Comments | danieljohn: Canadian MP data

danieljohn

Canadian MP data

Mar 18, 2007 19:32

I wonder if the government is going to sue me for copyright infringement. As they say on the website I got the information from:The material on this site is covered by the provisions of the Copyright Act and related regulations and international agreements. Such provisions serve to identify the information source and, in specific instances, to ( Read more... )

canada, parliament, canadianmpdata, copyright, politics, public+domain

Comments 17

Hooray, Daniel John! anonymous March 25 2007, 23:28:22 UTC

Thanks for doing this. We will link to it as/when appropriate.
Pippa Lawson
Director, CIPPIC

anonymous April 13 2007, 20:27:53 UTC

Pardon the drive by comment, but THANK YOU for this! It's such an important tool for us nonprofits.

danieljohn April 13 2007, 20:31:17 UTC

Dear anonymous commenter - thanks for chiming in! Feel free to leave your name next time :)

antoineberkey August 10 2008, 21:55:27 UTC

Please feel free to leave your comments at the candidacy page. - PeeJay 17 August (UTC) Blast you.

juliesofiw July 11 2008, 02:04:25 UTC

Drive-throughs: It is new in the nonprofit sector, but libraries have had success with it. Internet: This can be both a communication channel and a distribution channel for nonprofits.

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Sweet! anonymous May 10 2007, 20:08:00 UTC

Great job-- this will be a useful tool for years to come.

Re: Sweet! anonymous December 11 2007, 15:24:19 UTC

Yes, but only as long as he keeps it updated. Right now his file states that Jean Lapierre is still the MP from Outremont, when in fact Thomas Mulcair was elected to that position three months ago. It will make anything I send from www.onlinerights.ca look mighty foolish... Thanks for publishing this list, but please keep it up to date!

Re: Sweet! danieljohn December 11 2007, 20:30:49 UTC

I've been slack about keeping it up to date, I'll relaunch it soon. In the mean time, feel free to checkout the code and run the scraper yourself.

Nice anonymous May 29 2007, 03:45:09 UTC

I'd like to see them come after you... you cannot copyright a telephone number to my knowledge or an mp's name lol.

Plus this information should be public knowledge.

daphneqevuh July 10 2008, 22:54:06 UTC

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janiceqilaw August 3 2008, 16:31:52 UTC

Well you see my friend this is why I push the reading issue and education of ourselves issue. Since neither side seems interested in working together at all, and gooberment has zero interest in proper education then I feel it is up too us to back off on the pride thing and say to folks, " Hey just take a look at this" then maybe we improve this scheme of things for us all.

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Re: Easy online tool. anonymous December 11 2007, 21:33:33 UTC

It looks like you missed a few of the Government of Canada's own services, which they provide to the public.

A list of all members of Parliament can be found on the Members of Parliament site:

http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca

You can also find a large percentage of government employees using a number of search criteria on the Government Electronic Directory Services (GEDS) site (although strangely enough my dad, who works for the Yukon NDP doesn't appear on the list.)

http://direct.srv.gc.ca/cgi-bin/direct500

Enjoy,
Robin

Re: Easy online tool. anonymous December 11 2007, 21:36:35 UTC

Oops, sorry about that nintu.

My comment was supposed to be part of the main thread, not nested under the previous comment, which points out the same site I do.

Re: Easy online tool. danieljohn December 11 2007, 21:37:11 UTC

Both of you are missing the point of automated querying or having a single database containing the phone numbers.

sigh.