I just hit send on the Open Letter to the Speaker, Clerks of the House and Senate and the Chair of the House Procedures and House Affairs Committee. (and cc'ed to other relevant Ministers, MPs and Senator)
67 signatures included! Anyone can still add one on the web version.
Thanks 🙏 for helping to push this. There may be a third (and final!) push, but it will be Canada only.
THANK YOU!
Hey BC folks! If you have a bike, get out and ride this week! It's GoByBike Week! You don't even have to take it to work, you can Go By Bike anywhere! The Park, the Store, just around the block.
Get out there and have fun. And when you come back, register your ride on the website and you'll be entered to win some great prizes!
Last chance. If you want to have your signature on the real life letter that goes to Canada's House of Commons Speaker and others, you must tell me before 9AM PDT (about 40 minutes).
You do not have to be Canadian to sign.
Signatures received after 9AM will be on the web version.
I've made some updates to the letter including more supporting links and sources.
If you want your name (you don't need to be Canadian!) on the letter that goes to officials in Canada's Parliament advocating for using #OpenSocialWeb services you need to let me know before 9AM PDT tomorrow (Monday Jun 3).
Dear all Canadians and also all Fediverse Citizens!
Please boost and sign (name and place please) this open letter that will be sent to the Parliament of Canada. This is a followup to #e4769 petition which is 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.
Again, I must express my support, admiration and solidarity with the student protesters. For 28 days they have been calm, peaceful, steadfast and made their voices heard. VIU has chosen to vilify, threaten and accuse them of making others feel unsafe while VIU hires outside security contractors to surveil (including video) and make the Students feel unsafe and unwelcome in their own campus. Administration has still not had a dialogue.
The Students most recent statement. #VIU https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7lE0vDN7oO/?igsh=MWkxejQzbGpjcnBqMQ%3D%3D
This sounds like a reason to call for our MPs and other government officials to remove themselves from toxic corporate social media spaces and create government-run, spaces, federated into the open social web so that Canadians can interact with their elected officials and those elected officials can be protected from harassment!
Hey Canadian Sports Mastodon'ers. Convince me to keep my Sportsnet+ subscription now that my hockey team is out of the playoffs and the Bluejays are generally not great.
Currently leaning towards: Dump it until at least the fall.