Just a Gwai Lo fun within prescribed limits [?]

Ian Gregson: “This week the Prime Minister announced the date of next federal election. The big news here is that I will be running as Green Party candidate in Burnaby Douglas. My election web site is http://voteforian.com I intend to run this election campaign using bike power and public transportation only.”

My sympathies lie elsewhere on the political left, but Ian found me through a search for Burnaby-Douglas and sent me a brief email simply making note of the fact that he's the riding's Green Party candidate. He appears to be the only candidate seriously blogging in my riding—and not just about the election, but about his experiences after giving up his car and commuting in Greater Vancouver by bicycle or public transit (or both).

The other candidates do not (yet?) have serious weblogs. Bill Cunningham as a weblog-like website, but no RSS feed or permanent links. Bill Siksay does not appear to be blogging at all (if I were volunteering my time and advice to the NDP—disclosure: I am—I would have a weblog for each riding on their Drupal-powered website). George Drazenovich, whom the Conservatives list as their candidate, and who had a campaign weblog last year, has yet to update his site in 2005 (the Burnaby-Douglas Conservative Association has yet to update their calendar for January to reflect the fact that the country is holding an election on the 23rd).

Time passes after writing the above and Gregson writes to me that he will not run in the 2006 election.