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Tag: canada
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Beautiful British Columbia
I was very busy and did not have the time to go on a photo walk per se, but here are a few picts I took while in Vancouver, BC, for Northern Voice 2011.
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Quebec’s NDP Support Was No Leap Left
The poll reveals that not only did urban and rural Quebecers vote NDP, so did anglophones and francophones – a convergence of voting intentions that has not been seen since the days of Pierre Trudeau.
Via the Montreal Gazette.
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Buh-Bye Gilles.
Fourteen-something hours ago, I stated the following:
http://twitter.com/#!/stephdau/status/65076438101008384A few days ago, I even stated on Facebook that I had made my peace with the fact that my (NDP) vote would not really count in my riding, the latter being Gilles Duceppe’s, the Bloc Québécois party leader. I also said I’d still be voting regardless, as my civic duty is important to me.
Well… Am I ever glad I (and 20k+ others) did! Here’s what happened later that day:
Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe announced last night he was stepping down as Bloc leader after his party took its worst drubbing in its nearly two decades of existence. […] Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe failed to clinch his own seat in Laurier-Sainte-Marie, losing to NDP neophyte Héléne Laverdière.
via Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe resigns after losing seat.
Even better, he didn’t even lose to what might have been his usual competition (Liberal). Double whammy.
To put things in perspective, here are the previous election’s results, compared to this one, in Laurier-Sainte-Marie:
- 2008:
- Block Québécois: 24,103 votes
- Liberal: 8,798 votes
- New Democratic Party: 8,209 votes
- 2011:
- New Democratic Party: 23,377 votes
- Block Québécois: 17,984 votes
- Liberal: 4,976 votes
- 2008:
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Doubled-up Canada Geese
Note: there were only three geese flying by. They got doubled-up by the iPhone 4 camera when shooting in HDR mode. 🙂 -
Nanaimo’s Hackathon
In an effort to encourage the creation of new applications, Nanaimo is hosting an Open Data Hackathon on April 30. The city will open up its public data and allow computer programmers free access to it. The goal of the event is to see what kind of creative projects developers can create with the data.
Via Nanaimo, B.C. hosts ‘hackathon’ to help improve local apps.
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We, Canadians, Have It Easy In This Election…
All we have to do is beat the lowest voter turnout in Canadian history to do better than last time…
Get on it people! You can even vote early.
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“Gotta Break Harper Because He Won’t Bend”
This one’s for my Canadian crew. -
Project Democracy, Canada
Let’s make sure this doesn’t happen, shall we?
More than 60 percent of Canadians do not support Harper and his government’s contempt for democracy. Yet, he could win a majority with as little as 35 percent of the popular vote.
