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Stephen Harper’s interactive press release


March 17th, 2010 | No Comments

And so the day came to pass: “Your Interview (-slash-Votre-Entrevue) with Prime Minister Stephen Harper” was broadcast on YouTube. It was broadcast an hour late, which turned out to be moot, since the whole thing was pre-taped anyway. It wasn’t a live town hall; it was a video press release.

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Stephen Harper goes viral! Or not.


March 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Just when I thought the golden age of social media nonsense had passed, along comes Stephen Harper. It’s agenda time in Ottawa. Parliament has returned from that winter break we all heard so much about, and now it’s the season of budgets and throne speeches and responses to throne speeches and whatever it is they [...]

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