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sabotabby!
May. 16th, 2023 09:09 pmMay your revolution(s) be triumphant!
Happier birthdays to
May. 16th, 2023 09:09 pm
World Press Freedom Day 2023
May. 3rd, 2023 08:47 amNoting that today matters, and this is one more of the reasons why:
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom
Apparently, this is the 30th anniversary of the start of this practice.
https://rsf.org/en/2023-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-threatened-fake-content-industry?data_type=general&year=2023
https://j-source.ca/introducing-staying-alive-preserving-local-news-in-canada/
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom
Apparently, this is the 30th anniversary of the start of this practice.
https://rsf.org/en/2023-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-threatened-fake-content-industry?data_type=general&year=2023
https://j-source.ca/introducing-staying-alive-preserving-local-news-in-canada/
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Dec. 24th, 2022 09:32 amI've noted this in years past: in 2002, on Christmas Day, my father died of metastasized renal cell cancer. Some forty years earlier, a cousin of mine was born on Christmas Day.
The day has been a mixed blessing for my extended family across the decades, and I wait and wonder what twists the occasion will bring this time.
And so...here is us again. Those of us still here, anyway.
It's been a wild year, running the full range of emotion from joy to despair.
I wish you the best possible greetings of the Season, by whatever Name(s) you choose to honour it. I wish you peace, hope, wisdom, freedom, justice, and love. If you do not find them, may they find you and may it bring joy to you when they do.
The day has been a mixed blessing for my extended family across the decades, and I wait and wonder what twists the occasion will bring this time.
And so...here is us again. Those of us still here, anyway.
It's been a wild year, running the full range of emotion from joy to despair.
I wish you the best possible greetings of the Season, by whatever Name(s) you choose to honour it. I wish you peace, hope, wisdom, freedom, justice, and love. If you do not find them, may they find you and may it bring joy to you when they do.
École Polytechnique: We Still Remember
Dec. 6th, 2022 11:28 amGeneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
Happier birthdays to radargrrl!
Nov. 29th, 2022 09:20 amWe've known each other going back a couple of decades now through first Livejournal, then Dreamwidth and also Facebook and elsewhere. Glad to still be in touch and in friendship!
Remembrance of Another Sort
Nov. 20th, 2022 09:54 amI don't know who I've lost to violence because of this aspect of their lives. Some of you have lived at risk since long before you and I got to know each other.
I'm trying to be here for if/when you need to talk.
Leaving it at that.
I'm trying to be here for if/when you need to talk.
Leaving it at that.
Remembrance Day 2022
Nov. 11th, 2022 07:31 amAnother year, another Remembrance Day.
I don't think I'll be going back to the War Memorial in person today. I don't trust to the transit system's lack of mask rules in place right now that far. I do have a place that I can go to honour the spirit of the day, with the mixed feelings that one ought to have about this day.
Whether you call today "Remembrance", "Armistice" or "Veterans'" Day...I wish you well.
I don't think I'll be going back to the War Memorial in person today. I don't trust to the transit system's lack of mask rules in place right now that far. I do have a place that I can go to honour the spirit of the day, with the mixed feelings that one ought to have about this day.
Whether you call today "Remembrance", "Armistice" or "Veterans'" Day...I wish you well.
To those of you observing those occasions, I hope today is kind to you!
If you've been living in any Ontario municipality long enough, you probably already know that today is the final day of voting for your local mayor/reeve, your local councillor and school board representative. I hope that if you haven't already done so, you'll take what time you can to go vote for your preference for those positions. The next four years' municipal decision-making rides at least in part on the choices we've been making on those matters.
If you've been living in any Ontario municipality long enough, you probably already know that today is the final day of voting for your local mayor/reeve, your local councillor and school board representative. I hope that if you haven't already done so, you'll take what time you can to go vote for your preference for those positions. The next four years' municipal decision-making rides at least in part on the choices we've been making on those matters.
Truth and Reconciliation Day 2022
Sep. 30th, 2022 10:06 amThis is the second year on which the federal government of what we currently call Canada observes this occasion.
There was a long, winding skein of roads taken by millions of people to get from there to here. A lot of life and death and pain and joy, and many of the states of being in between.
I find myself still looking for paying work on this day, regardless of these truths. I feel guilt over disrespect committed by doing that.
Since I'm going to have a death some day - whether I want it or not - I want to die in a country that conducts itself better, where all the people are kinder to one another than we've been up to now. I am angered by those who consider acts of kindness to be treasonous or worse against their understanding of Canada. Against their belief of what Canada should be.
Yes, we've been horrifically unkind to one another. That's why the Residential Schools existed in the first place, to enforce cruelty in law. That's why there was slavery. Why some seek to restore the protection of law to cruelty.
No more.
There was a long, winding skein of roads taken by millions of people to get from there to here. A lot of life and death and pain and joy, and many of the states of being in between.
I find myself still looking for paying work on this day, regardless of these truths. I feel guilt over disrespect committed by doing that.
Since I'm going to have a death some day - whether I want it or not - I want to die in a country that conducts itself better, where all the people are kinder to one another than we've been up to now. I am angered by those who consider acts of kindness to be treasonous or worse against their understanding of Canada. Against their belief of what Canada should be.
Yes, we've been horrifically unkind to one another. That's why the Residential Schools existed in the first place, to enforce cruelty in law. That's why there was slavery. Why some seek to restore the protection of law to cruelty.
No more.
And the "Memories" function of Facebook just reminded me that the first anniversary of my finally buying my own CPAP kit is coming up fast. In days.
The time both plods and flies.
The time both plods and flies.
Terry Fox Day 2022
Sep. 18th, 2022 10:19 amNoticing the little pylons marking the route for the runners in my neighbourhood this morning during my own walking.
...that there is still more than the one that falls on this date. This link to an earlier blog entry serves to name anew at least a half-dozen that matter to me in various ways:
https://dewline.dreamwidth.org/1559387.html
Oh, and from Elayne Riggs, who still lives in New York, a question that still stands a year later:
https://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2021/09/twenty-try-two-hundred.html
I suspect that we can both ask that question over and over, from now until the Day of Judgement, and the answer is still going to be "no". That answer won't be fair, won't be just in any way, and it's still going to be the answer we'll both keep getting.
I hope to someday be wrong in a pleasant way.
https://dewline.dreamwidth.org/1559387.html
Oh, and from Elayne Riggs, who still lives in New York, a question that still stands a year later:
https://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2021/09/twenty-try-two-hundred.html
I suspect that we can both ask that question over and over, from now until the Day of Judgement, and the answer is still going to be "no". That answer won't be fair, won't be just in any way, and it's still going to be the answer we'll both keep getting.
I hope to someday be wrong in a pleasant way.
Star Trek Day 2022
Sep. 8th, 2022 01:11 pmSo...56th anniversary of the first broadcast is today?
Hoping those of you who also find some joy in Trek in general are able to celebrate today!
Hoping those of you who also find some joy in Trek in general are able to celebrate today!
Human Rights: Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce
Aug. 9th, 2022 08:17 pmIt's been a century since Dr. Bryce published his report calling out the abuses done to Indigenous children in the Residential Schools.
https://twitter.com/CaringSociety/status/1557076138723344384
#OrangeShirtDay is coming around...in two months.
https://twitter.com/CaringSociety/status/1557076138723344384
#OrangeShirtDay is coming around...in two months.
To those of you observing either or both of these events today...I hope that this day is kind to you.
Pride, Juneteenth, Father's Day
Jun. 19th, 2022 10:05 amThey all seem to be falling in together today.
However you observe each of these occasions, I hope today is kind to you.
However you observe each of these occasions, I hope today is kind to you.
In the former case, I'm a day late. In the latter, I'm a day early. I hope you'll both forgive my timing on this, and that better times await you both!
Happier birthdays to bunsen_h!
Apr. 19th, 2022 09:52 amWe've been friends - at least, friendly acquaintances! - for decades through the Ottawa SF Society, National Capital FreeNet, and elsewhere!
