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Ottawa Land Value Tax Meetup URL

  • https://www.commonwealth.ca/ottawa

LVT Meetup Concept

  • Liam and Ken brainstormed centering LVT events on a monopoly theme.

LVT Meetup Abstract

  • Ken is contemplating abstracting away from ‘LVT meetup’ to ‘Land Meetup’ to include Housing and CLT and LVR.
  • Mockup created to get buy-in.

Ottawa Venue Option

  • Suggested by Frank: Impact Hub Ottawa.

CJPAC ACTION West 2026

  • Ken’s family friend Lana Pulver is a featured speaker. Ken will attend and can leverage his attendance for SES if desired. He needs instructions/materials.

BIEN Canada Day Meetup

  • Chris Ford to offer his office again for BIEN Canada Day evening meetup, Wed Aug 19 2026.

BIEN Congress Toronto

  • SES will be a partner.
  • Plan to drive registration, speaker spotlights, live broadcast.
  • Local meetup earlier in the week-of.
  • Invite key influencers.
  • Submit talks (abstracts in works).
  • Registration to open soon, call for proposals end of Feb.
  • Ken submitted a talk on GBI funded by LVT.
  • UBI Works logo to be added to website.
  • Meeting with organizers for communication, reaching out to non-traditional partners/influencers, and other planning.
  • Canada Day daytime of Wed Aug 19, day before official Congress starts. Not at TMU, venue TBD, lower ticket price $25 with separate registration.
  • Ken plans to pitch an evening Wed meetup to Chris Ford at Electric Mind.
  • BIEN organizing call notes: lots of interest from US participants for proposals, but not many Canadians. Sheila’s priority is getting quality proposals from Canadians.
  • Ken planning two talks: 1) Job Automation / Post-Labor Economy, 2) Movement Building (how to convince skeptics / GBI vs. UBI). Floyd/Liam to do a 3rd on LVT.
  • Conrad Shaw and Scott Santens apparently are proposing their film to be played.
  • Total 55 slots, 10 proposals so far (1 from Canadian, Jim Mulvale). Expect 100-200 after Americans.
  • UBI Works to create 2026 Congress comms/marketing plan (messaging, audience, schedule, CTAs).
  • Building a list of “Moonshot” influencers to invite.

Toronto Housing & LVT Meetup

  • Individual speaker clips shared (Eric Lombardi, Dr. Francis Peddle, Ken Yang).
  • Full meetup video shared.
  • TO New Liberals x More Neighbours TO x Common Wealth event(s) in the works.
  • Ken gave a 10-min intro presentation on Land.
  • Frank suggested more LVT meetups in Toronto, Calgary, and Edmonton. Ottawa on back burner until Fall 2026.

Vancouver Meetup Signup

  • Template meetup signup using Google Forms for Vancouver. Advantages: free, grassroots UX, 1-screen submission.

Electric Mind / Chris Ford

  • Chris Ford agreed to host a meetup with Eric Lombardi in 0 mins.
  • Electric Mind recently rebranded and pivoted to AI-led engineering for financials.

David Shapiro Interview

  • Hosting David Shapiro for a recorded conversation on UBI and a world after work, Fri Oct 17 1PM ET. Dalibor Petrovic to join.
  • David suggested topic: Is UBI communism? Ken is interested in technological abundance.
  • David’s first video shared.

Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend

  • Social promo for Alaska interview, coincided with email sent to full list.

Misc

  • Subscriber suggests using Hinton video in politico campaign.
  • Geoff Hinton responded and agreed to do an interview. Dates to be found.
  • Frank created a new community in Digg for Georgism. Happy to cede moderation.

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