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You may be able to help with assembling a list of all those other Ontario municipal election websites worth a regular visit. Candidates who are keeping some form of online journal -- ideally, one with a proper feed for syndication -- should submit those details. Basic campaign sites are great, too, but better if they contain content or context that would be of interest to the widest possible audience.
Blogs dedicated to news and comment on a particular city are a novel development of the last several years. The ones that appear likely to generate material for Campaign Bubble are listed below, so that you can check them out for yourself. And if there are sites missing from this list, send in the address or leave a comment.
Toronto: Spacing Votes is the companion to the latest election issue of Spacing, covering public space issues; Torontoist and blogTO incorporate politics; Reading Toronto takes a more introspective approach. Toronto Sun reporter Rob Granatstein is running X Marks the T.dot. Edward Keenan of Eye Weekly has one, too. And all stories from Toronto Community News are feeding into decisiontoronto2006.
GTA: A blog crew is assigned to covering individual cities in Durham Region; blog alter egos for reporters in York Region include Barbs & Jabs and Joe Voter. There's also a Clarington Watchdog.
Ottawa: All Things Ottawa Municipal Election 2006! is one; The Hall Monitor is another; and the Ottawa Citizen have their own Curbs and Gutters.
London: The London Fog ("Documenting the continuing mismanagement of London, Ontario by its people and municipal government") ...
There's more out there, right? Right? You tell me.
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