Posts Tagged ‘Ontario NDP Leadership Convention’
Andrea Horwath Pre-Vote Interview
We caught Andrea Horwath outside the main room after her final speech before voting. Andrea sheds light on how she would go forward as a potential NDP leader. Many thanks to Andrea Horwath and her campaign for stopping to speak with us in the middle of everything.
1 Comment »A Collection of Andrea Horwath Videos
This is my last post on the Ontario NDP Leadership race. It includes the three Andrea Horwath videos that were part of laforet.ca’s coverage of the Ontario NDP Leadership race. I thought I would put them in a single location to make life easier for folks who are now interested in finding out more about the NDP’s new leader.
I never did publicly congratulate Ms. Horwath (although before shooting the final video with her, I told her off camera I thought she had it locked). I will take the opportunity to do so now.
For me, it has been a very interesting process. I am not a New Democrat, and have never voted NDP before. My motivation to cover this race was due to a lack of proper media coverage of the dozen debates, and six month leadership process by traditional media sources. At first I felt they had a responsibility to cover it, and then I felt I had an opportunity to cover it and now looking back, I’m not sure things like this can’t be adequately covered by an army of new media types who display a similar level of ethics for the purpose of their coverage. Even if they can’t, it appears folks in new media may have a responsibility to become original content generators, should they like to see things like this covered well in the future. I hope those who have viewed the work of Jeff Hume and I agree that we’ve done an even handed job.
If you want to embed these videos into your own blog/website or are interested in seeing the other videos that we shot as part of our coverage of the NDP race visit http://laforetdotca.blip.tv
Andrea Horwath Interview In Between Final Speech and First Ballot Results (Run Time 2:25)
Andrea Horwath Rally – Night Before Victory (Run Time 3:19)
Andrea Horwath Sit Down Interview – Late February 2009 (Run Time 16:47)
1 Comment »Ontario NDP Leadership Convention Emergency Resolution on Stelco Layoffs
This afternoon the NDP passed an emergency resolution in response to the US Steel layoffs in Hamilton and Nanticoke. Below is a video of the NDP’s four leadership candidate’s response to the resolution and the text of the motion itself.
“Emergency Resolution – US Steel Shutdown
WHEREAS US Steel announced on March 3 that the former Stelco steel mills in Hamilton and Nanticoke would be shut down for the first time in their century-long history; and
WHEREAS this will cost the jobs of at least 1,500 workers directly and potentially thousands more in the surrounding communities; and
WHEREAS this is just the latest blow in the manufacturing crisis that has cost hundreds of thousands of jobs in Ontario while the McGuinty Liberal government failed to take effective action;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Ontario New Democratic Party will stand shoulder to shoulder with the affected workers and their families as they fight to keep their jobs; and will
Demand that the McGuinty and Harper governments take immediate action to explore alternatives to keep the Hamiliton and Nanticoke plants open; and
Call on the Federal government to reform Employment Insurance to expand eligibility and benefits, including eliminating the two-week waiting period; and
Demand expansion of the Harper government’s inadequate stimulus package , inclding effective “Buy Canada” provisions, to produce a stronger and faster boost to the Canadian economy; and
Will fight for broader provisions in the Investment Canada Act to protect Canadian jobs for tougher enforcement of commitments made by foreign investors.
ONDP Provincial Executive”
Posted from the floor.
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