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Ignite Conference to inspire girls into political connection

I am re-blogging a blog post by local London journalist Sean Meyer on Newswriter22 (https://newswriter22.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/ignite-conference-to-inspire-girls-into-political-connection/). This is an article he wrote about a student in the Women and Civic Leadership experiential learning class I coordinate. Gabby is a phenomenal organizer, a very committed young women, and a great student. This article captures all that and advertises the conference she has organized as her project for the class and for the City of London. Ignite Conference to inspire girls into political connection March 23, 2018 newswriter22 Gabrielle Guizzo, a fourth-year political science student at King’s University College, has put together the Ignite Conference to inspire female-identifying girls to get into the political process. Growing up, Gabrielle Guizzo was the only girl in her Hamilton high school who wanted a career in politics. Today a fourth-year political science stud...

WTF? Yup, I've turned the name into a verb

It's fair to say that Christine Elliott, considered the front runner for the Ontario PC Party was "Hilary Clintoned" (Yup, I've turned the name into a verb) because both were undone by the need to territorialize the procedure of counting of votes. A process that is done with the intention of controlling the so-called unruly mob of cosmopolitan urban voters. November 2016, Hilary Clinton wins the popular vote, beating Donald Trump by nearly 3 million votes (2,868,691) or 48.2% of all voters to Trump's 46.1%. However, she loses the Presidency because when the state tally of electoral college votes is done, she is down by 77 (Trump 304, Clinton 227). She may have won some of the most populous states in the U.S.A, i.e., California and New York, but she lost most of the rural states, and in rural states the votes are worth more. In similar fashion, Christine Elliot has just lost the Ontario PC Party leadership race to Doug Ford even though in the first round she wo...