So, the phone canvassing office has been going relatively well. We’ve been using a voice-over-internet call center technology from directleap.com that vastly increases our ability to reach people.
We could use a little more people. All it requires is to commit to come to the office in downtown Ottawa either Tuesday or Thursday evening until May 12th, the day of the referendum.
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Ok, so its relatively easy to get an article as a lead on Wikinews.
Still, I’m proud…. 
It’s my first article contribution to Wikinews. The article was revised and edited by at least half a dozen volunteers. I initially created an article just about the referendum, others made sure it wasn’t pro-STV biased and added contributions from other sources plus information about the election.
Wow, this clip covering the launch of the BC-STV campaign fell short of being of public value and it was very one-sided.
The journalist (and whoever edited the clip) fell short of doing their job. Instead of showing how the ballot would look like, interviewing a member of the Citizens Assembly, pointing to where people can get more info (he could have stayed unbiased by showing the URLs of both yes and no campaigns), the journalist spent 29% (36 seconds) of the 126 second clip interviewing ignorant people about the referendum or being critical of the spending to educate the public on civic matters.
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OK! So I’ve heard this argument so many times now against electoral reform I thought I’d save it here for the next time I hear this rhetoric for preserving the status quo.
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland. They all have proportional representation and they are doing fine.
