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Meet Winston Blackmore online!

The patriarch of Bountiful, Winston Blackmore, is online. With thanks to Macleans.ca blogger Kady O’Malley, The Hook invites you to visit Blackmore’s virtual world.

Blackmore’s website, The North Star, hasn’t been updated since Christmas Eve, but offers plenty of earlier posts worth exploring. It’s not cutting-edge web design (the text layout is amateurish, and the rippling Canadian and American flags are pure 1995). But Blackmore is also displaying Google ads, and presumably bringing in some revenue.

Blackmore’s blog, Share the Light, is a kind of running FAQ about theological issues and their application in daily life. Again, Google ads produce a kind of chorus: When The Hook visited, the top ad was “Inside a Boyfriend’s Mind,” offering “10 secrets to get a man positively addicted to you for life.”

Regardless of the outcome of the trial of Winston Blackmore, The Hook hopes he continues to blog.

Crawford Kilian is a contributing editor of The Tyee.

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As British Columbia and other jurisdictions consider allowing online voting, can it be made secure enough that people will trust it? Will it encourage more people to vote? But if something goes wrong, will it further erode people's confidence in their democracies? And what role is the media likely to play in shaping the debate?

These are among the issues to be considered at a May 26 discussion that Fair Voting BC and PartyX are hosting at The Hive in Vancouver. I'll be on the panel, along with UBC Law's Fathima Cader and SFU computer scientist Steve Wolfman. The results and recommendations are to inform the two organizations' public positions on online voting.

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