Congratulations Jamie Nicholls
It is civically responsible to congratulate you on a landslide win, and to offer our support for our riding, regardless of any party affiliation or support from this blog. Naysayers and sulkers be darned. Since we live here too, helping you is helping us. There will be considerable pressure to demonstrate your engagement, and we, as a riding, will be tracking your votes and participation online through OpenParliament.ca and ParlVU.. Chances are you’ll have a harder time fighting “the system” than local noisemakers, so just do what you gotta...
Read MoreJournalists not doing their research!
Anyone living in Montreal’s west-island and the western suburbs of Vaudreuil-Soulanges has surely heard about the recent announcements that the government has officially approved a $22 million study on building the much needed “train de l’ouest”. In all the recent press conferences about it, the local journalists have been all atwitter about how there was no mention of the train west of Ste Anne de Bellevue. Fear. Panic. Oh my goodness they have foresaken us. Not one of the local papers I have read appears to have a journalist on staff who does adequate research. If...
Read Moreyour federal mp
as part of our support for Open Government (or Gov 2.0, whichever trendy name you prefer), here is a link provided by the excellent website, openparliament.ca: MP for Vaudreuil-Soulanges (Québec) http://openparliament.ca/politicians/meili-faille/ This link is not meant to endorse a political party or view – it is here to spread the word that citizens are watching and actively engaging in what our MPs, and by extension OUR VOTES, are up to. Here is a screenshot of what you will...
Read Morecity council on your phone?
Further to my earlier blog posts about streaming city council meetings, I have another question to ask: Do you want city council meetings, live or on-demand, on your phone? The reason I ask is that the webteam has signed up to participate in a webinar held by a US-based company, Granicus, that touts streaming of city council to mobile devices. I personally am not sold on the idea, but am allowing myself to be won over. They are a potential supplier for the island video project – we’ll hear out what they are selling, compared to the other options on the market, then...
Read MoreStreaming city council meetings: your thoughts?
As head of the web-team here at Pincourt.org / IlePerrot.org, I have frequently been asked about video streaming for city council meetings for the various municipalities on Ile Perrot and possibilities to unite them under 1 common portal. We are a relatively small island, it is a given that major urban planning and zoning decisions that are made by each municipality affect others. As part of the evaluation phase for setting up such a system to cover all meetings on the island for each of its municipalities, I ask readers of the blog for your thoughts, comments, opinions, suggestions,...
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