Danielle Takacs has a very thorough video recap of the LPC Biennial Convention up on her blog. Also, be sure to check out Jason Lamarche’s collection of interviews, including this one with Mark Holland. As for me, I managed to conduct a few video interviews with MPs in Vancouver, which I promise to have uploaded […]

Well, that was a fun weekend. Certainly not as exciting as Montreal, but the LPC ran a well-organized convention (the Thursday night disaster aside) and the location and weather were so great it was impossible for delegates not to have a good time. For those interested in the “inside politics” side of things, Steve Kukucha […]

It’s a beautiful day for a convention! Registration Liberals campaigning hard to pass their policy resolutions. With enough work, their policy might wind up on a binder that the leader could look at any time he wants! Creative campaigning by the Sam Lavoie YLC campaign…unfortunately the City of Vancouver tried to slap them with an […]

I’ll have some pictures and more detailed updates later this afternoon but, for now, a few random convention observations on Day 1: Thursday 9 am: The (provincial) Liberal signs here are blue…go figure. Thursday 11:45 am: Michael Ignatieff shows up to register, drawing dozens of excited “Michael! Michael!” chants. I suspect the signs, noise makers, […]

I’ll be flying out to the notaSeinfeldconvention tomorrow night. And even though it’s a leadership convention without voting, or suspense, or novelty tambourines, it should prove to be a good time. To begin my convention coverage, I’ve posted interviews with the two Young Liberal Presidential candidates, John Lennard and Sam Lavoie. I’m not a young […]

Why should young Liberals vote for John Lennard? I think it’s a question of building the Liberal Party. I think the Liberal Party is desperate for change, for growth, for rebuilding. I think young Liberals need to be a part of that – I’ve got a couple of ideas, and a lot of passion for […]

Why should young Liberals vote for Sam Lavoie? Well, first of all, I’m the only candidate with executive experience so I have first hand experience dealing with the organization. But I think what people are really looking for in their YLC president is someone who has the right vision for the organization. I see the […]

The use of “Seinfeld” as a prefix in political jargon has become almost as annoyingly common as suffixing “gate” to scandals. The latest example is this weekend’s “Seinfeld convention” in Vancouver (christened as such because, with the golden boy being crowned without a vote, it is seen to be “a convention about nothing”). This follows […]