dewline: (canadian media)
Oh this is mischievous as all get out. And it took me two years to find out that it exists?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqqWcZF2Syc
dewline: (canadian media)
I'd prefer Trudeau, Carney, Davies, Angus, May and Freeland as a team on the current polycrisis. However, I'm not going to get that. Yet, if ever.

So I'll have to put up with some things and complain as needed.
dewline: "Worst President Ever!" in Russian (Russian politics)
Putin has organized the automation of psychological warfare.
dewline: (canadian media)
So.

It's on, one more time.
dewline: (canadian media)
I remember watching news about Uranium City from my childhood and teen years. That town's spiral started while I was in high school, and I remember my father visiting there once in his job with Employment + Immigration Canada (as it was back)...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/uranium-city-nuclear-mine-1.7576768
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
1. Meet some more people who believe that, in religion, there must always be compulsion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-you-should-be-worried-about-a-new-trump-appointed-commission-you-probably-haven-t-heard-of-opinion/ar-AA1IfTTD

2. A science fair about things that won't be learned.

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/science-fair-congress-canceled-grant-funding

3. Not only are we dealing with wildfires up here at home at the insistence of the fossil fuel industry, certain members of the US Congress are bashing us while Trump's making annexationist noises...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738

4. Coal Taurozzi, the last of the Parliament Hill Cats, is no more. :-(

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/last-parliament-hill-cat-dies-1.7580650

5. Our chartered banks can be mean at times. One of the latest cases in point:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rbc-bank-investigator-scam-1.7577770
dewline: (canadian media)
Just a reminder that Hey.Cafe exists. It's Canadian-based and Canadian-owned. It's an alternative to Twitter and the rest - however well-behaved they are - just in case.

My account is here:

https://hey.cafe/@dewline

Yes, I plan to try Gander as well once it opens up.
dewline: "Truth is still real" (anti-fascism)
[personal profile] solarbird has some thoughts about one of the Vulgarian's latest eruptions on "Pravda Sotsialnaya" yesterday, in which he demanded the US federal government get on with the ethnic cleansing on what I suspect to be Stephen Miller's continuing "advice". She's on point here.

This is one of the major reasons why I still think Canada should get out of the so-called "Safe Third-Country Agreement" with the US government right bloody now. Yesterday would have been better, and today would still be good. We need more people up here in Canada anyway to do all manner of work. Whether it's through regular immigration channels, regular refugee channels, or emergency "save the people about to be put through refoulement ASAP, dammit" measures.

Yes, there's a specific word for what Trump and Miller are trying to do to millions of people across the USA right now.

Refoulement.

That's what "remigration" is code for. Sending them back to the undeserved hells they've escaped from.

I intend to have a word about this with my MP and/or her staff. Today.
dewline: (canadian media)
The Bay was a retail fixture of my life. I didn't expect to outlive the company.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hudsons-bay-8300-employees-june-1-1.7544639
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
I filed my application for coverage under the federal dental insurance plan yesterday.

Finally.
dewline: Virus Don't Care (COVID-19)
You may have heard in recent months of the Canadian COVID Society. They're looking out for the rights of people living with, or trying to avoid having to live with, COVID infections across Confederation.

They just announced a new resource for such people:

https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhco2wm52w
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcowr622t
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcpjyfk2t

https://covidsociety.ca/priorities/safer-health-care/accommodation-request/
dewline: (canadian media)
We held our noses, gritted our teeth and made a choice we're not comfortable with. And yeah, we still need a minority government. If we can't have that, then we need to make our place in this clear. Not have it retroactively defined for us.
dewline: (canadian media)
So...I signed up for another service today.

https://hey.cafe/@dewline

Hey.Cafe is Canadian-owned and operated, and if I lose access to US-based services because of national/international security, there'll still be this, right?
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
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.

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