#hfx09

… to rectify that shortcoming, here’s Jack Layton’s Sunday speech at the NDP convention in Halifax:

HFX09 NDP Convention Day 3 – semi-liveblog/open thread

What better way to spend a sunny Saturday morning than curled up in front of CPAC, watching an NDP policy convention? Anyway, if there are any readers out there who, like ITQ, are drawn to these events like a moth to a flame (or possibly vice versa), feel free to use this as an open thread to chat about the speeches, the speakers, the resolutions up for debate, your feelings on the ideological significance of the letter N — you know, whatever. If it gets particularly lively on the floor, or if another procedural wrangle breaks out, I’ll liveblog it, but otherwise, expect updates to be sporadic, at least for the first part of the day.

A Senate committee. From May. On CPAC. Yes, ITQ is appalled too, although at least she doesn’t have to listen to the rest of the speech that was underway when they pulled the plug. Silver linings, people.

She may not be heading to Halifax, but that hasn’t stopped ITQ from following, with equal parts bemusement and amusement, the fracas surrounding once-and-not-likely-future NDP candidate Dana Larsen, who was — at least, according to his tweeted version of events –unceremoniously banned from attending the convention — or even hanging around the building — earlier today.