Okay, after five months of almost non-stop political posts, I feel like I'm going to slowly transition back to library and technology posts (with a healthy mix of cute kid too!) But I don't think I'll leave the politics behind completely – I've got a few posts percolating including a few thoughts on the role […]
Ryan has decided not to run in the Riversdale by-election and that's the right decision for a wide range of reasons. (The link I gave is to News Talk 980 and even they mis-spell Link's first name as “Dwaine”! Er, I hope that mistake doesn't go *poof*. )1) It allows a great female candidate with […]
Below is the video that introduced Ryan at the NDP convention last weekend. I'm completely biased but Ryan easily had the best floor show of any of the candidates. I hope someone also uploads his speech because it kicked ass too! And I can't help but take one last shot at Dwain Lingenfelter by observing […]
I happened to be passing through the lobby during the last morning of the NDP convention today when I came upon Dwain Lingenfelter threatening to have a party member charged with assault while the member was being physically restrained by two other people. I didn't see the start of the incident but from what I […]
Well, the race is over and Dwain Lingenfelter did end up winning as most people projected. Though Ryan did make it a nail-biter in the end with Link getting 55% of the vote to Ryan's 45% on the second ballot. As I posted on Facebook, I'm not as disappointed as I thought I might be […]
Shea and I went to the first day of the NDP convention today courtesy of our constituency association. We were a bit late arriving, having to run some last-minute errands for the Meili campaign (ah, the life of a lowly volunteer! ) It was a very interesting day – surprising how many people we knew […]
When I recently told someone I'd just been to the CLA conference, he replied “So you're a nerd then?”“It's worse than that,” I replied. “I happily spent the first day with the Emerging Technologies Interest Group. So I'm like an uber-nerd of the library world!” In that spirit, here's my Geek Chart:Headtale's Geek Chart Here […]
(Click here to read All Ten “Reasons I'm Supporting Ryan Meili” Posts) Since my earliest posts about Ryan I've compared him to politicians like Barack Obama and Tommy Douglas. But as I said when I began this latest series of posts with “#10 – He's Soft Spoken“, I knew this wasn't literally the case – […]
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I've mentioned in passing one of my first experiences when I chose to volunteer with Ryan's campaign. I went to a planning meeting for his volunteers a few months ago. When it was time to ask questions, I had a pretty important one.“What's Ryan's big idea? What's his Medicare?”Dion Tchorzewski looked at me and said, […]
The final numbers for the Meili Money Bomb have been released and it appears that Dr. Meili's campaign earned over $12 000. That's 20% more than the $10 000 they hoped to raise (and I wonder if even the $10 000 figure was a bit of wishful thinking in some ways? To be honest, I […]
