Not-So-Random Societal Notes

1. This is a component in what David Brin would rightly call a "War on Expertise". It's got to be resisted.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-conservatives-on-campus-flyers-maligning-left-wing-professors-anger/

2. The problems are linked. And I cannot help but suspect that the revival of white-supremacist fascism is intended to put the skids under the environmental protection/rescue movement.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/14/naomi-klein-we-are-seeing-the-beginnings-of-the-era-of-climate-barbarism

3. The official listing of registered political parties in Canada, for your reference.

https://elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e

FANDOM: Aurora Awards

I'm trying to remember the last time I voted in those awards at all. Coming up blank, and that negligence falls upon my karma - what there is of it - considering I was once a co-nominee for co-editing the Ottawa SF Society Statement what seems like a couple of decades ago. (It was a particularly chaotic couple of years, if memory serves at all.)

But it finally got done before deadline today this year.

And we'll find out who's won at Can-Con next month.