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- Dave Cournoyer began blogging in 2005 while studying Political Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In 2006, he was elected Vice-President (External) his Students’ Union and served as Chair of the Council of Alberta University Students until 2007. Since then, he has worked as Communication Coordinator for Alberta’s official opposition party and for various advocacy and public policy groups. As well as writing on this blog, Dave also occasionally writes for publications such as SEE Magazine.
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ReplyDeleteAwesome!
ReplyDeleteinteresting article, well done
ReplyDeleteThe ownership of edstelmach.ca was AOK in my books. It's the forwarding of it to Harry Strom's wikipedia article that was problematic - that was what's called "passing off" which is against the law. I'm really surprised the onwer of this website wasn't sued.
ReplyDeleteThe domain name thing has been revisited ad naseum, but nowhere have I seen any reference to the fact that the name was originally owned by Ed Stelmach's leadership campaign (owned stelmach.ca and edstelmach.ca - one site redirected to the other). After the campaign was over, the leadership campaign group was wound up, and the people involved went back to their regular jobs. No one from the bureaucracy or the PC Party thought to protect it, and the name "ownership" was allowed to expire. Subsequently Dave acquired it.
ReplyDeleteIn my mind, this is an important distinction. Dave saw an opportunity to generate some publicity cheaply and to make the PCs look bad to the benefit of his then-employer, the Alberta Liberals, and took it. But portraying the Premier as ignorant of the importance of an online presence was pure fiction. I visited the leadership campaign site regularly, as I am sure Dave did.
After the brouha over the edstelmach.ca domain name reached the media, many politicians at various levels then moved to protect their names by registering familiar domains. Stelmach was simply a high-value target.