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.
That version of history explains everything.
It explains the housing crisis. It explains the energy restrictions. It explains the immigration pressure. It explains the economic stagnation. It explains why a sitting Deputy Prime Minister stood in front of graduates at an American university and asked, out loud, whether capitalist democracy still works.
None of what is happening to Canada is an accident.
The Present Is the Evidence
To understand how Canada arrived at this moment, you first have to look honestly at what is happening right now.
Across Canadian media and social media, a coordinated narrative has been building around what is being called the problem of empty bedrooms. On the surface it sounds like a housing conversation. Look closer and it is something else entirely. The pressure being applied, particularly on elderly Canadians and grandparents who have lived in their homes for decades, is to downsize. To give up their multi-bedroom homes. To turn their large homes into apartment blocks. ...
Nenshi should step down, fined, be taken to court for dereliction of duty or be removed from current leadership role due to breach of authority while in a position of power, poor memory & proved blatant deceit causing destruction & financial burden unnecessarily …. The records prove it & clarify it! His two in command should not be absolved either for not going to council when Nenshi did not! Calgarians should not be left with the costing when it should have been unnecessary! It’s called Accountability…..