Please boost and sign (open to all! name and place pls) this open letter that will be sent to the Parliament of Canada. This is a followup to #e4769 petition now awaiting a formal response from Government.
This Open letter will be sent on Monday June 3rd to the Speaker of the House of Commons and other critical officers and Ministers to encourage a positive response to the petition.
I've not been gaining much traction on Mastodon so I thought it was time for an #Introduction! I am creeping up on my mid-fifties, I am a Life/ADHD coach, I was diagnosed with #ADHD at 51, I've been diagnosed with #HealthAnxiety, I enjoy #CanPoli and #ABPoli but the polarization as of late stresses me out, I am a #hockey fan first, #EdmontonOilers second, I am an ally of #LGBTQ and the #Indigenous People of Canada. Give me a #follow and I'll return the favour!
My cup overflows with anger toward these lying, deceiving, murderous, oil and gas companies. So this morning, I did something I've never done before in hopes the people coming home from their long weekends in Tofino and Ucluelet get the message.
Vancouver Island University, my employer, is now threatening to remove the encampment and have people arrested. I'm absolutely sick.
I had corresponded with our President on May 1. I sent this to our Chancellor, Chair and President today.
Dear Chancellor Sayers, Chair Anderson, and President Saucier,
I am extremely concerned by the escalatory words and actions of VIU today given the encampment’s peaceful and respectful nature and disposition to date. The President has stated to me in her response quoted below on May 1 "that VIU’s approach to the encampment is based on respect and peace for protest and freedom of expression.”
The locking of all campus buildings today and the very clear threat by VIU Security (see attached noticed link) to have peace officers remove tents and equipment under the Trespass Act under threat of arrest is completely contradictory to the President’s statement and is exactly the approach that I flagged to the President as being extremely dangerous and likely to result in harm to the protesters and deep embarrassment to the University itself. There are peaceful ways to do this.
As an institution that is supposed to be fully immersed in the spirit and action of Truth and Reconciliation, I find these statements and actions to be horrendously contradictory, misguided, colonial, and dangerous.
As an individual employee, VIUFA faculty member, and member of this community on Snuneymuxw, Coast Salish and Nuuchanulth lands I am embarrassed, and I beg the University to reconsider and reverse its actions.
🚨 What We Risk by Normalizing Poilievre’s Politics
"We face losing nothing less than Canadian decency, decorum and democracy. Do news media recognize this?"
"Demonizing opponents, intimidating journalists, disrespecting institutions, politicizing the rights of the vulnerable and undermining truth are warning signs for democratic erosion."
"Now is the time-For Canadians concerned with.....our politics to resist giving in to despair."
We got 10 more signatures yesterday! Only need 13 more to break 1000!
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This is literal doom, but I actually find it mildly encouraging that our security and government services are being told the truth about the current state of the nation, society, and world. This is the kind of report that every single politician needs to not only read but reallyunderstand.
Quotes below:
"The situation will probably deteriorate further in the next five years, as the early effects of climate change and a global recession add their weight to the ongoing crises"
"accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations"
"the difference between the extremes of wealth is greater now in developed countries than it has been at any time in several generations"
"many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live."
"Law enforcement should expect continuing social and political polarization fueled by misinformation campaigns and an increasing mistrust for all democratic institutions"
"Access to [big data] will allow private entities to develop the means to exercise undue influence over individuals and populations at an unprecedented level"
"In the wake of COVID-19, Canada's governments have normalized operating during a respiratory pandemic... the damage to the economy and to the social fabric of the nation is ongoing"
If you live in Canada, you should be aware that there’s a serious proposal being floated as a private member’s bill to establish a universal basic income. This is not a drill (though it may remain a pipe-dream). it’s reached second reading, and is garnering a lot of attention. You can support it here https://www.leahgazan.ca/basicincome?active=glbi_human_rights and read the proposed legislation here https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en/bill/44-1/c-223
Check it out. Drop the cynicism for a minute and just imagine if we let ourselves have nice things.
Does anyone else find it incredibly disturbing how obsessed with our genitalia (and especially that of children) are PP and RepubliCONS federally and provincially across Canada? I certainly am disgusted. The sexual deviant Cons should be investigated for their appalling obsession. #canPoli#NeverVoteConservative
At current levels of inequality increase, the rich are getting richer so fast than in about 50-60 years, all human wealth will be owned by five people. I mean EVERYTHING, every inch of land, every hamburger, every blade of grass, every pair of socks, owned by five humans. No other human will own anything.
If this situation seems, um, a little unstable to you, well, the political parties that oppose it in North America are typically polling at about 5% and derided as socialist. #uspol#CanPoli
We, the undersigned... call upon the Government of Canada to enact policy and dedicate budgetary resources to enable the Parliament of Canada to provide an open, trusted, federated, social media presence for use by all members, senators, officers and other employees of Parliament as appropriate for communication to all Canadians. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769
President Carter, now in his last days, home to be with his family as he passes, once personally saved Ottawa from a Nuclear Disaster, at risk, and cost, to his life, suffering from radiation poisoning all his life.
Canada had a Nuclear Accident in the 50s, asked the US for help, Lieutenant Jimmy Carter lead a team out of NY.
The future President Carter, had his team lower him into the reactor.
I had no idea. I have no idea why this isn't widely known