So, I can’t recall if this usually happens in Canada or not, but The Globe and Mail just published its own endorsement for Obama Isn’t the aim of an endorsement to help drive one’s readers to vote in a particular direction? At any rate, the vast majority of Canadians (this one included) would love to [...]
Canada makes the debate
A couple of mentions of Canada last night in the US Presidential debate. First off, FINALLY someone (and unfortunately it was McCain) recognized that America gets a great deal of its oil from Canada. All this rhetoric about eliminating the dependence on oil from foreign countries that don’t like America conveniently forgets that Canada is [...]
What Canada’s parliament would look like today under a system of proportional representation
Thanks to wmtc for pointing me to these rather stunning stats published today by Fair Vote Canada, an organization whose mandate is to promote voting reform in Canada: Conservatives – 38% of the popular vote: 117 seats (not 143) Liberals – 26% of the popular vote: 81 seats (not 76) NDP – 18% of the [...]
Election day
It’s election day in Canada and tonight I’ll be glued to the television and computer to keep track of what’s going on. I’ll be twittering as well, but I was reminded last night of the law in Canada against publishing information about results in one part of the country before polls close in other parts [...]
Candidates I’d love to see win seats in the House of Commons
It was a nice surprise this weekend to discover in the NY Times a story on Tom King running for the NDP in Ontario. It was equally great to find that they included online a 20 minute excerpt from The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour. My students here are about to read his The Truth [...]
Canadian Studies Ottawa Trip Itinerary
Here is the itinerary for our upcoming Canadian Studies Trip to Ottawa which runs from Oct. 23-25. This trip has been running annually since the 1950s and is one of the great traditions of our program here at the University of Vermont. As I do have a few readers of this blog from the political [...]
My American friends, is the US election getting you down?
If so, do I have a solution for you! Just another part of my job here as part of the ELITE recruitment team. (Thanks to Heidi for passing this one along…)
Another historic vote for Canadians
Canadians, it’s time for another important vote. Election? What election? I’m talking about Canada’s Hockey Anthem Challenge! I think many of us were skeptical about the whole contest, but the finalists are all pretty good and it really got Canadians’ attention. Kudos to all of you who submitted something for that contest. Make sure to [...]
The debate(s)
I had a great time last night watching the Canadian leaders debate and twittering about it in real time. Connected to a few other people twittering about it, and got a few reactions to my posts from some of my Facebook friends. It was interesting, too, to discover that CBC was monitoring Twitter and reported [...]