All Photos by Jeremy Mimnagh
Headliner Jason Collett was ready to rock.
Alice Klein spoke about her incredible voting tool voteforenvironment.ca
Avaaz.org’s Ricken Patel also talked about voteforenvirionment.ca. This came right after he reminded us that, “repetition is the hallmark of good organizing“.
John Mac Master proved you don’t need a guitar to rock.
Steve was a better dancer than [...]
1st runner up:
Hard Working Families - Gil Garratt
2nd runner up:
Canadian Animator - Darryl Gold
3rd runner up:
Despotism - Tamara Scherbak
Peterborough based Artspace is in the midst of a hugely successful artistic enterprise. So much so they announced it as a national initiative:
From now until election day to showcase the importance of arts in our community, and the value of arts organizations such as we will send to our Prime Minister an ORIGINAL PIECE OF ART [...]
Yesterday was a good media day for the DoC.
It started with this article in The Toronto Star that took up the top half of the Entertainment section.
Later in the day, Torontoist wrote this awesome post, which it is worth reading the comments to also as writer Johnnie Walker takes on all comers there too.
We got [...]
Avaaz.org will be launching their new video “You Know You Have A Choice” tonight at:
THIS IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE PARTY @ The Phoenix in Toronto
This event is now officially represents a landmark coalition of artists, environmentalists, and ordinary Canadians from all walks of life, who are determined to defeat Stephen Harper on October 14th. It [...]
The Judges:
Paul Quarrington is a novelist and screenwriter. He also plays guitar and sings in the group porkbelly futures.
Daniel MacIvor is an ordinary artist who has been making new Canadian theatre since 1986. He has been writer in residence at the Banff Playwrights Colony in Alberta, the National Theatre School in Montreal and the University [...]
Elizabeth May supports strategic voting in close race ridings according to The Globe and Mail:
“As the leader of a grassroots party, I’m not in a position to yank anyone, or tell anyone what to do. I just think Canadians need to take a long hard look at the potential here to get rid of the government of
Stephen [...]
Friend of the Department of Culture “Mike Canada” has been posting his election-themed comic books online, and this one is particularly good, about the Stephen Harper Conservatives’ mismanagement of the Canadian economy. You can see the full comic at Mike’s MySpace profile. And you can click here to download a black-and-white PDF of the six-page [...]
“Four pickup trucks and a trailer full of boots were brought into the parking lot at Mr. Flaherty’s campaign office. The contents were dumped at the doorstep of the office.
Workers from unions in Tilbury, Woodstock and Windsor travelled to Durham to bring home the CAW’s message to vote ABC: anything but Conservative.”
You can read the [...]
