About 30 percent of Canadians get most of their news online. Makes sense to me, information is often hours ahead on the internet.

I read Stephen Harper took a convoy of four cars to cross the road to Rideau Hall. Jack Layton said Stephen Harper quit and he was going for his job. ar arrr arr! While I can appreciate there have been people who had hoped Michelle Jean would not answer the door for the fourth federal election  in three years, it wasn’t going to happen.  While about 4 million dollars per hour  of pork are being dropped by the Conservative Party, it’s less than Paul Martin doled out. 

I’ll be following blogs and a few media people whose writing styles I like.

The Conservative Party has a new website, ready to promote the warm fuzzy Stephen Harper. Given the slow load and juvenile content they’ve had until recently, about this warm fuzzy thing - Anyone buying that?

The Liberal Party rolled out their new website today, (much cleaner, faster load) and like all parties is using every available online resource from YouTube to Facebook. Garth Turner, Liberal MP for Halton has been blogging since will do what he does - walk his readers through the day to day of the job and now, of campaigning. Dion’s english is still painful to listen to, but he’s improved.

The NDP have spiffied up their online presence also.

The Green Party has some content and design catching up to do with their web page, here they are.

If you miss a TV ad your co-workers are talking about, the parties are embedding their ads on their party sites for your convenience.

The CBC is going to be following online content - Susan Ormiston has been tasked with looking at what the chatter is online through blogs social networking, and she is also twittering. Ormiston Online will show the 60% of Canadians who tend to get their election news through broadcasting what’s going on in the vibrant political blogs here in Canada.

The Maclean reporters are on their blogs as usual.

David Aiken (former with CTV) is now a reporter for CanWest who uses his connections, sources and experience well on his blog, On the Hill.

Looking for none-corporate  journalism and independent media?

Want to explore the political blogosphere?  It’s a fast moving rough and tumble place, Canada has a wealth of good political bloggers. Use the aggregators to pick your favorites.

The Blogging Tories, Liblogs, SocCons,  Dippers (NDP) and Progressive Blog aggregators are all on the BDBO sidebar. The posted opinions are strong, the conversations on most blogs lively, angry, funny, heated, argumentative, blunt and as politics are wont to do, bring out the uncivil and the trolls. The majority of Canadian political blogs are wide open to your comments, arguments corrections, boos, praise and positions.

Your turn - any must see online sites for Canadians looking for information?