Three items:
1. RICK MERCER Good one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYgwUQTSC3I&feature=channel_video_title
2. HOW TO REGISTER WITH ELECTIONS CANADA TO VOTE. EASY AS A PHONE CALL TODAY! 1-800-463-6868
(If you are not already registered.)
Federal Election May 2, 2011 (or vote in advance polls before May 2.)
STUDENTS CAN VOTE IN ONE OF TWO ELECTORAL DISTRICTS:
You vote “at home”. You, the student, make the determination – where is home? where are you going to vote?:
- “At home” is where you are currently living, or
- “At home” is where your family lives.
The rule is the same provincially and federally.
ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE: Canadian Citizen, 18 years old or older on Election day, your home is in the electoral district.
IN ORDER TO VOTE: The rule is the same federally and provincially (Sask).
BASICALLY:
- You must be on the voters’ list for your polling station.
- You must take identification with proof of current address when you go to vote.
- Take your Voter’s Card if you have one. It’s not necessary but it can be helpful.
- ***IMPORTANT: If you’re not registered in advance, you can always register at the poll when you go to vote.
WARNING: If you go this latter route, know the requirements if you want to avoid difficulties. See Elections Canada website below.
TO GET ON the VOTERS’ LIST: “REGISTRATION” (FEDERAL) and ENUMERATION” (PROVINCIAL)
Basically, (but there are DETAILS – see More Information below)
FEDERAL:
- Register now, phone Elections Canada 1-800-463-6868 (can only be done by phone). EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. Please help spread the word.
PROVINCIAL: You get on the list by being “enumerated”.
WHEN AND WHERE CAN YOU VOTE ?
Three main ways:
– ADVANCE POLLS
– ON ELECTION DAY at your polling station
– FEDERAL – referred to as “vote by special voting rules”. Provincial – referred to as ABSENTEE BALLOT.
MORE INFORMATION:
ELECTIONS CANADA www.elections.ca
ELECTIONS SASKATCHEWAN http://www.elections.sk.ca
The trouble-free way to vote: get on the Voters’ List early and
receive your Voter’s Card in the mail, as confirmation.
Thanks! And vote Green!
www.greenparty.ca facebook twitter
www.greensask.ca info@saskgreen.ca facebook twitter
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3. THANKS TO JANET, MERCER PLUS QUOTATIONS FOR TODAY:
MERCER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYgwUQTSC3I&feature=channel_video_title
Quotations for Today [April 3/11.]
- “Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.” – George Jean Nathan, 1882-1958
- Tommy Douglas on Fascism: “Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt – it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”
- “A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don’t actually believe it.” – Character in P.D. James’ A Taste for Death
- “Life is a passion of activity, or it is nothing. Genuine democracy rests, not upon an attitude of pleased expectation of receiving, not upon an irresponsible sense of liberty to work one’s will, but upon unflinching self-surrender, unceasing activity in behalf of the common good. Services must be voluntarily rendered, often more strenuous than those exacted by superiors under the old feudal order. For democracy is a stern and lofty creed of willing self-denial, of responsibilities staunchly borne, or it is a chaos and a failure, a stampede of the masses for power or for gain.” – Margaret Sherwood, 1918
- “First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.” – Pastor Martin Niemoeller (1892-1964), a Nazi victim who was imprisoned at Sachsenhausen & Dachau
- “A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.” – Bertrand De Jouvenel
- “Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.” – Hannah Arendt
- “The greatest threat to world peace is American foreign policy.” – from Blowback – The Costs & Consequences of American Empire, by Chalmers Johnson
- “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” – Thomas Sowell
- “The modern conservative…is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” – John Kenneth Galbraith quoted in Blessed Unrest – How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being & Why No One Saw it Coming, by Paul Hawken <Pg. 115>
- “There is not a problem with the system. The system is the problem.” – Source unknown
- Talk – Action = Zero ……… ad in Jan/Feb. 2009 ‘Watershed Sentinel’ magazine http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/
- “Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “Each day we are born again to start our life anew. What we do today is what matters most.” ~ Buddha
- “Hoard each joyous moment that comes to you.
No one knows how it will all end.”
– Háfiz
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