With a federal election underway and a provincial election coming up later this year, I’ve been thinking about “what are the main factors involved in getting a candidate elected?” This is what I’ve come up with (ranked roughly in order of importance) but would love to hear things I missed (or mis-ranked). 1. Name Recognition […]
We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta. She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]
A few random thoughts on Internet (or lack thereof) during our recent week-long holiday in Cuba… I am happy to report that I didn’t have any seizures or meltdowns after a week without Internet access of any kind. (In comparison, even when we went to Mexico in 2003, I ended up going to a nearby […]
Why there’s still a US Embargo against Cuba, especially since the Cold War is over and it’s now easier for a US citizen to travel to Moscow than Havana, is a question I’ve pondered in the past but especially since our recent trip. Here are a few theories I’ve come across… 1. After I got […]
Apparently I wasn’t the only one who got inspired by Dwain Lingenfelter talking about his father at the recent NDP convention. The NDP candidate in my area, Jaime Garcia, writes about the inspiration his own father has been to him. Since the federal election’s been called, there have been lots of people grumbling that it’s a […]
How can all of YouTube not have a version of Bob Dylan doing “Political World”? Seriously??? Okay, here’s a cover by some dude in his bedroom…
The Sask NDP’s convention is over and in just over a month, we’ll be having a federal election as well. So moving from provincial to federal politics, here are a few interesting articles & sites I’ve come across: Three Hundred & Eight – a Canadian version of the popular US election forecasting site, Five Thirty […]
I’m spending my weekend as a delegate at the provincial NDP convention and it’s a bit different experience than my first time attending which was the leadership race a couple years ago. This year’s a bit more subdued compared to that exciting time of course. But this year’s convention is equally intriguing for other reasons, […]
I’m at the NDP convention this weekend and one fun thing they did is release a YouTube playlist of all the candidate’s favourite songs. Reflecting the diversity of the party, there’s classics and country and indie and metal and dance. If you can’t be at the after parties, it’s the next best thing! One other […]
