by Rob Cottingham | Jan 31, 2007 | Environment
There’s this French initiative that has caught on well beyond the country’s borders: turning off our lights for five minutes in the evening on Thursday, February 1st. (That’s 10:55 am to 11:00 am our time here in B.C.)It’s meant to draw... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 30, 2005 | Blogging, Politics
As the battle over C-38 winds down in Canada, the fight for equal marriage is just starting to gather steam in France. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a Socialist member of the French National Assembly (and avid blogger), reports on the Paris gay pride march: Les... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 14, 2005 | Blogging, Media Mix, Politics
We like to gripe about news coverage here at ODTAA – particularly the kind of horse-race-and-poll-fixated news coverage that so often passes for Canadian (and American) political analysis. Turns out that’s a problem over in Europe as well. Dominique...