It has been almost a year since I last blogged about Canadian politics on this blog. I have spent most of my time blogging at Progressive Dispatches and focusing on the American presidential race.
Now that I've graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and have been back in Toronto for the summer, it is definitely time to start putting my accumulated thoughts down somewhere and this blog is going to be the place I will do that.
Having lived in the US for the last 5 years, I witnessed the huge growth of a vibrant and diverse progressive movement online. This growth of the "Netroots" has leveraged a number of new online tools and seems to me to be far ahead of anything I've seen here in Canada. The closest thing I've seen here is the online activism surrounding opposition to the awful Copyright bill (C-60). As great as that was, close to 90,000 people joining the Fair Copyright Facebook group, it pales in comparison to what is going on in the US.
One thing I definitely will be discussing on this blog is some of those amazing online campaigns in the US and what lessons can we progressive Canadians learn and implement effectively.
~BT
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