[fvc-wat-disc] FVWR Discussion Group meeting for December

[Jennifer Ross]

I seem to be good for either day, and really want to attend one of these
things!!

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On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 7:21 PM Dave Arthur <arthurd23 at bell.net> wrote:

> Either Dec 30 or Jan 6 is fine for me.
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> Dave A
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> *From: *Cathy Scott <cathy.scottfree at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, December 9, 2020 3:33 PM
> *To: *FVC Waterloo Region Discussion <fvc-wat-disc at listserv.thinkers.org>
> *Subject: *[fvc-wat-disc] FVWR Discussion Group meeting for December
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> Hi, Everyone
>
> I am forwarding this email from Anita, with information on attending a
> webinar on the topic of referendums.
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> I am suggesting that we attend this webinar, and include this topic in our
> next Zoom Discussion Group meeting.
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> *Since the meeting date falls on the 30th, between Christmas and New
> Years,*
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> *    Please let me know whether you are available on this date, or*
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> *ReSchedule the meeting for the following Wednesday, Jan. 6.*
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> Also on the agenda for our next meeting is to discuss Peter KH's idea that
> we organize a Zoom meeting for all social organizations (many of them are
> members of the Civic Hub) to talk about how all our causes might benefit
> from electoral reform.
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> PLEASE ATTEND THE WEBINAR IF YOU CAN and
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> LET ME KNOW ABOUT YOUR DATE PREFERENCE.
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> Cathy
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *Anita Nickerson* <anita.nickerson at fairvote.ca>
> Date: Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:51 AM
> Subject: Webinar on referendums
> To: <fair-vote-canada-chapters at googlegroups.com>
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> Hey everyone.
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> I'm doing a webinar on referendums on Sunday 13th at 7 PM Eastern if you
> want to join.
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> https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d_W4xoH_Tq6PatDES5rKQg
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> I'll give you a heads up that it's a bummer - not the kind of webinar I
> want to do so I've been procrastinating a bit. But nothing compared to the
> kind of heartbreak you get when the results come in and you really thought
> this time would be different...and the consequences of a lost referendum.
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> Since last year I've been looking at some of the research, and just like
> other topics everyone on our core team needs to know basic info on - PR
> 101, about AV, about CAs - this seemed to me like necessary info.
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> It is a bit of a longer presentation (takes about 40 minutes for me to
> walk through it and as it's the first time you'll see me looking at my
> notes...).
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> I'm going to be joined for the Q+A by Professor Lawrence Leduc
> <https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/polisci/wssr/all-guest-lecturers/lawrenceleduc.html>,
> who's an expert in referendums, citizens' assemblies and electoral reform.
>
> At 8:30 PM we'll be repeating the webinar in French, this time led by
> Gisela, with Jean-Sébastien Dufresne, who is on our board, joining her for
> Q+A.
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> On a happier note, next winter or spring we'll be doing another on the
> power of Citizens' Assemblies! I wanted to be able to offer both together
> as a series (the dark side and light side :) but it didn't work out that
> way since I'm still chasing a new guest speaker on CAs.
>
>
>
>  Anita
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