We made the long list! Only you can help us make the short list.
Well it looks as though our little blog here has been nominated for three 2007 Canadian Blog Awards!
It’s been nominated for:
- Best New Blog
- Best Blog Post
- Best Local Blog
So please vote! Everyone only gets one vote so yours counts! Please help me move up those rankings and place in the top five so I can make the final ballot.
Voting is open now and closes Monday, January 21 at 11:59 PM (Pacific).
So everyone please go and vote here: http://cdnba.wordpress.com
If you like you can always join the “Vote for the “djkelly.ca Blog” at the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards!” Facebook group here.
Thanks in advance for voting!
Also, if you like I’d also recommend voting for some of the other nominated blogs I read daily (who are probably more modest than me and might not even mention they’re nominated):
In other slightly off topic news I’ve been a little busy to post the past couple days. I guess I can stop trying to figure out how to join the Beltline community association (honestly, it shouldn’t be that hard to find contact details for your community association) because we bought a house this past Sunday in Winston Heights/Mountview (16 Ave and Edmonton Trail area).
We’re really pleased with the location although the walk downtown is a little longer.
- Our new Aldermand: Joe Ceci, Ward 9
- Our new MLA: Richard Magnus, Calgary North Hill (PC) – Who is retiring apparently.
- Our new MP: Jim Prentice, Calgary Centre-North (Conservative)
So look out neighbourhood, here we come!
Sleeping and soft porn in the House!
Is life so boring in Canadian politics right now that members of our governments have nothing better to do other than keep themselves entertained? Is it really such a slow news week on the political front that these are news stories? Are we really so lame that we should care about such boring things?
1. Yup, someone was upset at this display:
The all-night sitting provoked some unusual behaviour. It’s normally deemed unparliamentary for MLA to put their feet up on someone else’s legislature chair. But when it’s 9 a.m. Wednesday and the assembly has been debating since the previous day, such manners are generally excused.
Richard Magnus was the Calgary Conservative MLA in the government’s back row, feet up, eyes closed, mouth open, seemingly oblivious to the Liberal hectoring and Tory heckling about this bizarre marathon of democracy.
2. And, more understandably, an NDP MP was upset at this display of a Conservative MP viewing images of a woman in “flimsy lingere” on his laptop in the House of Commons. CalgaryGrit has an excellent riff on the “scantily clad” woman fiasco. The MP’s explaination – after insisting for few hours that he was not looking at such images – is that she was his girlfriend. Although if she was James Moore’s girlfriend that still doesn’t explain why he was looking at half nude photos of her while in the House of Commons. Weird. And kinda creepy if you ask me.
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