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This got passed on to me from the United Church of Canada Twitter feed (yes, I was a bit surprised they use Twitter). They’ve linked to a page over at KAIROS that lists seven things you can do to support KAIROS and try to let the federal Conservatives know you don’t appreciate or support their funding cuts.

I’ll note as an aside that not listed in the members of the Federal Cabinet to contact is Jason Kenney, the Minister of Immigration who set off the firestorm by claiming KAIROS Canada’s funding was cut because they were anti-Israel/anti-Semitic, so I’m slightly curious whether this page was made before Jason Kenney opened his mouth to spew his rant (which did however serve a useful purpose in finding out why the Conservatives had instructed CIDA to cut KAIROS Canada funding a year or so after CIDA had issued a very positive report on the work KAIROS had done).

Not that it matters; I don’t think Kenney is the person to be writing to on this anyhow; he’s not shown himself to be a particularly reasonable guy.

UPDATE @ 11:09 am: Courtesy of Buckdog’s Twitter feed, we get this press release:

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