Archive for Elections

Today I signed up to be a pro-Internet candidate at OpenMedia.org. Openmedia.ca is a network of organizations and individuals that has initiated a campaign, “Vote for the Internet,” to stop the pay meter on our Internet and increase broadband access, competition, transparency, and choice.     Read more »

Thanks to Glenn Macintosh, of ecoSanity, for these videos:

The broadcasting elite have shut Green Party Leader Elizabeth May out of the televised Leaders’ Debates.  They don’t want you to hear Elizabeth May speak about climate change, local food, clean air and clean water.     Read more »

A Nanos poll conducted for the Globe and Mail confirms what was obvious to pretty much everyone: Canadians want Elizabeth May in the debate even if they don’t support the Green Party.

So many things I want to do.  Like post pictures of the flyers, postcards and bookmarks we’re distributing; make sure we get literature out in other languages; get caught up on the signs already.  And sleep.

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors: we borrow it from our children.

I am inspired by the visionaries who populate the Green Party and the hope and the fear that drives us all.  But getting anything done about it requires simple hard work.  And that’s what this campaign is all about.  Hard work by dedicated people making careful steps for the better.     Read more »