 
                We are still contemplating where to send our $1500. So far, I think we agreed to split it in three and choose three recipients.
Initially, I was thinking some of the independent news operations like Rebel, WS, TN, etc. but they have their own fund raising using paywalls.
I noticed that some suggested single investigators like Andy Lee, Sheldon, Mocha. and realised I really don't know much about them and did a ilittle research. That changed my vote.
We will have a second poll after we have all had a chance to read the comments and look into the lkess prominent candidates. From what I see, they are doing amazing work, without a lot of support.
Rather than pin the whole discussion up top, I unpinned it and suggest going to https://thelions.locals.com/post/5538626/decision-time-fellow-lions-are-requested-to-participate-in-deciding-how-to-use-the-roughly-1 to read and comment -- and maybe change your vote.
As 50,000+ bureaucrats, lobbyists and politicians jet into Belém to tell you to “cut back,” we’re sending Sheila Gunn Reid and Kian Simone to show the luxury, the VIP perks — and Canada’s role — that the UN doesn’t want you to see.
https://www.rebelnews.com/rebel_news_is_heading_to_brazil_to_expose_the_uns_climate_hypocrisy
Not just Climate Alarmism and Gender Nonsense anymore.In a nation once defined by hard work, innovation, and shared prosperity, Canada is sleepwalking into fiscal and social ruin under the banner of performative “reconciliation.” We’ve seen the warning signs globally: companies like Bud Light hemorrhaging $1.4 billion in sales after its ill-fated Dylan Mulvaney campaign alienated core customers; Jaguar’s cringeworthy 2024 rebrand pushing electric cars and “inclusivity” that bombed so hard it was scrapped amid plummeting stock; Harley-Davidson retreating from DEI mandates after backlash from riders who just wanted motorcycles, not lectures. These weren’t isolated fumbles, they were self-inflicted wounds from chasing social justice optics at the expense of reality. Now, Canada is the latest casualty, with “woke” poli...
https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/canada-has-gone-woke-and-its-about