From: Ashu M. G. Solo
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2025 5:06 PM
To: 'cynthia.block@saskatoon.ca' <cynthia.block@saskatoon.ca>; 'kathryn.macdonald@saskatoon.ca' <kathryn.macdonald@saskatoon.ca>; 'senos.timon@saskatoon.ca' <senos.timon@saskatoon.ca>; 'robert.pearce@saskatoon.ca' <robert.pearce@saskatoon.ca>; 'troy.davies@saskatoon.ca' <troy.davies@saskatoon.ca>; 'randy.donauer@saskatoon.ca' <randy.donauer@saskatoon.ca>; 'jasmin.parker@saskatoon.ca' <jasmin.parker@saskatoon.ca>; 'holly.kelleher@saskatoon.ca' <holly.kelleher@saskatoon.ca>; 'scott.ford@saskatoon.ca' <scott.ford@saskatoon.ca>; 'bev.dubois@saskatoon.ca' <bev.dubois@saskatoon.ca>; 'zach.jeffries@saskatoon.ca' <zach.jeffries@saskatoon.ca>; 'Web E-mail - Mayor's Office' <mayors.office@saskatoon.ca>
Subject: Campaign finance reform for Saskatoon City Council candidates
Saskatoon City Council:
This letter is in your agenda.
I want to draw your attention to this letter to the editor I wrote on campaign finance reform for Saskatoon City Council candidates:
Ashu M. G. Solo, “Change needed for the way we elect Saskatoon city council,” The StarPhoenix, Sept. 28, 2024,
URL: https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/letters/letters-change-needed-for-the-way-we-elect-saskatoon-city-council
Municipal council candidates should be banned from receiving business and union donations. Also, municipal council candidates should be banned from receiving individual donations greater than a reasonable amount like $50.
See the email below that I sent to Saskatchewan MLAs about this issue.
Sincerely,
Ashu M. G. Solo
From: Ashu M. G. Solo
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 12:54 AM
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Subject: Campaign finance reform needed for municipal council candidates
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (Sask. MLAs):
I want to draw your attention to this letter to the editor I wrote on the dire need for campaign finance reform for Saskatoon City Council candidates:
Ashu M. G. Solo, “Change needed for the way we elect Saskatoon city council,” The StarPhoenix, Sept. 28, 2024,
URL: https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/letters/letters-change-needed-for-the-way-we-elect-saskatoon-city-council
You should enact legislation to ban municipal council candidates from receiving business and union donations. Also, the legislation should ban municipal council candidates from receiving individual donations greater than a reasonable amount like $50.
Let’s have a better democracy rather than a corporatocracy or plutocracy.
Sincerely,
Ashu M. G. Solo
I, Ashu M. G. Solo, filed the following:
1. Civil rights case against the City of Saskatoon (Mayor's Office) and Councillor Randy Donauer for prayer recitations at government organized events
2. Code of Conduct complaint against Mayor Don Atchison for potential online campaign advertising violations
3. Civil rights case against the City of Saskatoon (Saskatoon Transit Services) for promoting holidays from only one religion on city buses
4. Human rights complaint against the City of Saskatoon (Executive Committee) for retaliating against me by not reappointing me to the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee and not appointing me to another civic committee or board
5. Human rights complaint against the City of Saskatoon (City Solicitor’s Office) for retaliating against me by trying to deprive me of my right to directly communicate with members of City Council and by telling employees of other City of Saskatoon departments to not talk to me
6. Human rights complaint against the City of Saskatoon (Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Office) and City of Saskatoon (Living in Harmony Ad Hoc Subcommittee of Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee) for retaliating against me by not considering my submissions to the Living in Harmony Contest
This site contains my media releases, some case documents, emails to City Council, etc.
I don't waste my time arguing with opponents.
The backlash makes me much more determined to fight against bigotry and shows the need for these civil rights cases, so I'll be filing more civil rights cases. You ain't seen nothing yet.