If I can get my vote in from 10,000km away, so can you.

There are 46 candidates running as Independents in the Carleton electoral district, all sharing the same Official Agent.

The incumbent Tory hasn't even bothered to add her website or office phone. God I hope my riding flips.

Yes, it's civic by-election, and yes the 2 to 3+ line-ups at some stations may have as much to do with under-staffing as voter interest, but it seems that citizens are very keen to get out and vote.

Let's hope that means a massive turn out on April 28.

So I got an invite to attend Mark Carney's rally in the riding of Scarborough-Agincourt on Friday. While I do heavily follow politics, I have never been interested enough to want to attend a political rally until now. I was born in 1990 so Jean Chretien is the first PM I knew of and I feel like no other PM since has come close to being as good as him. But I feel like with his background and who he is as a person Carney has the potential to be just as good or even better than Chretien was. Plus since I have never seen a PM in person and the venue was not too far from where I live I decided to attend. I was thinking that the people that would attend would be fiercely Liberal supporters but to my surprise the people I interacted with appeared to be moderate.

• a group of people I talked to acknowledged that the Liberal party is not perfect but that they are the obvious choice for this election.
• another person came all the way from Mississauga. She said she missed an opportunity to attend a rally he had closer to her home but that "he's actually worth it" for her to travel as far as she did to attend.
• another person said that while the world would be a boring place if everyone had the same views they could not support the current conservative party.

As you can see in the videos the place was packed. I managed to get in right before they stopped allowing anymore people in. Also when Carney was listing what he's already accomplished as PM and mentioned that they cut the carbon tax "because it was divisive" nobody cheered which suggests to me that even the average Liberal voter understands that that was not a good thing. While I don't trust the polls, attending this rally has made me cautiously optimistic and I'm even considering volunteering for the Liberal candidate in my own riding.