So the American Presidential Election was this week and one thing I noticed is that the social news sites (digg, reddit) are American-focused and it’s hard to note much Canadian content on-line. So I rounded up the stuff I knew about:

Blogs:

• Michael Geist: A Canadian DRM activist. Talks about copyright news in Canada. I interviewed him for a paper I did on DRM last year.
• Amber Macarthur: Tech personality based in Canada. Haven’t watched her show CommandN yet, but she used to co-host Call For Help with Leo Laporte.
• Callyn and Mike: The best blog in Canada. Obviously.

TV Shows:

It’s pretty frustrating that Hulu doesn’t stream their stuff on-line to Canadian users, but the Canadian TV channels have some stuff setup.

• Rick Mercer Report: Great satire, guy formerly of 22 minutes, the most popular Canadian commentator next to Don Cherry.
• The Hour with George Strombolopolous: This is probably one of my favorite news shows now, this guy’s a great journalist and they always get interesting people on the show.
• JPod: A short-lived comedy about a bunch of people working at a game development company. Geeks owe it to themselves to watch this, whether they’re Canadian or not.
• The Comedy Network/CTV: Just some miscellaneous TV channels and their shows. Wow, CTV’s site really needs a redesign.

Stores:

Yah, a lot of digital distribution stores aren’t around in Canada, and the iTunes music store is really behind the curve. Here’s some canadian digital distribution/online order stores:

• Amazon.ca: This is probably a given.
• ZeStuff/Splitreason: These are canadian thinkgeek-style stores, and they’ve got some pretty good stuff. It’s also the official VGCats outlet, which is a great canadian webcomic. (PS: ZeStuff seems to be down as of the time of this writing)
• PureTracks: I haven’t used this, but this is a canadian digital music store. It looks alright.

Digital Distribution stores that Canadians can buy from: eMusic, Steam, Direct2Drive, Audible, Telltale Games, Gametap(Limited)

News

• Canada reddit: At least there’s some way to get this kind of news
• Macleans: A pretty beefy news site

If anyone has anything else, be sure to leave it in the comments.