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  <title>Just a Gwai Lo</title>
  <subtitle>fun within prescribed limits</subtitle>
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  <updated>2007-01-19T01:04:05-08:00</updated>
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    <title>The Only Candidate Seriously Blogging In Burnaby-Douglas</title>
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    <published>2005-12-03T03:01:10-08:00</published>
    <updated>2007-01-19T01:04:05-08:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Richard</name>
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    <category term="Bill Cunningham" />
    <category term="Burnaby-Douglas" />
    <category term="Filter" />
    <category term="George Drazenovich" />
    <category term="bill siksay" />
    <category term="election 2006" />
    <category term="ian gregson" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://autofree.blogspot.com/2005/11/survived-november.html">Ian Gregson</a>: &ldquo;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 <a href="http://voteforian.com">http://voteforian.com</a> I intend to run this election campaign using bike power and public transportation only.&rdquo;<br />
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 ridingâ€”and not just about the election, but <a href="http://autofree.blogspot.com/2005/07/first-day_26.html">about his experiences after giving up his car and commuting in Greater Vancouver by bicycle or public transit (or both)</a>.<br />
The other candidates do not (yet?) have serious weblogs.  <a href="http://www.billcunningham.ca/">Bill Cunningham</a> as a weblog-like website, but no RSS feed or permanent links.  <a href="http://billsiksay.ca/">Bill Siksay</a> 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 <a href="http://www.ndp.ca/">their Drupal-powered website</a>).  <a href="http://www.georgeformp.ca/">George Drazenovich</a>, whom the Conservatives <a href="http://www.conservative.ca/?section_id=1051&amp;linkTo=true&amp;districtId=1773">list</a> as their candidate, and who had <a href="http://www.georgeformp.ca/blog.php">a campaign weblog</a> last year, has yet to update his site in 2005 (the Burnaby-Douglas Conservative Association has yet to update <a href="http://www.burnaby-douglas.com/modules.php?name=NuCalendar&amp;month=1&amp;year=2006">their calendar for January</a> to reflect the fact that the country is holding an election on the 23rd).<br />
Time passes after writing the above and <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/filter/2005/12/22/gregson">Gregson writes to me that he will not run in the 2006 election</a>.</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://autofree.blogspot.com/2005/11/survived-november.html">Ian Gregson</a>: <span class="q">&ldquo;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 <a href="http://voteforian.com">http://voteforian.com</a> I intend to run this election campaign using bike power and public transportation only.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p>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 ridingâ€”and not just about the election, but <a href="http://autofree.blogspot.com/2005/07/first-day_26.html">about his experiences after giving up his car and commuting in Greater Vancouver by bicycle or public transit (or both)</a>.  </p>
<p>The other candidates do not (yet?) have serious weblogs.  <a href="http://www.billcunningham.ca/">Bill Cunningham</a> as a weblog-like website, but no RSS feed or permanent links.  <a href="http://billsiksay.ca/">Bill Siksay</a> 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 <a href="http://www.ndp.ca/">their Drupal-powered website</a>).  <a href="http://www.georgeformp.ca/">George Drazenovich</a>, whom the Conservatives <a href="http://www.conservative.ca/?section_id=1051&amp;linkTo=true&amp;districtId=1773">list</a> as their candidate, and who had <a href="http://www.georgeformp.ca/blog.php">a campaign weblog</a> last year, has yet to update his site in 2005 (the Burnaby-Douglas Conservative Association has yet to update <a href="http://www.burnaby-douglas.com/modules.php?name=NuCalendar&amp;month=1&amp;year=2006">their calendar for January</a> to reflect the fact that the country is holding an election on the 23rd).</p>
<p>Time passes after writing the above and <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/filter/2005/12/22/gregson">Gregson writes to me that he will not run in the 2006 election</a>.</p>
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