Since 19 April 2006 the Waterloo Region Chapter of Fair
Vote Canada has served Waterloo Region: Kitchener,
Waterloo, Cambridge, and the surrounding townships.
Residents of other nearby locations (such as Guelph)
are also welcome to participate in the Chapter's
activities.

You can contact the Waterloo Region Chapter of Fair
Vote Canada by e-mail at "mailto:waterlooregion@fairvote.ca" title=
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We organize many chapter activities using the Internet.
The Waterloo Region Chapter has a page on Facebook and is “@fairvotewrc” on Identi.ca and Twitter.

There are also mailing lists for the Waterloo Region
Chapter that anyone can join. You don't need to
be affiliated with Fair Vote Canada to join these
lists!

• Our low-volume, announcement-only list is called
  "fvc-wat-announce". On this list we announce chapter
  events, activities, and meetings. Everybody who wants
  to keep informed of chapter activities should subscribe
  to this list by visiting the fvc-wat-announce list signup page.
• We also have a discussion list called
  "fvc-wat-disc" for event planning and discussion
  amongst participants. You want to subscribe to this
  list if you are interested in helping organize Chapter
  activities or discussing the state of Electoral Reform
  in Waterloo. Subscribe by visiting the fvc-wat-disc list signup page.

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Issue #3, 2008

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS — FEDERAL ELECTION FAIR VOTING
CAMPAIGN

Another federal election is upon us and the executive
members of the Waterloo Region Fair Vote Canada Chapter
have developed an activity plan to raise awareness
about the need for electoral reform during the
campaign.

We are focusing on two tasks:

1. Sending letters to local newspapers linking
   electoral reform to the federal election
2. Attending all candidates' debates to ask questions
   about electoral reform and to distribute literature

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full newsletter)

Here is some of the Waterloo
Region media coverage about fair voting, the
chapter, and the Ontario Citizens' Assembly.

Some good educational materials are available on the
government's Citizens'
Assembly Website. In particular, the "Classroom"
section contains a lot of good information.

TV Ontario is publishing Video and
Podcasts from the Citizens' Assembly plenary
sessions.

Here are some possible
activities the chapter might take on. They were
brainstormed during our April 2006 AGM.

Here are our Chapter
Bylaws.

The following groups have cosponsored events and/or
expressed support for the Waterloo Region Chapter:

• The Wilfrid
  Laurier Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work
  provided us with meeting space.

• The Working
  Centre in downtown Kitchener provided us with
  meeting space.

• The good folks at CCj/Clearline donated
  hosting for our mailing lists.
• The University of Waterloo Conservatives
  cosponsored the November 2, 2006 talk.
• The University of Waterloo Young Liberals
  cosponsored the November 2, 2006 talk.
• The Waterloo Public
  Interest Research Group provided resources to help
  get this chapter started, sponsored our initial event
  by Larry Gordon, and cosponsored the November 2, 2006
  talk.
• The Laurier
  Students' Public Interest Research Group sponsored
  the November 14, 2006 talk.
• The Kitchener-Waterloo Humanist
  Movement provided a booth for the Chapter during
  the 2006 Nonviolence Festival.

You can contact the Waterloo
Region Chapter of Fair Vote Canada by e-mail at

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