Canadian poliblog

Darren Barefoot points us to BlogsCanada. It's a:

non-partisan group blog with people posting from all over Canada, of all political persuasions. The blog was started and is hosted by Jim Elve, a hub of all things Canadian and bloggish. Topics are examined and hotly debated, and I think that it's provided a clearing house and focus point for the online campaign...

At the moment, three candidates are vying for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. This has provided a sort of dress rehearsal for the blog, and gotten things off to a flying start. Reflecting developments in the States, there's been plenty of discussion of the online communities that the three candidates are building. In truth, none of them seem to have clued in to Dean's success in the States. For example, the most talked-about candidate, Belinda Stronach, has a weblog (http://www.belinda.ca/Belinda/english/belindablog.asp),
but it doesn't permit public commenting and hasn't been updated for 2 weeks. Not to mention that her site looks like Martha Stewart's.