Artemis II
Apr. 1st, 2026 08:24 pmI did NOT know how much I needed to see something like the Artemis launch until I did.
Some things for consideration and concern.
There are people in the wider US intel communities with more time than sense. Warning delivered by Andrew Coyne via The Globe and Mail:
https://archive.is/20260327185628/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-maga-plan-canada-dismemberment-darc-trump/
And the DARC essay itself, entitled "Our Canadian Problem":
https://archive.is/irCkw
To the DARC author in question, Canada's continuing autonomy and desire to preserve same is "anti-Americanism". A lot of you who keep in touch with me here are Americans who know far better than "John Waterman" of DARC and their fellow-travellers, thankfully.
Yes, both countries are standing on lands under Indigenous nations' stewardship, and they too rightly have informed opinions of their own on such arguments...
There are people in the wider US intel communities with more time than sense. Warning delivered by Andrew Coyne via The Globe and Mail:
https://archive.is/20260327185628/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-maga-plan-canada-dismemberment-darc-trump/
And the DARC essay itself, entitled "Our Canadian Problem":
https://archive.is/irCkw
To the DARC author in question, Canada's continuing autonomy and desire to preserve same is "anti-Americanism". A lot of you who keep in touch with me here are Americans who know far better than "John Waterman" of DARC and their fellow-travellers, thankfully.
Yes, both countries are standing on lands under Indigenous nations' stewardship, and they too rightly have informed opinions of their own on such arguments...
In Case of Canadian Disasters?
Mar. 20th, 2026 07:21 amThis seems like a good idea...
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/20/japan/japan-roaming-service-disasters/
Update: When I raised the question on Bluesky, reporter David Reevely pointed out to me that it was already in place to some extent:
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/emergency-communications/en
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/20/japan/japan-roaming-service-disasters/
Update: When I raised the question on Bluesky, reporter David Reevely pointed out to me that it was already in place to some extent:
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/emergency-communications/en
A Message from Hegseth to Kingston
Mar. 13th, 2026 09:31 pmCanada is not a partner to Hegseth.
In his mind, we are prey.
https://www.kingstonist.com/news/u-s-armed-forces-severs-ties-with-queens-university-defence-fellowship-program/
In his mind, we are prey.
https://www.kingstonist.com/news/u-s-armed-forces-severs-ties-with-queens-university-defence-fellowship-program/
The Canadian federal government should do for the Heritage Foundation what they did for the Proud Boys: designate them as a terrorist organization.
(Noting that I have been privately and rightly warned that this might backfire given the setting of precedent, depending on who forms government over the years and decades to come.)
(Noting that I have been privately and rightly warned that this might backfire given the setting of precedent, depending on who forms government over the years and decades to come.)
About Hey!Cafe?
Jan. 11th, 2026 12:31 pmIt's like Twitter-as-was, Bluesky-as-is, and the Mastodon-Fediverse network. Canadian-based - Penticton, BC, specifically - and Canadian-owned, though. If you're in Canada and want one more fallback option for short-form social media stuff, this might be useful to you at times.
https://hey.cafe/
Just putting it out here.
https://hey.cafe/
Just putting it out here.
About that "National Security Statement"?
Dec. 9th, 2025 05:27 pmLet me know if this is paywalled?
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/its-becoming-all-too-clear-how-trump-sees-canada-no-wonder-carney-cant-get-a/article_279db437-9900-44e7-8598-300441ec2db7.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/not-the-51st-state-but-a-vassal-state-what-donald-trumps-national-security-strategy-envisions/article_abe71b85-123c-4554-84b6-825d0dcb128f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/its-becoming-all-too-clear-how-trump-sees-canada-no-wonder-carney-cant-get-a/article_279db437-9900-44e7-8598-300441ec2db7.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/not-the-51st-state-but-a-vassal-state-what-donald-trumps-national-security-strategy-envisions/article_abe71b85-123c-4554-84b6-825d0dcb128f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqqWcZF2Syc
A Thought on the Moment - 2 Nov. 2025
Nov. 2nd, 2025 07:09 pmI'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.
So I'll have to put up with some things and complain as needed.
A Reminder re: Politics
Oct. 30th, 2025 11:10 amPutin has organized the automation of psychological warfare.
Uranium City
Jul. 27th, 2025 12:54 pmI 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
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/uranium-city-nuclear-mine-1.7576768
Assorted Items of Note - 9 July 2025
Jul. 9th, 2025 05:15 pm1. 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
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
Social Media Note: Hey.Cafe
Jul. 1st, 2025 04:46 pmJust 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.
My account is here:
https://hey.cafe/@dewline
Yes, I plan to try Gander as well once it opens up.
"Remigration" and What It Means
Jun. 16th, 2025 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
The Bay: Going Away
Jun. 1st, 2025 10:08 amThe 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
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hudsons-bay-8300-employees-june-1-1.7544639
Health: Dental Milestone
May. 21st, 2025 04:17 pmI filed my application for coverage under the federal dental insurance plan yesterday.
Finally.
Finally.
