John Ogilvie's blog

Here is a report from the BBC on how Swiss spaghetti farmers are actually benefiting from the "mildest winter in living memory" and a Spring which has arrived "a fortnight earlier than usual."

The GPO organized a rally at the Peace Tower to mark Earth Hour last night. Stephen Harper saw us and came out and served cups of hot chocolate, and John Baird made sure every cup had a marshmallow!

I am not smart about policy. I am better at organizing. Here are some thoughts.

I have done a lot of work as a software developer in the remote sensing/GIS industry here in Ottawa. Dipix, Tydac, Intera, Geovision are some of the companies I've worked with over the years.

I encourage all of you hardcore Greens to run as a candidate. (If you are reading this blog, you are probably a hardcore Green.)

GPC council has been debating this by email a lot today.

On Monday (what a mad social whirl!) I attended the nomination meeting in Ottawa-Vanier.

One of the GPC goals is to elect a lot of candidates in the next election, whenever it comes. This is obvious, I know..

As of today it looks like we will be spared a Spring election. Thank Goodness.

The CEO of the Ottawa West Nepean EDA, Neil Adair, has been saying that we could all learn a lot from how Barack Obama is running his campaign. So I looked into it.