Entries Tagged 'Canada Election 2006' ↓

the Accordion Guy published a great piece today on the Cowboy Junkies today prompted by the fact that Margo Timmins, the Junkies’ lead singer, is giving a solo performance at Sam Bulte’s fundraiser, being held tonight in Toronto. DeVilla notes that when the Cowboy Junkies second album was released independently, the buzz created by word-of-mouth and spreading around cassettes of the song is probably what propelled the band to a major label contract in the first place. There’s also this: A buck doesn’t go as far anymore, contrasting the $250 total that it cost the Cowboy Junkies to record The Trinity Session with the price per plate of the Bulte fundraiser.

Cory Doctorow’s op-ed from Saturday: Trademark political shenanigans. On Copyright law, corporate political funding, and artist-unfriendly DRM.

Toronto Star editorial: Political actors overlook culture. See also this piece from Kevin Garland, head of the National Ballet of Canada.

blog: Negative Comedy. Five new attack ad scripts in the same theme as the Choose your Canada theme.

is voting conservative in the Federal Election on January 23. I weighed in in his comments, and I promised there to make a similar declaration. I’ll be posting that soon.

that the Liberals leaked a memo about how the Liberal outlook is grim in Quebec? This is precisely the message they want to get out - and that Duceppe is kindly helping the Liberals deliver.

Quebec voters have always been the most strategic voters in Canada. They have constantly demonstrated that they will not let ANY party or leader get too big for his/her boots. So for the Liberals this may in fact be the hail mary strategy - convince everyone that the Bloc is going to win an unprecedented number of seats in Quebec and sit back and hope that voters moderate that in their favour.

Goodness knows they can’t actually get their own message out, so this could be the only option at this point for the Liberals in Quebec.