I asked him why the New Democratic Party was canvassing in a non-election year—technically just after an election that resulted in a minority government—and he said that the NDP was doing ongoing fundraising. He was asking for people who already supported the NDP to sign up for monthly withdrawals either from a bank account or credit card, and I didn't have the heart to do it, saying, meekly, that I would support the NDP on an ad hoc basis. (I support the party federally, but provincially I'm currently politically agnostic.) He also does canvassing for Amnesty International, the SPCA and some other organizations I'm forgetting, but the next few months he was working "for" (contracted out, actually) the NDP.
I went first to ask his supervisor Dusty because as a trainee, he wasn't sure if it was okay that I could take his picture. I ran into Colin, who said I was sent on "a wild toque chase".
January 10th, 2006
To update my article about Burnaby-Douglas candidates blogging, it appears that Bill Cunningham's site is now a weblog, which Robert at Burnaby Politics calls inane. He and/or the staffer writing the weblog is using Blogger, so you can subscribe to his Atom feed. Conservative candidate George Drazinovich's weblog is up and running, but with no permalinks and no feed? NDP Candidate Bill Siksay and Green candidate Ray Power (not Ian Gregson as reported in my article last month) appear not to be blogging.
I've been relying on the aforementioned Burnaby Politics weblog for coverage of the candidates for the riding in which I live.
