Comments on: Election Day Blogging

By: hana

hana — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:58:51 +0000

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By: David

David — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:42:39 +0000

I live in BC and phone a friend back east to get the election results (early) Most folk who live in BC do the same. I consider this to be a basic right and not any business of the ’supreme court’

By: Janice Kelley

Janice Kelley — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:43:39 +0000

Because it is just Commonsense and that is what is lacking.

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:59:58 +0000

Bulte Defends Copyright Reform; Bloggers Respond…

For anyone who questions the growing influence of blogs, check out Liberal MP Sam Bulte’s editorial in yesterday’s Toronto Star. After weeks of criticism from the blogosphere, Bulte finally provided her views on why she supports copyright reform. Min…

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:41:13 +0000

Here’s what I don’t understand: how are results released in the first place? By Elections Canada? If they don’t want them published before polls close in the whole country, why not just wait until then to release them at all?

Can someone please explain that to me?

Thanks.

By: Steve Matthews

Steve Matthews — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:24:25 +0000

Worth noting – the polls in BC close at 7:00. Bloggers will only have a small window of opportunity to do damage.

By: mathewingram.com/work

mathewingram.com/work — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:57:17 +0000

Andrew says let’s play the election game……

My Canadian blogging colleague Andrew Coyne, whose blog gets about 25,000 pageviews a day or so (according to his sitemeter.com logs), makes a special point of commenting on how all his readers should respect Section 329 of the Canada Elections Act, w…

By: Milan

Milan — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:15:20 +0000

Someone left this as a comment on my discussion page for the election.

To me, this seems like a ridiculous and probably unconstitutional law. Firstly, Elections Canada doesn’t have jurisdiction in other countries. Secondly, I think even non-Canadian citizens and permanent residents in Canada are protected by the Charter.

I’m guessing this law exists because nobody has ever taken the bother to get the Supreme Court to strike it down.

By: phil

phil — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:28:36 +0000

“No person who does not reside in Canada shall, during an election period, in any way induce electors to vote or refrain from voting or vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate unless the person is

(a) a Canadian citizen; or

(b) a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.”

Does this apply to Mike Moore? I don’t think he is a citizen, but is he a perm res? If not, when can we expect him prosecuted under the Elections law?

By: David Fraser

David Fraser — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:03:42 +0000

Thanks for that, Rob. I’ve e-mailed this post to a couple of folks who have asked me about this issue in the last few days. This’ll be the first election during which hundreds of Canadian political junkies have blogs, so Elections Canada may be busy bagging bloggers.