We’re happy to announce live coverage of the English-language Canadian federal leaders debate, this Thursday Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. EDT. We’ve teamed up with citizen journalists to offer play-by-play commentary, insight, opinion and debate. Join us!
(Note. This event is now complete. To see our coverage, click here)
Digital Journal – If you want to have your say live during Canada’s English-language televised leaders’ debate, look no further than DigitalJournal.com’s liveblog on Oct. 2 at 9pm EDT. You can comment, vote in polls and read expert citizen journalist analysis as the Canadian federal leaders debate on eight themes during the two-hour event.
The success of Friday’s live blogging of the U.S. presidential debate is a testament to the interest in seeing the analysis and added goodies a liveblog can offer. On Friday night’s presidential debate, DigitalJournal.com’s live blog saw comments being submitted every two to three seconds. We also had hundreds of comments on the website, and thousands of visitors and participants.
In Canada, Thursday night’s debate will see Conservative Stephen Harper, Liberal Stéphane Dion, New Democrat Jack Layton, Green leader Elizabeth May and the Bloc Québécois’ Gilles Duceppe take to the stage at 9 p.m. EDT. TVO host Steve Paikin will moderate, and he will pose 10 questions to the leaders based on eight themes. After each question (selected from about 4,000 submitted by the public), the leaders will get 45 seconds to answer, followed by eight minutes of open conversation.
The two-hour debate will take place at the National Arts Center in Ottawa. It will be broadcast on Canada’s largest English and French Television networks: CBC, Radio-Canada, CTV, Global and TVA.
Party strategists expect a heated debate filled with attacks and definitive statements. A Conservative Party insider told the Toronto Star: “To survive, come out of it standing, is really what one hopes to do when you’re entering that kind of a hostile environment.”
Get involved in the Canadian debate on Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. EDT and enjoy the political observations on DigitalJournal.com Editor-in-Chief, Chris Hogg, who will be live blogging with citizen journalists KJ, G. Robert M. Miller, Bob Ewing and Carolyn Price.
And for those of you interested in the U.S. vice presidential debate, happening the same night at the same time, you can open another tab on DigitalJournal.com and follow our live blogging coverage of that event as well!
Set a reminder now and join us live on Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. EST for the Canadian federal leaders debate!
