New Affiliate: Political Potshots joins us.
We’d like to welcome Political Potshots as a new affiliate to Progressive Bloggers. If you’re on Twitter, you might recognize the blog owner: “Neil Before Zod” – he can be…
Blog Culture
Bloggers are not dead just yet.
First of all: Happy New Year 2017 to all of my readers. Secondly, thanks to Warren for his nice shout-out to me (and to other long-time bloggers) as proof that…
Some updates; CNOY Walk, Progressive Bloggers, Winnipeg LPC Convention
Briefly – a couple of updates. THe Brantford Coldest Night of The Year Walk in Brantford went very well. Our team Red Warmth (Captained by Danielle Takacs, my good friend…
Celebrating 10 years of Progressive Bloggers today
Today is a pretty neat day – I’ll be in Toronto gathering with some of our blogging afffiliates past and present to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Progressive Bloggers…
The end (or pause) of a blogging giant
You may not have caught this from CalgaryGrit, aka Dan Arnold, so I’ll post a link to it and briefly mention that he is taking a hiatus from regular blogging…
Congrats to Nancy Leblanc, your OLP candidate for Parkdale-High Park
My long time blogging colleague will apparently be acclaimed in that riding on May 7th for the OLP, and like BigCityLib, I am very pleased to see and hear this.…
Another former blogger (David Graham) running for a Liberal nomination
It seems a fair number of bloggers, or former bloggers, are deciding to try going from their grass/netroots activism and translate that into trying to get elected to office to…
Bloggers will be officially accredited at the Montreal LPC Biennial Convention
The official word has come from the LPC: bloggers will be accredited to the Convention, and they are inviting applications for accreditation. Since they’ve sent out a press release, and…
Another Liberal blogging colleague takes the political plunge
It appears to be the week Liberal political bloggers have decided to make the jump from blogging into running for office. This time, it’s Nancy Leblanc, who has been a…
A little shout out to an old blogging colleague running for a Liberal nomination
A brief blogpost on this day to wish my old blogging colleague and fellow Liberal, Jason Cherniak, the best of luck as he runs for the Liberal nomination in Aurora-Oak…
Collecting on a bet and meeting some folks (hopefully)
Well, it’s a quiet weekend, so I’ll just mention in brief that Jim Calder and I have settled on a date for me to come collect on my winning the…
Best tweet on the Blogging Tories ever..
Stephen Taylor probably won’t be happy. The Ottawa Citizen’s Glen Megregor, said this on Twitter this AM about his collective of Conservative bloggers: “Have you seen bloggingtories.ca? Fringe cranks are…
Toronto’s nice in the Fall – so are its eating establishments
Well, the Ontario legislature resumes sitting today. You’ll note in the story about it this morning in the Toronto Star that there is not a single mention of PC Leader…
Google Reader’s closing also about to close BANPC
The Blogging Alliance of Non-Partisan Canadians (BANPC for short) was started in April 2005, 3 months before Progressive Bloggers started. It may be the 2nd oldest blogging aggregator currently out…
If Garneau is conceding, what of the others?
There were a lot of other LPC leadership contenders I’d have thought would concede the race a lot sooner then Marc Garneau did – those folks who didn’t even have…
Blogger accreditation for the LPC Showcase is confirmed (& I’m confirmed going).
I had an email from the Liberal Party of Canada arrive in my mailbox today to those “independent bloggers” who expressed interested in covering the event. Basically, it confirmed that’s…
Political Bits and Bites
– It was a historic event for Kathleen Wynne being sworn in as the first female Premier. A pity that a lot of the MP’s decided not to attend. The…
Bloggers will be accredited for the April 6 Federal Liberal Showcase in Toronto
I’ve been told that by a good source -in his words: I’m told bloggers can use the media inquiry page to register for the showcase (Ed Note: the April 6…
6 Questions Submitted To Several Liberal Leadership Teams
I got the questions finished last night and have submitted them to people I know on 4 of the campaigns: George Takach, Marc Garneau, Deborah Coyne and Joyce Murray. I’m…
A look ahead
SO after a successful OLP Convention where several bloggers were accredited (and others were blogging as delegates and alternates), here’s a brief look ahead at where I hope to be…