On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Referring to this commentary, perfectly timed for this Orange Monday in particular:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/04/living-in-interesting-times.html

Charlie, I fully expect to remain unsafe from US law - despite living on Canadian soil as a Canadian citizen by birth and by choice and despite having no plans to visit the States - for the foreseeable future. You know about the annexation threats the Vulgarian's made in recent months. This is another of the reasons why (a) Hegseth was hired as US SecDef and (b) why Hegseth in turn fired those senior JAG officers.

If Carney remains PMoCanada after April 28th, we might stand a better chance of riding at least some of this bad craziness out. Ditto if either Singh or May gets the job. If Poilievre and his Conservatives win, we all get handed over without a fight from "Ottawa" AKA the federal government. I do not expect a lot of fellow Canadians to permit themselves to be handed over quietly in any case.

Just saying this much will draw unwanted attention to me, I'm sure.

I just out that Prof. Snyder's joined the Munk School. Here's his profile page:

https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timothy-snyder

And here's how I found out:

https://bsky.app/profile/nhannahjones.bsky.social/post/3llakwvszts2c

...for the Trumpomuskovians have come for the Haskell Free Library and Opera House.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/us-border-canada-quebec-stanstead-library-1.7489528

As for Mr. Dickson's warning:

“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”

Feel free to use it:

He said today that the tariffs would start on the 1st of February.

The day after the foreign election interference report is released by the federal government here in Canada, right?

The dispute between employer and workers isn't over. The workers did get ordered back to work, though, and if memory serves...the dispute has been sent to arbitration.

Subject to correction.

So Prof. Snyder wrote a thing a few days ago...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike-december

So I'm looking at Justin Trudeau's trip to visit the Vulgarian this past weekend in that light. Yes, I've read of the reports that the Vulgarian "suggested" that Trudeau become a governor of one of several newly-annexed states. I don't think that Trudeau's interested. Neither am I.

If it were AOC or Jamie Raskin making the "suggestion", I'd consider it more seriously and less nervously. Depending on the terms, it might actually be tempting.

So I'm looking at this item about Trump wanting Canadian water resources for California...and then, over to this item at the Guardian about Pete Hegseth's writings...

No, I can't afford to move. And I live in eastern Ottawa.

I believe that one of the more trustworthy Canadian info sources online at the moment re: COVID-19 is Tara Moriarty. Her main social media presence is still the Hellbirdsite, although she does maintain a Mastodon/Fediverse account as well.

https://x.com/MoriartyLab

https://mastodon.social/@MoriartyLab@med-mastodon.com

Excuse me while I politely ask her to resume cross-posting to the latter...

The logic of Stephen Harper and Donald Trump is at work here. If you make sure that you can't look for it, you won't find it. If you don't find it, it doesn't exist as a problem. If it doesn't exist as a problem, it doesn't have to be solved.

Linking to tweets by GP and occasional CBC News commentator Dr. Iris Gorfinkel:

https://x.com/DrGorfinkel/status/1841225759681364201

https://x.com/DrGorfinkel/status/1841285113486671877