Y Vote

Pure greatness. That’s what I think of what I hope will be the most important video of the NB general election. The release was last night in Moncton and is now up on Youtube. The number of views is going up and up.

The model for the video was one put together by Leonardo DiCaprio and friends during the 2008 US general election called 5 friends. Brian Gallant and Dan Gillis gathered a stellar cast of New Brunswickers to be part of the video. Despite having Bernard Lord, John McLaughlin, Lisa Merrithew, Dominic Leblanc and other prominent NBers, the younger stars stole the show.

Most importantly, the message is clear. The fundamental reason our political leaders don’t make needed and hard decisions on the economy, the environment and a litany of other issues is because no constituency supports them. We need to demand that the issues we care about be heard and VOTE for it.

Lets make this election different.

Go vote. Vas voter.

Public Intellectual

Melissa Wah, a Jill of all trades at 21inc, is making her first guest appearance on the Spin Reduxit podcast, Friday afternoon in Saint John.

As CBC reporter and podcast host Jacques Poitras writes on their blog, announcing the occasion,

Spin Reduxit loyalists in the Saint John area are invited to our very first, and altogether experimental, "live" podcast, which we will record this Fri., Aug. 13, at the City Market.

Daniel McHardie and I will be at the Java Moose Coffee location at the market from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to record an extended Spin Reduxit podcast. We're inviting three engaged, civic-minded New Brunswickers to join us for our discussion: urban activist Kurt Peacock, lawyer and former Saint John Board of Trade chair Nathalie Godbout, and Melissa Wah, a recent St. Thomas University grad who's working for 21inc, the youth leadership program.

Be sure to download the podcast next week.