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November 5, 2007 6:08 AM

Any popular digg-style websites or blogs on Canadian politics?

Ideally, it would be a place where people can read and submit related articles and/or links to articles, add comments, rabble-rouse, etcetera etcetera.

posted by survivorman to society & culture (7 comments total)

I can't say if this is digg-style, but would Rabble.ca be somewhere along the lines of what you're looking for? (Link leads to the About Us page.)
posted by melissa at 6:31 AM on November 5, 2007

This guy has a blog about politics and the law. I think he might be famous or something. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
posted by PowerCat at 7:05 AM on November 5, 2007

try this one (canadaka -- self proclaimed canadian version of digg).

now public seems comprised of user submitted content.

also, dmoz has sixteen listings of ca politics chat/forum/user-run websites. not digg style, but i imagine appropriate for rabble rousing.
posted by boygirlparty at 7:19 AM on November 5, 2007

Progressive Bloggers has a pretty wide aggregation of Liberal and NDP-centric content. They have an RSS feed that covers practically every notable Canadian political blog as well.
posted by Space Coyote at 7:58 AM on November 5, 2007

rabble is not a blog so much as a forum. Some of the topics can be entertaining though.

www.smalldeadanimals.com is a very well read blog. Quite right wing at times.
www.dustmybroom.com is a native written blog, and also could be considered right.
www.angrygwn.nu is perhaps more into the belly of the political beast. Also some what right side.
posted by fox_terrier_guy at 8:57 AM on November 5, 2007

Lobby Them is like Digg for political causes in Toronto.
posted by chunking express at 3:21 PM on November 5, 2007

TO my knowledge 'CKA' is the only active digg-style site for Canadian news. I actually created the CKA News system before Digg was around, but I have made it more digg-link because that’s what people are most used to now.

The homepage features the news, but also many other things. To view the 'news only' in more digg-style (with description text) go here: www.canadaka.net/news_links

One of the more appealing aspects of the CKA News system is its integration into the CKA Canadian Forums, which are the most active & fastest growing Canadian forums.

I also started a new site in May 2007 called Blogging Canadians. This is a digg-style site dedicated to Canadian blogs. It's run on the Pligg CMS system which was modeled after digg.

I hope this helps answer the original posts question.
posted by canadaka at 7:56 PM on November 8, 2007