CPAC launches pre-election Democracy Project

By Christopher Guly

OTTAWA – With the federal election less than a year away, the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) is broadening its gavel-to-gavel coverage of Parliament to prep voters before they cast their ballots next October with a new initiative called the Democracy Project.Launched on Monday evening at Ottawa’s historic Chateau Laurier, the project involves what CPAC has billed as an “unprecedented collaboration” with a myriad of partners that includes Google and YouTube, Library and Archives Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, CIVIX, Public Policy Forum, The Samara Centre for Democracy, Abacus Data and such media outlets as The Tyee and The...