Open letter to the Canadian Polyamory Community from John Ince Hello everyone: It has been two weeks since the Polygamy Reference court decision was released by Chief Justice Baumann of the BC Supreme Court. I have thought a great deal about the case since then, and communicated with lawyers and people in our legal team about how that decision affects the members of the Canadian polyamory community. Thoughts only –
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This essay by the Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness, with several chapters in the United States,  has an excellent discussion of the nature of the separate polyamorist and polygamy communities. http://uupa.org/Literature/PolygamyComparison.htm

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Have a meet & greet, polyamory awareness event, house party, or whatever suits your community!!

Talk about the November 22nd BC Supreme court case referencing section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada (the polygamy law).

View our presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/polychickbc/cpaa-presentation10-23-2010.

At your event, please consider “passing the hat” or encouraging some pre-holiday season giving to the CPAA.

Forward details of when and where your November events are being held to support@polyadvocacy.ca and we will list them on www.polyadvocacy.ca and dearpollyamorie.blogspot.com. Polychickbc will tweet about it too.

The CPAA attended the American Poly Living 2010 conference in Seattle (organized by Loving More, the leading national polyamory organization in the US) . And not only did we attend lots of great workshops, but Zoe and I (Carole) presented a workshop on our Canadian court case! (here at http://www.slideshare.net/polychickbc/cpaa-presentation10-23-2010).

Poly Love may be Criminalized in Canada.  The Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association is asking for both funds and community support to resist this attack on our community. Please fundraise or donate!  Consider holding a poly community pub night or event for the CPAA.  We have been operating a very tight, totally volunteer driven campaign on a very limited budget and we’re now starting to have expenses in excess of  our
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Hi fellow polyamorists. We’d like to thank you for your contribution to the CPAA 2010 survey. We have already used some of the results in court filings and will continue to use the results as appropriate. Below is a summary of the results which we reported to the court.