canada votes 2008

Free Software and the Canadian Federal Election 2008

Russell McOrmond
September 11, 2008 14:55

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a donor supported charity founded in 1985 and based in Boston, MA, USA. The FSF has a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users. They have sister organizations in Europe, India and Latin...

Service providers must beware informed consumers

Russell McOrmond
September 11, 2008 14:20

CBC's Peter Nowak interviews Liberal Scott Brison, incumbent MP for Kings-Hants in Nova Scotia. Brison is now the industry critic, the Liberals' counterpoint to Minister of Industry Jim Prentice.

How one techie is thinking thus far about the Canadian General Election

Russell McOrmond
September 10, 2008 21:17

While I have had party membership in the past, I am currently not a member of any party. I'm a person with a technical background and have spent a lot of volunteer time in the last decade working on public policy in areas of technology law. If you are a fellow technical person looking for some...

Copyright pushing people to the NDP

Russell McOrmond
September 08, 2008 13:36

I notice a thread on SlashDot about C-61 dieing with the election being called. What I find interesting is how many people have stated publicly that they plan to vote NDP as the party most likely to gain a number of seats which has a reasonable view on Copyright. SlashDot has tended to have people...

Canadian Federal General Election called for October 14

Russell McOrmond
September 07, 2008 12:50

The by-elections are now being extended into a general election. As of the dissolving of this parliament the seat standing was as follows: Conservatives 127 Liberal 95 Bloc 48 NDP 30 Green 1 Independent 3 Vacant 4. read more