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PodCAST-A-Matic:
The Second Fair Deal Podcast

Posted by Kevin on 5/27/2005 @ 5:09 pm

The Second Fair Deal Podcast, Sponsored by Grassroots Enterprise, Can Be Downloaded Here (right-click on the link, save target as…grab the MP3 file).

(If you don’t know what a podcast is, then go here and watch a four minute movie about it).

This is the second Podcast from Grassroots Enterprise that featured the Fair Deal campaign (check out this post to listen to the first podcast and learn more about Fair Deal).

This Podcast features 20 minutes and 57 seconds of spills, chills and intrigue, as one American observer talks to yours truly about recent events on the Fair Deal website. We delve into the targeting of Loyola Hearn and Norm Doyle last week, the Stronach incident, the comparatively boring American political climate, getting yelled at by the LEFT and the RIGHT, Fair Deal strategy as the Accord legislation “plods through the entrails of Parliament", and most importantly, a victorious pronunciation of the word “NewfoundLAND” by the interviewer. This is historic.

Hey, if you listen to this Podcast, then please drop me a line or leave a comment. If you really love this Podcast and would like to subscribe, then be sure to visit Podcast Alley. Vote for the Grassroots Enterprise Podcast feed.

Special thanks to the intrepid media-maven Mike Panetta for his audio expertise.

Off to a long weekend. Current action trickling away, with over 26,000 letters sent to the Liberal MPs and Paul Martin. Next week, keep the pressure on. Take Action here, if you haven’t already.


12 Comments

  1. My oh my what wonderful technology! Great comments and discussion. Well said, well put, well done. Just getting an American (that is a US american) to pronounce Newfoundland correctly is miracelous! Keep it up and maybe someday we may let the US join us.

    Comment by jeremiah — 5/27/2005 @ 5:55 pm

  2. Nothing about Kevin being recalled to Canada to run in the next election!?

    B’ys, yer slippin’…

    Just kidding. Great job!

    Fred from CBS

    PS I e-mailed the president and the VP of the finance committee. No response from either but the VP (M. Loubier) just deletes without reading!
    I sent a second e-mail to him in French, apologizing for not translating the first one. He just deleted that one withont reading it too!
    People…

    Comment by Fred Harris — 5/28/2005 @ 2:33 am

  3. Well done Fred. This is the kind of thing we should continue to do. If 100 people everyday took the time to send a fax to each of the Finance Committee Members, we’d achieve a solid persistent trickle.

    Comment by Kevin — 5/28/2005 @ 8:30 am

  4. Kevin:

    Listened to both Podcasts, great work, this technology gives one pause, as to how it might be used and expanded to acomplish the goals of this site, and political activism in general. The opening theme music on the Podcast was very fitting to the topic, and indeed would be equally appropriate on the Fair Deal site.

    I think you’ve started something that will prove invaluable in giving tiny Newfoundland and Newfoundland Activist (no matter their political leanings) a much larger and recognized presence on the Canadian Political scene.

    Again thanks for all your hard work.

    Comment by Max — 5/28/2005 @ 1:09 pm

  5. Anyone read Bill Rowe’s colum in The Telegram today? Labrador may indeed become a territory at some point in the future (40 or 50 years or so). Wonder how that would come about? No other area which has achieved territoral status has actually been a part of a province?? I must say that I agree with him on one point and that is the tedious name. Should have left it Newfoundland and renamed the island portion.

    Comment by jeremiah — 5/28/2005 @ 1:25 pm

  6. Great broadcast. Keep up the good work.

    Comment by Myles — 5/31/2005 @ 1:42 pm

  7. “usually it takes a year to pass a budget bill.”
    Scott Reid, Paul Martin’s Director of Communications on a May 26, 2005 broadcast of CBC Newsworld’s Politics.

    Well, Scott seems determined to defend the lads who are delaying this accord at every step… from the initial 180 promise to the grima wormtounge style 7 months of weaseling to the present and continued holding of this deal hostage.

    The Liberal-NDP coalition on the Finance Committee denied an immediate debate and vote on a motion yesterday that would expedite the
    implementation of the Atlantic Accord.

    odd move… deny debate on such a matter… I guess their bogey man stories don’t hold up to the light of day.

    Comment by Liam O’Brien — 6/1/2005 @ 10:41 am

  8. Speaking of boogeyman, Liam, do you have any of that on Grewal’s obviously doctored tapes.

    There’s a guy facing an investigation for taking cash in exchange for political favours, looking to forestall the investigations who then goes public with a bunch - but only part of a bunch - of tapes, yet the ones he goes public with have obviously - really obviously been doctored.

    This is so pathetic it is beyond laughable and yet the Connie Comms director manages to keep a straight face as he defends the new Secret Agent 86 from CON-trol, one Gurmant Grewal.

    Give it a rest, Liam.

    Call your buddies. Tell them to pass the bill and get on with it.

    Then maybe the Cons can solve their evident internal problems and Loyola can go trouting.

    Comment by Ed Hollett — 6/3/2005 @ 5:45 am

  9. Ed, you’re usually an on-topic sort of guy. Never have I seen such a defelection in all my life! I’m trying to figure out what Grewal has to do with the Atlantic Accord.

    When you’re done explaining that one, explain why This website exists. Then explain why an offshore revenue arrangment isn’t already 2 years old or at least 6 months or 2 months old…

    Comment by Liam O’Brien — 6/3/2005 @ 1:51 pm

  10. Ed, try to be less of a partisan next time and answer the question. Don’t assume I feel one way or the other about Grewal. More importantly, don’t try to change the subject.

    Comment by Liam O’Brien — 6/3/2005 @ 2:01 pm

  11. As I said, Liam, call your buddies in Ottawa and tell to stop trying to split the budget into tiny pieces.

    Just get on with it; pass the thing as the mayors across the country are asking.

    it’s preally pretty simple.

    Rather than drag in some comment made by Scott Reid, just go straight to the source of the hang: the Conservatives

    Comment by Ed Hollett — 6/3/2005 @ 4:06 pm

  12. The “some comment” in question is a key comment.

    This deal would be AT LEAST two years old already but for the Liberal party of Canada and Paul Martin

    Comment by Liam O’Brien — 6/6/2005 @ 8:39 am

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