Originally written on 2025/09/17 in Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

Electoral reform in Canada has been discussed, but not talked about or thought through enough.

A big part of the election of Justin Trudeau’s majority government for 4 years and reign as Prime Minister for 10 years was his promise that the 2015 Canadian federal election would be the last under the first-past-the-post system.

Many forget or never realized he was an acting teacher before following in his father’s footsteps, but it is common knowledge that most actors will do or say anything to get their desired role.

Suggestion: sell the name and branding of OHL/CHL Kitchener Rangers and apply for expansion or relocation of an existing team in the minor professional leagues, the AHL or ECHL. Or advocate for the CHL and its 61 existing franchises to be re-established as a minor professional league itself for players age 18+ who are paid salaries, as another feeder league to the NHL. Or to merge or have franchises distributed to the existing leagues of the AHL and ECHL.

Originally written on 2025/06/10 in Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

(Warning: this paper discusses instances of sexual abuse by church and educational leaders).

Since I dropped out of the Computer Science and Business Administration double-degree program through University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University after 2 years in 2017 and decided instead to focus my studies on the humanities, social sciences, and the matters of religion, spirituality, and philosophy, I have been engaged in a very non-Mennonite-esque phenomenon: a war. Not a physically violent war, and not a constant war but a war consisting of many types of battles: intellectual, ideological, emotional, spiritual, political, and relational.

Originally written in 2010/05 in Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada for a Grade 7 English poetry assignment.

(Written two years after the Amateur Major Junior (age 16-20) Ontario Hockey League [OHL] Kitchener Rangers’ Canadian Hockey League [CHL] Memorial Cup championship final loss on home ice at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium in Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada on 2008/05/25 against the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League [WHL] who are based in Spokane, Washington, United States of America.

Description for book published on Amazon that is no longer available. The purpose of publishing the book was to consolidate all my writing into one place and by doing so re-study it all enough to come up with concise overarching messages or lessons I wanted to convey from all the writing I had done that I believed was significant that I had access to from the year 2010 (when I was in Grade 7 and age 12) to this year in 2026.

Now that this process has been completed, I don’t feel it is useful for myself or others to have all of this writing available for purchase in book form, but I am posting the pieces of writing that I still believe in and are relevant to myself and the world here on this website jonathanmwklassen.com.

Transcribed from what was originally branded as Consciousness Prints Podcast Monologue 3, originally spoken on 2024/11/06 in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.

Hey, it’s me Jonathan.

As you can see, this is kind of an odd situation I’m in here, but, uh, might as well make the most of it and use it as an opportunity to talk more about stuff.

I find…here, now I have light, I’ll pause it…

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I find, that well, for one thing, walking is the best way to reflect on stuff, for me at least.

Maybe there is a difference between personality types? I don’t know. In any case, walking in general or exercising in general is good for everyone.