>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) >Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:52:48 -0400 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Straight Goods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: EXTRA: Broadbent/Morton conference on the Future of Social > Democracy now on-line >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Status: > >EXTRA: Broadbent/Morton conference on the Future of Social Democracy now >on-line > >A special Straight Goods Bulletin from Canada's independent on-line source >of news you can use: http://www.StraightGoods.com [To get on or off this >list, please see end of file] > >May 18, 2001: > >Ed Broadbent and Desmond Morton announce conference on the Future of Social >Democracy in Canada > >Features new venture in E-democracy in concert with Straight Goods to >enable Canadians everywhere to join the discussion > >OTTAWA, MAY 17: At a Parliament Hill news conference, former NDP leader Ed >Broadbent announced a major conference in Montreal. It will be available >for participation everywhere via a new kind of Internet conference site >developed by Straight Goods. > >The Future of Social Democracy conference, organized by the McGill >Institute for the Study of Canada, and co-hosted by Canadian historian >Desmond Morton and Broadbent, will take place May 25-26, 2001 in the Moot >Court at the McGill Faculty of Law, 3644, Peel Street, Montreal. Its aim is >to show the relevance of new social democratic policies for Canada�s future. > >The website, developed by Straight Goods, enables Web users to read >conference papers and reports on the event, contribute to on-line debates, >and cast their votes on critical survey questions regarding the future of >social democracy. > >"We were determined to make the conference highly representative in terms >of age, gender, and regions of Canada," says Broadbent. "That's why we felt >it was essential that anyone be able join in the discussion via the >Internet." In addition, conference proceedings will be broadcast on cable >TV via CPAC. > >"I'm pleased that our future-oriented conference should include this >simple, but significant exercise in electronic democracy.� > >The conference's main web site is >http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/misc/socdem. It includes the conference >program, registration information, conference papers, media information, >and administrative details. The Debates webpage is >http://goods.perfectvision.ca/SocDem/McGill.cfm. That's the starting point >for discussions and forums organized around four conference themes. It >includes on-line, instantly-tallied survey questions enabling visitors to >vote - once only - on major questions of the day. > >Both sites can be accessed directly from the front page of Straight Goods >at www.StraightGoods.com. > >Straight Goods� publisher Ish Theilheimer told the news conference that in >planning the site, organizers deliberately chose a design that most people >will be capable of using. �We didn�t want fancy features like streaming >video that would have many people would not be able to view on their >systems.� Instead, they chose a simple forum format plus the surveys. New >surveys may be added as the debate unfolds. > >Conference panelists include Warren Allmand, Joel Bakan, Kathy Brock, Diana >Bronson, Carol Allison Bura, Becky Barrett, Ross Finnie, Andrew Jackson, >Jane Jenson, Ed John, Tom Kent, Naomi Klein, Pierre Lalibert�, Margie >Mendell, Lars Osberg, Andrew Petter, Judy Rebick, John Richards, Daniel >Turp and Armine Yalnizyan. > >"We hope for lively debate," says Morton, "and we expect it, with the >diversity of views represented by our panelists and with contributions from >all over Canada via the Internet." > >Organizers are encouraging unions, citizens groups, NDP provincial sections >and activist citizens to spread word on the conference, encourage >participation, and post links to the conference on their websites or send >their links to other relevant sites > >For information, contact > >Ish Theilheimer, Straight Goods, (613) 625 1555, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Lynne Darroch, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. (514) >398-2658, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Straight Goods - Canada's independent on-line source of news you use >Box 2000, Killaloe, ON K0J 2A0 CANADA >613 625 1555 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.StraightGoods.com > >To join this list send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the >body of the memo: subscribe straight-goods-l > >To remove yourself from this list, please send mail to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >with nothing in the subject line, with this message (and no other text): >unsubscribe straight-goods-l >
