On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

1. I really don't trust François Legault's definition of "secularisme" in Québec.

2. Looks like papermail delivery is restarting in Canada tomorrow (AKA December 17th, 2024). I worry about the possible consequences of how that was arranged.

3. If you've watched a recent Hallmark Christmas-themed movie, you might have seen parts of Ottawa.

From CBC News:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kia-canada-car-sales-1.7063216

Considering that we need to pick up the pace of EV adoption across multiple countries, who else is doing this, and in how many countries?

For a little bit of comedy relief from a place some relatives call home:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/melville-home-hardware-pharmasave-bmo-sign-war-1.6063261

Update from Global News:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7943168/sign-war-takes-over-city-of-melville/

Listening to this because Stacey Abrams (among others):

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-magazine-for-may-2-2021-1.6008904

Reading this as well:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/this-mission-to-deep-space-could-last-a-lifetime-or-even-more-1.6008763

From CBC Radio.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/cbc-radio-s-the-house-june-20-2020-1.5619836

Michael Enright just announced that he's stepping down as host of The Sunday Edition to close out this week's edition. Resignation to take effect in five weeks. The series will continue with a new host - as it should, since Enright is not the first host the series ever had - and Enright will continue in other work with and for CBC Radio.

I am still surprised. And, yet, not surprised. Pandemic or not, this change would have happened eventually anyway.

Twenty years...

Sharing this...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/photos-march-25-ottawa-1.5508932

A sampling of glimpses across my home city...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-covid-19-closures-pandemic-1.5499056

Their news site pages didn't use to freeze my browser for minutes at a time. Yes, my preferred browser is older than many consider preferable, but still, it's been getting problematic in the last few weeks. And it shouldn't.

So it seems that we're sharing the city with some odd - but not impossible - company.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/coyote-arboretum-sightings-ottawa-1.5385118

At least they got the inevitable cartoon name-pun out of the way via the headline.