After 11 years of publishing Canadian political educational materials on the Internet, Mapleleafweb.com will no longer be actively maintained. This decision was hard to make, but unfortunately finding additional funding sources to pay for the active development of the website was proving too difficult.

This project would have never been a success without the generous donations provided by the Max Bell Foundation, Arthur Child Foundation, Canada West Foundation, University of Lethbridge, David Elton Endowment and anonymous donors.

Here is your chance to win one of two gift-certificates to Chapters.ca!

We have invited a number of university academics, from across Canada, to write on the Maple Leaf Web Election 2008 Blog. If you register and post a comment on any of the Election 2008 Blog postings, your name will be entered into a draw to win one of two $50 gift-certificates to Chapters.ca.

Each time you post a comment, your name will be entered into the draw - so the more comments you post, the better chance you have to win!

Mapleleafweb is scheduled to do an interview with Major General (Ret.) Lewis Mackenzie, former Canadian Armed Forces general and writer. We are providing visitors to Mapleleafweb the opportunity to submit potential questions to General Mackenzie.

I would like to welcome two new cartoonists to Mapleleafweb. Political cartoons by Graeme MacKay from MacKay Cartoons, and J.J. McCullough from Filibuster Cartoons are going to be appearing in our Political Cartoons section - with new cartoons being posted daily.

For some reason the MySQL database that it used to run the back end of Maple Leaf Web was throwing an error during the past few days. This error didn't seem to cause any issue with displaying the website content or forums - and no website data was lost - however there was some issues with viewing the front page of Maple Leaf Web.

A long list of important links have been posted to the Federal Elections section of the Voter Almanac.

You may see website errors while we migrate all the content over from the old Mapleleafweb website to the new Mapleleafweb website.

We are right in the middle of launching the new design of Maple Leaf Web. The redesign not only includes a new look for Maple Leaf Web, but also a massive rewrite of the features and spotlights.