report after interviewing 65 former MP’s:
The MPs acknowledged arriving in Ottawa feeling largely unprepared for what lay ahead. They recall their initial orientation to Parliament as hurried, slap-dash or lacking altogether. They had little initial sense of where to focus and their assignments seemed to be allocated at random. Most MPs entered public life with the determination to create [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on November 25, 2010, at 8:41 am |
..and you can’t just make certain untrue statements about someone else without consequences. “Free speecher” Ezra Levant found that out, and now so has far-rightwing blogger Mr. Patrick Ross. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person, I might add.. he’s been trolling and flaming on Progressive and Liberal blogs comment boards – and from his own blog - for years. It finally caught up to him.
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