CBC’s list of ridings and candidates is already behind, at least for my riding and one of those adjacent. One is somewhat understandable—UWO student Stephen Maynard just won the NDP nomination on Wednesday—but Liberal nominee Glen Pearson was acclaimed almost a full week ago, and was pretty much a given for a week previous to that.
But that’s nothing compared to the other national news media sites. I can’t even find election coverage on CanWest Global’s canada.com site (which features the purported National Post), The Globe and Mail has an election section but doesn’t have a list of candidates, and CTV’s election mini-site doesn’t appear to have a list either. (None of the sites’ search engines turn up hits for Maynard or Pearson either.) The local paper fares better, as one might hope: it had Pearson in its map of regional nominees, published the day after the writ dropped, and had a brief mention of Maynard’s nomination on Wednesday.
