Election Act: 329. No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another electoral district before the close of all of the polling stations in that other electoral district.In an election where strategic voting sits front and centre, it seems like the Election Act…
CBC and CTV made the unusual move of disassociating themselves from Peter Kent, former broadcast journalist and now a Conservative candidate in the Toronto area riding of Thornhill. Kent’s promo video (here, on youtube.com) includes praise by Peter Mansbridge of the CBC, Lloyd Robertson of CTV and former CTV journalist Pamela Wallin.
David Ljunggren of Reuters reports on covering the Canadian election amid surreal political perspectives of the economy, and an economic reporter’s attempts to get a handle on Conservative policy positions. The piece is part reality-check, part critical analysis and part humour.
Back in February, media watcher Robert Hackett argued media reform should be a top priority in the impending (even back then) federal election. Hackett saw a disturbing constellation forming: an industry push for deregulation, a new market-friendly CRTC head, and a government bent on pursuing a majority. But between collapsing markets and pooping puffins, only…
Why do newspapers endorse political parties during elections?
If the election in the riding of Peterborough was decided by Facebook friends, the small Ontario city would likely send a Green Party MP to Ottawa on Oct. 14. Social media sites like Facebook are this federal election’s newest – if still minor – battleground. An article in the Peterborough Examiner looks at how that’s…
When this federal election campaign began, I criticized The Globe and Mail‘s election website. It seems only fair to come back and take a second look as the campaign closes.
The Toronto Star reports on the political score-keeping over CTV’s airing of an interview with Stéphane Dion. The Star’s front-page link to its daily poll asks readers…
Art meets journalism: CBC Radio’s The Current ran a documentary about Ontario independent candidate David Page, part of a series on “The Supercommitted” candidates. It’s called “A Quixotic Candidate” — no doubt because Page’s quest to be elected is Quixotic indeed. I happened to catch it and, weary of the frenzy and ideological spite of…
In the final weeks of the campaign, the economy is settling in as federal election 2008’s ballot box issue. But in our rush to define “the” issue, what happens to those other issues? The week’s Big Issue offers a little variety of voice on what matters: Canada-Europe trade talks nearly invisible – A trade deal…