{"id":608,"date":"2019-04-26T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/?p=608"},"modified":"2019-04-26T08:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:40:25","slug":"voices-matter-the-5th-iam-canada-political-action-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"VOICES MATTER &#8211; THE 5TH IAM CANADA POLITICAL ACTION SYMPOSIUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5TH-IAM-PAC-SYMPOSIUM-GROUP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-615\" src=\"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5TH-IAM-PAC-SYMPOSIUM-GROUP-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5TH-IAM-PAC-SYMPOSIUM-GROUP-300x125.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5TH-IAM-PAC-SYMPOSIUM-GROUP-768x320.jpg 768w, http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5TH-IAM-PAC-SYMPOSIUM-GROUP-1024x427.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5TH-IAM-PAC-SYMPOSIUM-GROUP.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hollywood,\u00a0MD\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0More\u00a0than\u00a080\u00a0Canadian\u00a0IAM\u00a0political\u00a0activists gathered at the William W. Winpisinger Education Center this week for the 5th IAM Canada Political Action Symposium.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-611\" src=\"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5TH-IAM-PAC-SYMPOSIUM-KBC-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5TH-IAM-PAC-SYMPOSIUM-KBC-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5TH-IAM-PAC-SYMPOSIUM-KBC.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The\u00a0IAM\u00a0will\u00a0need\u00a0to\u00a0engage\u00a0its\u00a0membership\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0fullest\u00a0if\u00a0it\u00a0intends\u00a0to\u00a0preserve\u00a0what\u00a0we\u00a0have,\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0wake\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0populist\u00a0wave\u00a0rolling\u00a0across\u00a0Canada.\u00a0 Nowhere was this more evident than in the recent provincial election in Alberta.\u00a0 &#8220;The issues drove the voters to the polls and they were driven by social media,&#8221; explained IAM District Lodge 14 Directing Business Representative Kevin Clark.\u00a0 &#8220;There are no checks and balances with accuracy on social media and the voters bought the rhetoric of the United Conservative Party.\u00a0 Premier Elect Jason Kenny blamed the job losses in the energy sector on the NDP government but the truth is, oil production rose with 30 per cent fewer workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamaw.ca\/voices-matter-the-5th-iam-canada-political-action-symposium\/\">see full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood,\u00a0MD\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0More\u00a0than\u00a080\u00a0Canadian\u00a0IAM\u00a0political\u00a0activists gathered at the William W. Winpisinger Education Center this week for the 5th IAM Canada Political Action Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamdl14.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}