I heard about this innovative library program during a presentation by Red Deer Public Library’s Director at CLA. For the last two municipal elections, that city’s library has created information pages for all municipal candidates from the mayor to council to both school boards. The candidates provided the information and the library simply posted it […]
I'll still thinking about a post with my thoughts on some of the things the Meili campaign could've done differently to perhaps put themselves over the top. But until that comes clearer, I thought I'd do a post looking at things in the bigger picture. I never get a good response when I call for […]
John Hodgman roasts Barack Obama at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner while trying to decide if the new President is a nerd or a jock (and including a subtle message that perhaps the expectations for Obama were set too high?).
Ryan's concession speech is now up on YouTube. I don't know what to say as I'm still, even a couple weeks later, oscillating between disappointment at how close the result was only to come up short in the end and unbelievable joy when I think about how much his campaign was able to accomplish in […]
Came across this article while doing some unrelated searches. It's short so I'll quote it in its entirety. The cool thing? It's from 2003! I don't know what the Sask NDP uses these days but hopefully they've only expanded their use of open source technologies! (The link back to the original NDP newsletter with three […]
Regina Leader-Post columnist, Will Chabun, has a different take on what Dwain Lingenfelter's role might be in the current political climate by drawing parallels to other times of upheaval for the provincial NDP. He's also got another piece on his blog about the role that a small community branch library at RPL played in […]
If you asked what role the blogosphere played in the 2009 NDP Leadership Race, the quick answer would be “not enough.” Even though three of the four bloggers who were writing regularly about the leadership race endorsed Ryan Meili (myself, Accidental Deliberations, Louis Riel Trail) and the fourth (Buckdog) didn't endorse anyone, the reality is […]
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 […]
