Thank you, Melissa! You mirror my thoughts about the candidates I followed. I am puzzled by Wilmot Township results. Your comments and information throughout were very helpful.
I worked one of the Kitchener polls as a DRO and followed this election closely. Disappointment in the voter turnout (20.26% ugh) seems to be an insufficient word. There’s a lot to care about in Kitchener and the region. I hope the low voter turnout is being looked at closely and some crucial solutions for voter education and engagement are in play four years down the line!
Thrilled in particular for the elections of Colleen James, Meena Waseem, Aislinn Clancy and Ayo Owodunni. Matt Rodrigues had our votes and I truly hope he considers running again next term.
Perhaps the Wilmot results reflect the fact that the previous council were out of touch with public opinion on such issues as being sympathetic to Indigenous vandalism and removal of the historically significant PMP? What is called these days being "woke." I for one found the results very democratic! I agree most of the rest of your assessment Melissa.
I happen to be in the region due to casteists (the sort that are currently running the scam popularly referred to as India) who are aligned with white supremacists and Chinese authoritarian tyrants (as evidenced by the dehumanization I experienced by age 12 in Singapura). They do not care about education beyond what might be necessary to put on a stuntshow of a career, and thus have no meaningful intellectual capacity, currently, to engage in the difficult, challenging and far from straight-forward project that is democracy. They may vote, sometimes, they may participate in discussions, sometimes, but by and large, their role here is to continue the backwardness of caste, newly robed in democratic garb - spiritually casteist and intellectually narcissist, overall quite thoroughly childish. I may vote in the future, depending on the state of my health. However given the paltry efforts made to protect my humanity thus far, I can't be too confident that I will be in a condition to place a vote with my full humanity, and capacity to make meaningful choices and decisions, intact. Thank you for your efforts. Despite having attended University of Waterloo, I was viewed and treated akin to waste material from a production line rather than a fellow student whose lived experience was of any value, as one might expect in any democratic space (or subspace).
Thank you, Melissa! You mirror my thoughts about the candidates I followed. I am puzzled by Wilmot Township results. Your comments and information throughout were very helpful.
Hi Melissa,
Great summary!!
I worked one of the Kitchener polls as a DRO and followed this election closely. Disappointment in the voter turnout (20.26% ugh) seems to be an insufficient word. There’s a lot to care about in Kitchener and the region. I hope the low voter turnout is being looked at closely and some crucial solutions for voter education and engagement are in play four years down the line!
Thrilled in particular for the elections of Colleen James, Meena Waseem, Aislinn Clancy and Ayo Owodunni. Matt Rodrigues had our votes and I truly hope he considers running again next term.
Perhaps the Wilmot results reflect the fact that the previous council were out of touch with public opinion on such issues as being sympathetic to Indigenous vandalism and removal of the historically significant PMP? What is called these days being "woke." I for one found the results very democratic! I agree most of the rest of your assessment Melissa.
Great summary!
I happen to be in the region due to casteists (the sort that are currently running the scam popularly referred to as India) who are aligned with white supremacists and Chinese authoritarian tyrants (as evidenced by the dehumanization I experienced by age 12 in Singapura). They do not care about education beyond what might be necessary to put on a stuntshow of a career, and thus have no meaningful intellectual capacity, currently, to engage in the difficult, challenging and far from straight-forward project that is democracy. They may vote, sometimes, they may participate in discussions, sometimes, but by and large, their role here is to continue the backwardness of caste, newly robed in democratic garb - spiritually casteist and intellectually narcissist, overall quite thoroughly childish. I may vote in the future, depending on the state of my health. However given the paltry efforts made to protect my humanity thus far, I can't be too confident that I will be in a condition to place a vote with my full humanity, and capacity to make meaningful choices and decisions, intact. Thank you for your efforts. Despite having attended University of Waterloo, I was viewed and treated akin to waste material from a production line rather than a fellow student whose lived experience was of any value, as one might expect in any democratic space (or subspace).