As some of you probably noticed, a government fell last week, unleashing a plague of pollsters and politicians that have blotting out the noonday sun and covered the landscape from Victoria to Fort Lauderdale. On the plus side, their carapaces crunch nicely when you step on them. On the down side we're journalists, so we have to chronicile their comings and goings.
Biz whiz and putative election editor Chinta Puxley promises to turn her attention to the task soon, really. Like maybe, after Christmas. Or sometime in January. You know, when she can get around to it. But in the meantime the rest of us may find ourselves roped into covering the odd rally or debate or candidate treeing. To make things a little easier for us, Joan Walters and the library have thrown together a list of election links which might save you a lot of time. (Or then again, it may convince you to sign up for the Go section....)
OFFICIAL PARTY AND ELECTION SITES
Elections Canada http://www.elections.ca/
Official results, last election http://www.elections.ca/scripts/OVR2004/default.html
Conservative Party of Canda (CPC) http://www.conservative.ca/
Liberal Party of Canada http://www.liberal.ca/
New Democratic Party of Canada http://www.ndp.ca
Green Party of Canada http://www.greenparty.ca/
Bloc Quebecois http://www.bloc.org/
Parliament of Canada-MP biogs, past results, searchable, excellent http://www.parl.gc.ca/
GENERAL POLITICS/ELECTION SITES
Politics Canada-Mostly links and information from other sources, well organized. http://www.canadawebpages.com/default.asp
Running news and peripheral information http://politicswatch.com
Mega site run by UBC, with endless links. http://www.library.ubc.ca/poli/cpwebpr.html
This was an interesting and accurate independent site run by a polisci student in the maritimes. Not yet oeprating for the federal election, but has lots of information that could be use-able now. http://www.nodice.ca/elections/index.php
Very reliable metasite run by the Department of Political Science, University of Lethbridge. Again, not election specific but useful. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/main.shtml
The Hill Times-online Ottawa newspaper http://www.thehilltimes.ca/
POLLING COMPANIES
http://www.compas.ca/
http://www.ekos.com/media/default.asp
http://erg.environics.net/
http://www.gallup.com/
http://www.ipsos.ca
http://www.legermarketing.com/fr/
MISCELLANEOUS
Blogs metasite, with links http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/
Election handicapping-not updated for upcoming federal election. Go look at their predictions for the last election, which are still online. http://www.electionprediction.org
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