"Who am I?" I mutter at the empty text field. It doesn't answer. I wouldn't want it to. Once and always, Action Jay, a guy on the internet for far too long. I've seen it all, and trying my best to keep it together. A live window to my day to day life and musings can be found on Mastodon, currently at thecanadian.social/@action_jay You'll see me talking about local politics in Saskatoon, geeking out about TTRPGs and Video Games, hammering drums for various causes, and just enjoying life as it comes. Meanwhile, here, on this page, we'll see occasional big life updates in the form of those blog posts the kids are always talking about.

Friday, November 13, 2026

I'm also a policy wonk

A couple weeks ago I was tapped yet again my by local union for a little project; head down to Regina, learn how to lobby, and then interface with some MLAs around policies that Unifor at a national level want to see put into action. I was one of a pretty big group, and I got to be in one of the several meetings across the table from members of the Saskatchewan NDP caucus, and it felt pretty cool! After the meeting, we got to sit in for question period and enjoy a shoutout during the introduction of guests. And in between there was a lot of networking and even a rally as we joined up with CUPE regarding the health care workers' lack of a contract five years running.

So after all this, I returned home and got the packet of resolutions for the upcoming convention. Turns out pretty much everything we were after had been submitted by various executives and will be up for discussion! Among those, my own advocating that the party adopt an open social media strategy, following the Plus1 Manifesto. Mine sits with a few others regarding opposition to hyperscale data center builds and direction for digital soveriegnty (as I write this, Microsoft's cloud hosted services have been down for about 18 hours, so that'll be a fun topic).

I'm heading to Regina once again now, this time as a delegate for my constituency, and will get to spend more time meeting and greeting and socialising across the party while we go through business. Really looking forward to it!
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