Laforet.ca Coverage of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Leadership Race Will Start Soon
We’re about a month away from the Ontario Progressive Conservatives selecting the next leader of the official opposition, and their candidate for Premier in 2011. It’s a four person race, by any one’s standards a wide open field that will come down in large part to folks second and third choices.
Around this point in the Ontario NDP leadership race in March 2009, working with Jeff Hume, I began covering the race and giving candidates an equal opportunity to get their message out unfiltered, while providing other bloggers with some original content to work with as they chose.
Currently, I’m in the process of setting up the remaining interviews with candidates, and hope to have footage to share from these one on ones soon.
As with the Ontario NDP leadership race, my coverage will be done with an open mind, fairness for all candidates and a simple goal – to provide bloggers with original content to work with, to provide a wider audience with introductions to the four candidates who will shape the future of the official opposition, and one of three leaders who will be in a position to form the next government in Ontario.
I have to say, I have sincerely enjoyed my new role as a political active, non partisan. Doing things like covering the Ontario NDP leadership race, focusing my activism on local issues that go well beyond the limits of partisan politics has been quite the experience as well. It is my hope that using new media tools to cover this leadership race will open up the process, the issues and the candidates to folks across Ontario.
Until there is footage of the sit down interviews with the Ontario PC Candidates to post, I am going to share with you a number of my favourite videos that Jeff Hume so expertly produced as part of our coverage of the Ontario NDP race to give you a flavour of what is to come.
Enjoy.
Greg Elmer – Professor of Media Studies at Ryerson University on New Media and Conventions
Campaigns Talking Get Out the Vote Strategies
Andrea Horwath – Just Before First Ballot Result Interview
Andrea Horwath Friday Rally
Emergency Policy Resolution on US Steel (Stelco) Layoffs
Andrea Horwath Pre Convention Interview
Peter Tabuns Pre Convention Interview
Gilles Bisson Pre Convention Interview
Michael Prue – Part One Pre Convention Interview – Michael Prue the Man
Michael Prue – Part Two Pre Convention Video – Prue the Candidate
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