Food for thought from canada dot votes 2011
In a news release, NDP Leader Jack Layton bragged that his party had nominated the most women of any other party, boasting a “historic first among Canadian federal parties” with 40% of the candidates being women.
It’s Deja Vu for the Green Party. Once again, the party is being told they are to be excluded from the TV debates in April.
Thanks to Jeff for taking this photo
If you disagree with this move (again), you can:
1. Visit http://demanddemocraticdebates.ca to sign our petition, donate, and more!
2. Vote in CBC’s poll on whether Elizabeth should be invited to the leaders’ debates
3. Send a text message to the Chair of the Media Consortium, Mr. Troy Reeb of Global TV on his cell phone at 647-261-3752.
4. Email the news directors of consortium members CBC, CTV, Global, and TVA.
CTV – Wendy Freeman President of News: wendy.freeman@ctv.ca
CTV – News Managing Editor Dennis McIntosh: Dennis.McIntosh@ctv.ca
CBC Jennifer McGuire General manager and Chief of News Jennifer.McGuire@cbc.ca
Global – Troy Reeb troy.reeb@shawmedia.ca
TVA – Serge Fortin rédacteur en chef, au service de l’information de TVA Serge.Fortin@tva.ca
5. Email the party leaders: Stephen Harper, Jack Layton, Michael Ignatieff and Gilles Duceppe. Tell them to press the networks to include Elizabeth May.
6. Visit the Facebook pages of the party leaders, and write on their walls that you want them to demand Elizabeth May be in the debates.
7. Tweet your outrage! Use the hashtag #EMayIn.
8. Post about this on Facebook.
9. Tell your friends and family!
After the election was official this past weekend, canada.votes2011.ca went live, gathering up steam on Facebook and Twitter. It’s a project that I’ve been somewhat busy with for the past ten weeks, in anticipation of the five provincial elections coming up this fall.
The site is built around using the new functionality of WordPress’ Multi-site network, and a subtle domain hack. I’m still adding to the site, and recruiting writers to add content over the next five weeks, and again closer to the five provincial elections in October.
I came across this quote a few weeks ago and I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~John Kenneth Galbraith
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