This morning saw Melanie and I heading down to the CNE to rall- it-up for Jack and the rest of the NDP gang. It was an early morning, but definitely worth it.
Together with a bunch of other good folks we all hopped on buses from Peggy’s campaign HQ and made the quick trip to the CNE, where the place was soon jumping to the pickin’, grinnin’ and winnin’ bluegrass twangin’ of Roses in the Snow (pickin’/grinnin’/winnin’ is theirs, not mine, but I like it.) The fact that the music of choice was bluegrass was perfect for Mel (a bluegrass freak, btw) and definitely got everyone’s feet tapping.
After a brief introduction from BNL’s Steven Page, Jack came on and gave a great speech and we all cheered and rallied – hey that’s what we were there for. I’d go into details, but you probably know them by now. If you don’t head over to ndp.ca and get reading.
One of the highlights of the day was bumping into Alex Felipe, a freelance photographer with a kickin’ flickr gallery. Turns out that Alex and I worked together at Indigo books back when we should have known better and before they started checking the bags of their staff, but that’s another story.
Alex took the great photo up there (is that a leader of a party or what?) and he has got a whole set of photos from the rally and a bunch of other cool images in his gallery over at flickr. Thanks Alex for letting me grab it. So, go check his photos out and remember, on Jan 23rd vote NDP – the kids will thank you for it.
(many apologies to the letter ‘g’ for being ruthlessly and repeatedly dropped in an attempt to jazz up this post.)
Update: Chandrasutra provides a much better write-up of the rally and apparently this up and coming news source had something to say about it too.
