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I have received emails from the BC Liberals for a while now, every time I get one, I mark it as spam. Why? Because every single email the BC Liberals has ever sent me, is spam. Most of the emails I mark as spam without reading, but from the ones with titles ambiguous enough that I’d click on it, it’s evident that my email was added to some mailing list for BC Liberals propaganda. All form letters, many of which designed to get their supporters do to something.

I have never signed up to any BC Liberals spam list, in fact I have never given them my email address by any means. Their frequent emails are wholly unsolicited and unwanted. How did my address end up on their spam list? My best guess is that a Liberal supporter/organizer who shall remain unnamed took some unrequested liberty with use of my email address. I gave him my email to continue a conversation about some BCYL event I was marginally interested in, nothing was mentioned about being added to a spam list. I decided that the event wouldn’t have worked out with my schedule, and that should have been it, but soon I started receiving BC Liberal spam. Correlated much?

The Liberals, NDP, and Bloc are finally working together to form a functional coalition government which represents Canadians far more accurately than the Tory minority we currently have, yet people all over are accusing it of being undemocratic. It’s no surprise that the conservatives are whining, they don’t want to loose totalitarian grip over the other 60% of the country. But even some non-conservatives are buying into the fabrication that a coalition is somehow undemocratic, unjust, or otherwise illegitimate.

The only argument that’s being used against this coalition is that Canadians elected a “Tory government”, and that it is disrespectful or dishonest for the other parties to “steal” the government from them. This is such a flawed argument I’d be amused at its ubiquitous adoption if it weren’t so said that so many Canadians are either idiots or too lazy to look up the facts.

Earlier today I was linked to The Peak’s report on IEC appointments, in which I was briefly mentioned:

Shen gave a less compelling presentation. “Seeing as one day I want to be a lawyer and a judge, I am very capable of being impartial,” said Shen. The Board decided not to ratify him.

I wasn’t planning on discussing the precursors to my application (and I don’t like talking about myself), but this seems like an invitation to do so.

I did inquire about the IEC late last semester (1081), it’s a unique body within the SFSS and the jobs were rather interesting. However, I haven’t really decided to apply as a commissioner, and that was put completely out of contemplation the moment I was elected as the Criminology representative on Forum, since one can’t be on both Forum and the IEC. So for about two weeks, I thought I was going to be a Forum rep, and that’s the end of the story. But that kind of changed a bit on the day IEC appointments were made.

Senate Elections

It’s been a few weeks since the Senate elections took place, but I never found time to write this entry. Unfortunately, I was not elected as a student senator, coming in 11th place, right on the line. The complete senate results are as follows (top 10 are elected).