I have volunteered with them in the past on two separate occasions.

I’ve never been paid by them or am contractually bound to them in any way shape or form, and this is still true at this point in time.

Amazing! Thanks!

A lot of the current work is building up the movement, but we do have evidence that politicians are listening to us!

That’s even better, we need more community owned local news!

The Walrus in Bluesky.

When local news disappears, misinformation thrives.

I haven’t seen the Halifax Examiner before. Looking more into, they look like an excellent news organization, community owned and Canadian!

Thanks!

It might be wise to start with the community first. Ask what they want in a meta post. There’s no point in implementing a change if we alienate the community.

I wrote this post about the objectives of the fairvote community.

As far as I know, !fairvote@lemmy.ca is the only online community dedicated towards this cause.

So a lot of the current work is building the movement, and getting those that already support the movement organized.

We know a federal election is coming up, and the more this movement grows, the more politicians will bend to our demands (as they should in a democracy).

1. But it continues the notion that we should rely on them for information, when they have most certainly poisoned Canadian culture and politics.
2. Also, by sending users to an American site, it increases their revenues, when this money could have gone to a Canadian media site.
3. And if you aren’t already aware, Canadian owned media is deliberately neglected because it’s contrary to a particular elite group in this country… And yeah, we should support and grow Canadian owned media regardless of political party.

But if you still insist on supporting American media…

The National Post is American owned media pretending to be Canadian, infiltrating Canadian culture and politics.

In either case (EU or no EU), we must push for the government to implement proportional representation, and that starts by getting organized: !fairvote@lemmy.ca.

If we had proportional representation, we wouldn’t even be concerned about this kind of thing: !fairvote@lemmy.ca.

Me too! But let’s not give up, just because we got a dud: !fairvote@lemmy.ca.

If Canada joins the EU, Canadian representatives to the European Parliament would need to be elected via proportional representation, it’s part of the requirements.

I wish it was electoral reform: !fairvote@lemmy.ca.

All the more reason to increase funding to Canadian owned and operated media.

Amazing, I’ll start thinking of ways to improve the community.

I did join fairvote

Thanks! In a time of uncertainty, you are help building a stronger Canadian democracy!

Why do we resist proportional representation? Seems like a no brainer.

I ask myself this about every other day. I echo the sentiments from this comment: that there is a massive disinformation campaign on PR.

At least with PR, the true majority is always running the government.

Independent of political leaning, in a democracy, citizens are deserving of and entitled to representation in government. Only PR can dependably get you that.

I wrote a list of most promising counters to dark money.

In an alternative, better world, Doug Ford would have a lot less power right now | Toronto Star.

List of Canadian alternatives to American owned media pretending to be Canadian.