… and give to a mighty worthy cause at the same time? You might remember some posts a while back about a wonderful young man – my wife’s cousin – who was ambushed by cancer. While Brian is now gone, his friends keep his memory alive by doing stuff like
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Impolitical: New troubling allegations on Del Mastro 2008 campaign
“Employees linked to cousin’s company each gave $1,000 to Dean Del Mastro campaign.” Bravo to Postmedia for pursuit of this story. But three donors to Del Mastro’s campaign or riding association, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, say they were asked to make $1,000 donations and were reimbursed by
Continue readingTrashy's World: Hmmm…
… if I wanted to skirt election campaign funding rules, this would be an effective way to go about it. Illegal, but effective. Numerous sections of the Elections Act forbid donors from exceeding the individual limit on donations by concealing their donations and forbid others from helping to conceal the
Continue readingArt Threat: 99 musicians for the 99 percent – Occupy This Album features music by Yoko Ono, Tom Morello, Yo La Tango and others whose names have fewer o’s
If you support the Occupy movement, relish discovering new music, and are gainfully employed, then you seriously need to plunk down ten bucks and purchase Occupy This Album. An autonomous project designed to support Occupy, Music For Occupy has produced this epic compilation album to raise both funds and awareness
Continue readingTrashy's World: Carig Cardiff show in Ottawa…
… a good cause and a great show to boot! A colleague’s wife is running a half marathon for cancer in Alaska in less than two months. As a fundraising event they are hosting a concert by Juno nominated folk singer Craig Cardiff at the RCMP officer’s mess on May 19th. Please see the
Continue readingImpolitical: All the Conservatives’ corporate-like donations
Well, what else would you call this happy set of events? Those SNC-Lavalin execs sure are of a like-mind politically. They all donate to the same two riding associations in Quebec too. So happenstance! A big Conservative winner from the series of donations, of course, ethics poster boy, Christian Paradis
Continue readingTrashy's World: New provincial school fundraising Guideline
The Province of Ontario has recently published the new rules, regs and best practices around how School Boards should police the ways a school raises money for school purposes. For the most part, it is a pretty innocuous doc. But the two bullets in bold concern me. III. Best Practices
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Stories of the Week
After spending the week talking about Liberal leadership on this blog, a brief look at what else is making news. 1. The Harper government has made noise about pension reform, prompting a round of howls from the opposition benches about Harper throwing grannies out on the street. I’ll reserve judgment
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Liberal Change For Innovation
May 2 2011- The Liberal Party had its worst defeat in history. June 18 2011- The Liberal Party holds an extraordinary convention over the phone and online, the first teleconference of its kind in North America. January 11 2012- Despite suffering worst electoral defeat, Interim Leader Bob Rae announces the
Continue readingImpolitical: Leadership fundraising rules a changin’ again – but just for some
The Conservatives love to change the rules surrounding financing of leadership contests while their opponents are ensconced in them. They did it in 2006 to trip up the Liberal leadership candidates then, putting a squeeze on their future fundraising ab…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: We must fight this hailstorm of praise!
Oh, the challenges of fundraising when you can’t blame the opposition or Liberal Senators for defeating your agenda:CPC appeals to party supporters to finance fight against media, punditsWith a stable majority government for the next four years and the…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The CPC funding strategy: always look for enemies.
Now that the Liberals are decimated and the Conservatives have a majority government, that once favourite whipping boy for raising donations among its base is gone, so it will have to revert to other boogey-people.
The NDP it won’t touch for another 3 1/2 years, so it’s decided that the new threat to Conservative Party values is the media:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party is calling on supporters to dip into their wallets to help the party counter a new foe. In a letter sent out in the past few days, Conservative Party President John Walsh is urging supporters to help the party counter a “hailstorm” of […]
Continue readingFar and Wide: Sink Or Swim
I’m not worried about the per vote subsidy being axed, primarily because it demands the Liberals sink or swim based on merit. The former system worked in many regards- the Conservatives clearly politically motivated rather than deep ideological desire-…
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Green Party Starts to capitalise on Debate on Debates?
Green Party of Canada is starting to leverage the debate about the debate, and relate it back to policy, and electoral obectives.
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Green Party Canada: Week 1 of the 2011 Election Campaign
The Green Party is getting great publicity from their exclusion from the televised debate. They should have been ready to turn that into something electorally significant, instead of simply crowing over a bunch of free publicity. Here is how they can really benefit from this almost an election issue.
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/duane-r…Duane is raising money for the Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre.
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/duane-r…Duane is raising money for the Camp Tr…
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/duane-r…Duane is raising money for the Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre.
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: 48 hour guitar marathon
Webcam chat at Ustream This is a live stream of my step-dad Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. He is playing his guitar for 48 hours to raise money for the Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre. This is happening right now. If you’re in Ontario and in the Haldimand-Norfolk area
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: 48 hour guitar marathon
Webcam chat at UstreamThis is a live stream of my step-dad Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. He is playing his guitar for 48 hours to raise money for the Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre. This is happening right now. If you’re in Ontario an…
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