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Contents 1 Major Media 2 Unique Sites 3 Government Election-related Sites 4 Blogs About the Elections 5 Blogging Candidates/Parties 6 Best Individual Candidate Websites 7 Satire and Humour 8 Mobile Sites/SMS Features 9 Online Forums and Discussions 10 Political Parties 11 Election Starting Points 12 Unsorted 13 Notes

[edit] Major Media

• CBC - Canada Votes 2008
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/

• canada.com
  • Decision Canada

• CNEWS.ca - Canada Votes
  • http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/CanadaVotes

• Globe and Mail - Decision 2008
  • http://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics

• CTV - Election 2008
  • http://www.ctv.ca/mini/election2008/

• rabble.ca
  • http://election.rabble.ca/

[edit] Unique Sites

• Canadian Federal Election
  • http://www.canadianfederalelection.ca

• Pundits' Guide to Canadian Federal Elections
  • http://www.punditsguide.ca

• 2008 Quebec Election Predictor
  • http://www.predictionshkdp.com

• Election Predictor
  • http://predictor.hillandknowlton.ca

• Election Prediction Project
  • http://www.electionprediction.org/2007_fed/index.php

• Professor Antweiler's Voter Migration Matrix Election Forecaster
  • http://esm.ubc.ca/CA08/forecast.php

• UBC Election Stock Market
  • http://esm.ubc.ca/CA08/

• TrendLines Seat Predictions Graph 2007 Federal & Provincial Elections (presently updated daily for Ontario & Nfld); Russian Presidency Election 2008 & UK 2010 Election Seat Projections updated monthly.
  • http://www.TrendLines.ca/politics.htm

• OpenPolitics.Ca
  • http://openpolitics.ca

• Elect-o-pinion.ca - Twitter + Elections
  • http://electopinion.ca/

• DemocraticSPACE.com - Strategic voting "guide"
  • http://www.democraticspace.com/canada2008/

• Pair Vote - Vote Swapping
  • http://www.votepair.ca/

• Nodice.ca - Polls and Election Information
  • http://www.nodice.ca/elections/canada/

• Confeederation - Aggregating Candidates Blogs
  • http://confeederation.ca/

[edit] Government Election-related Sites

• Elections Canada
  • http://www.elections.ca

[edit] Blogs About the Elections

• rabble.ca's election coverage
  • http://election.rabble.ca/

• Paul Wells
  • http://blog.macleans.ca/category/blog-central/national/inkless-wells/

• David Akin's On the Hill
  • http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog

• Warren Kinsella
  • http://www.warrenkinsella.com/musings.htm

• Blogs Canada E-Group
  • http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/

• Stephen Taylor
  • http://www.stephentaylor.ca

• Blogging Tories Blogroll
  • http://www.bloggingtories.ca

• Liblogs - Directory of Liberal blogs
  • http://www.liblogs.ca/

• Blogging Dippers - NDP Bloggers
  • http://www.newdemocratsonline.ca/

• Progressive Bloggers Blogroll
  • http://www.progressivebloggers.ca

• Blogging Alliance of Non-Partisan Canadians
  • http://nonpartisans.ca/

• More Canadian political blogs
  • http://www.blogscanada.com/politics

• Politics and Living in the World
  • http://cardinal47.blogspot.com/

• Mike Watkins - Campaign site reviews and political commentary
  • http://mikewatkins.ca/tags/election/

• Tyee's coverage of the Canadian Election
  • http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/

• Bourque Newswatch
  • http://www.bourque.org

• Decision Canada 2008 - Just a Stub
  • http://decisioncanada2008.blogspot.com/

[edit] Blogging Candidates/Parties

List only those candidate sites updated most days.

Allow public comments.

• Garth Turner - Liberal Party of Canada Candidate for Halton
  • http://www.garth.ca

• Michael Byers - NDP candidate for Vancouver Centre
  • http://www.electmichaelbyers.ca

Without public comments.

• Carolyn Bennett - Liberal
  • http://www.carolynbennett.ca

• Micheal Ignatieff
  • http://www.michaelignatieff.ca/blog/

This website features an open policy discussion forum where supporters and potential supporters can share ideas. Individuals may submit policy ideas 1000 words or less to be considered for feature on the website in a prominent place. An open bulletin board discussion amongst users is ongoing on numerous topic areas. Login is neccessary but no contact info is required.

[edit] Best Individual Candidate Websites

• Tom King - NDP - Guelph
  • http://guelphndp.ca/

• Candidate lists from ...
  • Wikipedia
  • Nodice

[edit] Satire and Humour

• The Hammer: Canadian Satire, Humour and Hard-Hitting News
  • http://www.thehammer.ca/

• Rick Mercer's Blog
  • http://rickmercer.blogspot.com/

• Phoney Harper
  • http://twitter.com/phoneyharper

[edit] Mobile Sites/SMS Features

• Name here
  • http://

[edit] Online Forums and Discussions

• PEIinfo.ca's Federal Election Talk
  • http://www.peiinfo.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=22

• Digital Copyright Canada forum (Copyright, Lawful Access, Patents and other Technology Law)
  • http://www.digital-copyright.ca/

• Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) (Election 2005 link soon)
  • http://www.cippic.ca/

• Rabble Election Forum
  • http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=forum&f=1

[edit] Political Parties

• Bloc Quebecois
  • http://www.presentpourlequebec.org

• Christian Heritage Party
  • http://www.chp.ca/

• Communist Party of Canada
  • http://www.communist-party.ca

• Conservative Party of Canada
  • http://www.conservative.ca/
    • http://www.notaleader.ca/
    • https://mycampaign.conservative.ca/
    • http://facebook.com/pages/Stephen-Harper
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/30107029@N04/
    • http://twitter.com/PMHarper
    • http://www.youtube.com/cpcpcc
    • http://friendfeed.com/pmwebupdates
    • http://www.myspace.com/pm_harper

• Green Party of Canada
  • http://www.greenparty.ca/
    • http://demanddemocraticdebates.ca/
    • http://youth.greenparty.ca/

• Liberal Party of Canada
  • http://www.liberal.ca/
    • http://www.thisisdion.ca/
    • http://scandalpedia.ca/
    • http://facebook.com/pages/Stephane-Dion
    • http://www.youtube.com/liberalvideo
    • http://twitter.com/liberaltour
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/30351505@N05/
    • http://www.myspace.com/dionliberal

• New Democratic Party of Canada
  • http://www.ndp.ca/
    • http://youthunited.ndp.ca/
    • http://orangeroom.ca/
    • http://facebook.com/pages/Jack-Layton
    • http://www.youtube.com/user/NDPCanada
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndpcanada
    • http://twitter.com/jacklayton
    • http://friendfeed.com/jacklayton

[edit] Election Starting Points

• Open Directory - via Google
  • http://google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/Canada ...

• Canadian federal election, 2008
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_2008

• Nodice Elections
  • http://www.nodice.ca/elections

• Politics Watch
  • http://www.politicswatch.com/

• Planet Vote
  • http://www.planetvote.net/

• About.com Canadian Federal Elections
  • http://canadaonline.about.com/od/federalelections/Federal_Elections_in_Canada.htm

• Yahoo
  • http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/Elections ...
  • http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Canada ...

[edit] Unsorted

• Cancan: Canadian Candidates
  • http://cancan.waglo.com/dataface/

• Democracy Watch's Election Guide
  • http://www.dwatch.ca/Federal_Election_2008.html

• Fair Vote Canada
  • http://www.fairvotecanada.org/
  • http://www.orphanvoters.ca/

• Make Poverty History
  • http://makepovertyhistory.ca/en/take-action/ ...

• Vote for Climate
  • http://voteforclimate.ca/

• Vote for Environment
  • http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/

• Vote for Environment 2008
  • http://www.voteenvironment2008.org/

• De Smog Blog Election Focus - http://desmogblog.com
  • http://elections.desmogblog.com

• Anything but Conservative
  • http://anythingbutconservative.ca/

• Avaaz Campaigns
  • http://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_harper

• I Believe in Open - a project of http://visiblegovernment.ca/
  • http://ibelieveinopen.ca/

• Wack the PM
  • http://whackthepm.ca/

• Visual Essay
  • http://www.frankejames.com/debate/

• Gov Tweets
  • http://www.govtweets.ca/

• Our Parliament - Voting Records of MP's
  • http://ourparliament.ca

• Net Prime Minister
  • http://netprimeminister.ca/

• Apathy is Boring
  • http://apathyisboring.com/

[edit] Notes

Scores of DoWire members helped build a simple and comprehensive list of election related websites in the UK elections. Now we are doing it for Canada.

Simply find the right section, press edit, and insert a link in the proper place once you create an account on this wiki.

Also, for those "tagging" we are using "canada08" for election-related tags on del.icio.us and other services.