Not to infringe on Dale’s territory, but I think this page is really cool. You can use it to see exactly what things any federal MP has done while in parliament. What did they vote for specific bills? How many days were they absent? What exactly did they say?
The guys behind this should be thanked – they’ve combed various horrible resources and have come up with a great way to present the info they’ve found.
Now all I need to do is find out what the other candidates think of the important issues, and voting suddenly becomes much easier.
Here’s a useful election page at the CBC.
Here’s their page for my riding. Looks like it’s either Green or Conservative? That can’t be right? Must be due for an update me thinks.
Very cool. I think one of the neatest things about the web is these cross-linked databases. Another fun thing for political junkies is (hope I coded that correctly) nightly polls.
Whoops. I guess I didn’t code that correctly. Should read “Another fun thing for political junkies is SES Research’s nightly polls, the results of which can be found at http://www.sesresearch.com/main.asp.
Political “junkie” or addict?
That seems a little extreme for me, unless I were a gambling man. I can see daily numbers being more of a betting sport than something that’s interesting. The intro letter even says that their stats last time showed that 57% of Canadian were ready for a change, but that the Liberals were still voted in.
This is like a stock-ticker for political addicts.