Ya wanna good beer…
… 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 –…
Fundraising
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…