Elections 2006

• Federal political parties
• Election finances
• Hot government departments - The sponsorship scandal
• Polling firms
• Election News
• Election Blogs
• Keep tabs on your politicians
• Lobby groups
• Election Results
• Canadian newspapers
• Alternate news

Other Canadian political news:

• Parliament Hill News Sources
• Political Commentary and Analysis
• How to search for Canadian information and web sites
• Les outils de recherches en francais
• Federal government sites
• Provincial sites

Federal parties:

• Bloc Quebecois      
• Canadian Alliance
• Liberal Party
• New Democratic Party
• Progressive Conservatives    

Parties with no seats in the House:

• Green Party
• Western Canada Concept
• Natural Law party of Canada
• Canada Action Party
• Christian Heritage Party of Canada
• Communist Party of Canada
• Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Libertarian Party
• Canadian National Alliance

Election finances:

Federal - Main Pages

• Elections Canada Main Page
• Election Finances - Main page
• Election Finances -List of Searchable databases Good place to Start.

By Candidate:

• Elections Canada -By Candidate

By Party:

• Party Finances - After 2004
• Party finances Find out everything about who gives to what party for any fiscal year. You can search by name, by party, by top 10 or top 100.

By Election 2000:

• Elections Canada Contributions by elections:   Track who gives to what party.
• Choose an election year to analyze
• Finances - 2000 election.
• Contributions by candidates - 2000 Put in a name, then select the "Part 5" summary of the list of donors
• Contributions by electoral riding
• Contributions by donor Find out how much each company or individual gave
• Top 10 contributors - 2000
• Download databases

Ontario:

• Ontario campaign finance site
• Ontario campaign contribution    Ontario journalist Patrick Cain has compiled information into spreadsheets which he is making available for dowload and use by other journalists
  

Hot government departments - The Sponsorship Scandal:

• Public Accounts Downloads pdf files of spending for latest year. The "Section 4" documents for services are the most useful
• Public Accounts - Previous Years
• Auditor General
• Auditor General reports
• Public Works -- The Audits

• See JNet's Find News page

Online Political Commentary and analysis:

• See JNet's Canada Politics page

Lobby groups:

• See JNet's Lobby and Think Tank Page

Find ridings, politicians:

• Elections - History of every riding
• Find a riding with postal code or other hints
• Elections Canada Maps     Or use Elections Canada to your riding and contact information
• Who are the MPs   Find out their average age, their occupations, and some odd information

Election Blogs :

See JNet's Main Blog Page for Search tools

General:

• Blogs Canada - Politics
• Egroups - Multi Partisan
• Votein2006
• Ottawa Watch

Well-Known Pundits:

• Warren Kinsella's Blog
• Andrew Coyne
• Norman Spector

Liberals:

• Official Blackberry Blog
• Liblogs - Unofficial list of Liberal blogs
• Liberal4life
  

Conservatives:

• Official Conservative Blog
• Official Youth Blog
• Conservative Podcasting Site
  

NDP:

• Official NDP Text for Cell Site
• NDP Blogs: Blogging Dippers
• Todays NDP
• GlueMeat

Polling firms:

• CRIC - Tous les sondages
• CRIC - All Polls
• Ipsos Reid         Canada's premier polling company, with the latest political polls
• Environics 
• Leger and Leger          The influential Montreal polling firm

Election results:

• ElectionsResultsCanada    Private website vows to defy law and post results before polls close across the country:
• Elections - History of every riding
• Elections Canada Maps     Or use Elections Canada to your riding and contact information