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Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca  ·  activity timestamp last week

…the swash s's are too much, aren't they.

(inspired by this post about how you can write to various elected and government officials for free: https://ottawa.place/@Cassandra/115395626908082995)

#calligraphy #cdnpoli

A draft letter to MP Karim Bardeesy (Taiaiak'on—Parkdale—High Park) written in far from perfect but improving English roundhand calligraphy, with old-style swash s's (ſ) and capitalized Nouns.

"Dear Sir, It is with great Diſtreſs that I learned of the Federal Gov't cutting $107 million in Funding for Sheltering Refugees and Asylum Claimants, a Decreaſe of 74%…Without the prompt Reſtoration of theſe Monies, we shall have dozens or even hundreds of Newcomers to Canada—who, I may remind you, have not even the legal Right to work—upon the Streets in the harſhest of Weather…"
A draft letter to MP Karim Bardeesy (Taiaiak'on—Parkdale—High Park) written in far from perfect but improving English roundhand calligraphy, with old-style swash s's (ſ) and capitalized Nouns. "Dear Sir, It is with great Diſtreſs that I learned of the Federal Gov't cutting $107 million in Funding for Sheltering Refugees and Asylum Claimants, a Decreaſe of 74%…Without the prompt Reſtoration of theſe Monies, we shall have dozens or even hundreds of Newcomers to Canada—who, I may remind you, have not even the legal Right to work—upon the Streets in the harſhest of Weather…"
A draft letter to MP Karim Bardeesy (Taiaiak'on—Parkdale—High Park) written in far from perfect but improving English roundhand calligraphy, with old-style swash s's (ſ) and capitalized Nouns. "Dear Sir, It is with great Diſtreſs that I learned of the Federal Gov't cutting $107 million in Funding for Sheltering Refugees and Asylum Claimants, a Decreaſe of 74%…Without the prompt Reſtoration of theſe Monies, we shall have dozens or even hundreds of Newcomers to Canada—who, I may remind you, have not even the legal Right to work—upon the Streets in the harſhest of Weather…"
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@mayintoronto@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@nev that's gorgeous tho

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