The Need For a Proper Central Morgue in Ottawa

This news came as a minor shock this morning. Back in 2002, when my Dad died, we had the freedom to release him directly to the funeral home of our choice because he'd died at home and the cause of his death was fairly clear and we had some time to brace for the need to make that choice. Not every death can be handled that quickly, though...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-hospital-morgues-full-conference-rooms-1.5416916

"We deserve to have everything done in our language."

As regards the Report on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls:

"Everything that's printed should be in the language. We deserve to have everything done in our languages." - Patricia Ningewance, translator

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mmiwg-inquiry-translation-indigenous-languages-1.5364887

While I Was Out, the Worlds Changed Again

I went to a meeting of the local riding association for the provincial New Democratic Party tonight. My supper beforehand was British-style chips and a Coke. And I participated in an uncontested nomination meeting. Party leader Andrea Horwath showed up in person to rally the troops. Sat right in the row in front of me for the first few minutes before being called up to do that rallying. I expect that some of the local news services tomorrow will announce our candidate's name and some of her history. Maybe this will do some good.

While that was going on, Iran's current "management" rang in chapter two of the Evil-Kill-Dance between them and the Trump by firing rockets at two air bases in Iraq that US forces were stationed at in reply to the Trump's drone-assisted disposal of Qasem Suleimani's life over the weekend. Thanks to both governments' leaders for absolutely nothing of worth and value.

Meanwhile, the quest for exoplanets continues to accumulate successes. Of particular interest tonight are worlds orbiting TOI-700 Doradus and TOI-1338 Pictoris. The latter is already being compared to Star Wars' Tatooine system because of the binary stars angle.

(My apologies for mashing IAU standard star-naming/cataloguing practices up here like this. I just wanted to make clear which parts of our skies to look to.)

The worlds are a mess. And likely to stay that way.

More on other stuff as the night goes on.