With the passing of the motion of non-confidence this evening, we can now announce plans for the campaign coverage to come here at Gen X at 40 HQ:

• clever new news sources such as listening to the morning news in that half-awake pre-caffinated state that I shake about 10:45 am will be added to the existing supply of cutting and pasting the words of others plus day-dreaming ineffectively about policy comparisons;
• charts, graphs and animations aplenty; and
• lots and lots of vague rambling sentences turning on verb structures like "outta be" and "should have" spitting with wrath against people who do things I don't really understand much about...but when did I ever let that stop me!

Other than that there will be some coverage of the local riding in a bloggy citizen journalism effort by some of the Red Ensign bloggers. By way of disclosure, I enter this election expecting I will vote NDP as I have in most elections but, still, I am not about to pass out pamphlets and - in theory at least - could be swung one way or another. That makes me an average joe, no?

As a start, here is the list of registered parties as confirmed by Elections Canada. It is sad to see that the Natural Law Party has lost its way but it is always heart warming to note that the Communist Party of Canada and the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada have still not gotten their act together. Something about an ice pick in Mexico City. And if anyone can help the new Western Block Party with HTML that might be good.