Trojan Horses, Privacy, and Voter Engagement
If you watch CBC for more than 5 minutes this week, you’re likely to see a trailer for a new mini-series called The Trojan Horse. It is a Canadian Political Thriller. (stop laughing!). It’s actually a sequel to another very well done Canadian political thriller miniseries called H2O. I’m actually really looking forward to it - I might even re-watch H2O this weekend (yes, I have it on DVD. Remember, I am a Canadian political geek).
In other news, I heard back one last time from Citigroup about my privacy request. I’m satisfied with the result this far, as I now have the name of the company that provided my information to them, and will be pursuing this branch of my privacy’s tree until I can find the source. This whole thing came out of being relatively annoyed at the direct marketing campaign that included me, but I’m learning some useful things about the Privacy laws in this country. I’ll try to document the last few months relatively soon, when I’m a bit less busy with other things…
Sounding like the Spring will not be the time for an election. That will likely change in 5 minutes, and then again in another 5. In the meantime, another ‘project’ which has come up is a project to try to engage the voters of Alberta after the last provincial election (even though we had 13% more show up than the by-elections… ). I had a good chat with Enlightened Savage over the phone yesterday about the project - mainly what needs to be done and how we can get there. Hopefully we pundits, webloggers, and concerned citizens can get something off the ground and work to improve the situation before 2012.
2 Responses to “Trojan Horses, Privacy, and Voter Engagement”
Alberta voter:
“Go to the polls? Why bother?”
Its going to be interesting to see how this trojan horse things turns out. I enjoyed most of H2O but found the end somewhat over the top. After reading TH’s description this seems even more OVER THE TOP, but I’m willing to give it a shot. Afterall, CBC now hosts my favourite new TV drama ‘The Border’
Cheers,
P
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