dewline: "Truth is still real" (anti-fascism)
So while I've been working at my day job, I've also been using the afternoons to listen to this year's edition of CBC Radio's Massey Lectures series. Some of you may be familiar to varying degrees with the author delivering them...?

https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/ideas/2023-cbc-massey-lectures-astra-taylor

I needed to hear these six hours' worth of radio.
dewline: Virus Don't Care (pandemic)
Listening to The House on CBC Radio One at the moment. There is a class-action lawsuit intended to bring those who donated to the organizers of the Convoy Siege of Ottawa last winter to account financially for their role in keeping that siege going, and the consequences of it to the people living and working in downtown Ottawa. Listening to James Manson argue against that lawsuit is quietly infuriating me further.

And they move on to the medical consequences of "misinformation"...which certainly motivated some of the Convoy participants. Others were there to promote and enforce disinformation re: masking and vaccines. And we do not forget that "memorandum of understanding" calling for the removal of the Trudeau government, either. Timed to coincide with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, said invasion still underway. (Speaking of which: after the Convoy lawsuit, the show moves on to "how do we properly solve the Wagner group?", referring to the mercenary organization "working" alongside the Russian military against the Ukrainians.)
dewline: Text: Trekkish Chatter Underway (TrekChatter)
That was Ali Hassan - from CBC Radio! - playing Garry Walberg's TOS character from "Balance of Terror" on tonight's episode, right?
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
Noting that As It Happens has taken on Ottawa Morning's long-time host Robyn Bresnahan as one of its current co-hosts.
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Practicing with the Cintiq and Clip Studio Paint and listening to Cross Country Checkup on CBC Radio.

Two things I am reminded of:

1. I have to got to learn to loosen up in my illustration process.

2. I am absolutely okay with the Confidence and Supply agreement between the federal Liberals and NDP right now. There's things I want to add to their to-do list (like eye care), but this was a possibility I was okay with when I cast my vote.
dewline: (canadian media)
Canada got a bit of a shock last night: Carol Off is ending 16 years as co-host of As It Happens on CBC Radio at the end of next month. Hers is a voice I've gotten used to hearing on the radio, of course, being a longtime CBC listener. The series will continue, of course, well into what we hope is its next full half-century.

The town of Tilbury, Ontario is getting a pleasant shock of its own: they're going to have a newspaper of their own again. Mohsin Abbas, a journalist originally from Pakistan now calling Canada home, is doing the work to make that happen for the Tilbury Times, liberating the brand - so we hope - from Postmedia control. The CBC News report goes into a lot more detail about Tilbury, Mr. Abbas, and the process of rescue and revival.
dewline: (amusement)
I am listening to All In a Day on CBC Radio One, and Alan Neal is fielding questions from kids about Christmas. One about what do reindeer enjoy games-wise got pivoted to SF writer Julie Czerneda - turns out she's also a biologist! - and Julie just improvised an answer about how antlers can be repurposed as hockey sticks!

(Yes, Julie and I chat on occasion at bookstores, at Can-Con events, and so on.)
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Ideas is replaying a defence of nihilism on CBC Radio One as I type this.

Meanwhile, I'm reading Rabble.ca articles.

Tomorrow, I hope to make time to resume work on a commission sketch. The reference materials sent to me for this one have been challenging reading. Somewhat more challenging to print out in a legible fashion.
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I just got home from walking exercise, which I needed to have. The weather is grey, unseasonably warm and wet, hereabouts this afternoon.

A few days ago, George Pérez broke the news of his inoperable stage 3 pancreatic cancer diagnosis, as I noted here.

Right now, I'm listening to an episode of White Coat, Black Art via CBC's On Demand radio services devoted to consequences of the Pandemic as regards cancer diagnoses in general across Canada...and the effects on the cancer-fighting sector of the medical professions, particularly morale and mental health.

So there's me, connecting dots, right? Dots that I'm not sure need connecting, because what's the point of it beyond blame-casting?

2 July 2021

Jul. 2nd, 2021 09:59 am
dewline: Text: Searching and Researching (research)
Job search has resumed this morning, of course. Checking the alerts I'm subscribed to, logging into assorted websites to look for new leads, and so on.

I've been listening to The Current since logging into my computer. Life goes on around me, regardless.
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Expecting to listen to this after tonight's Ottawa SF Society monthly Zoom-chat session:

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk
dewline: Text: Searching and Researching (research)
Listening to this as I continue the job search this morning:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/beware-of-bitter-oranges-modern-lessons-from-a-medieval-thinker-1.6078888
dewline: Virus Don't Care (coronavirus)
So that's taken care of. The people at the pharmacy where it was done tell me to expect a reminder about second dose in four weeks.

And it was Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine I got today.

More on other topics later...

Meantime, I'm listening to this on Ideas...
dewline: (canadian media)
The job search continues. I've got two offers, one I have to decline because lack of experience and temperament. The other seems to be real, and might be interesting. There's no guarantees, of course, but I'll wait for the reply to my reply.

While I keep looking for other leads in the meantime, there's this episode of Ideas about the sounds of space, "Music on Mars". And there is sound to be listened to and to be listened for.

More later...
dewline: Doctor Who quote: Books. Best Weapons in the World (Books)
Continuing the job search this afternoon.

Also: revisiting the history of the Declaration of the Independence of the Mind via Ideas. If you're interested in the text of that original declaration from 1919, here's a link.

(I wonder if Leslie Charteris might have read that Declaration. Some of the stuff in those Saint stories of his gets me thinking now about the possibility. Certainly, if he had, he'd have put it aside for the needs of World War 2 and the battle against fascism as it presented itself to our world back then.)

On a related note: Ideas, the CBC Radio series, is devoting some time over this past broadcast season of 2020-'21 to the theme of The Common Good. Other instalments of that series of broadcasts may be accessed here.

More on other topics as today goes by...
dewline: Community is Real! (community)
Under discussion on Ideas tonight:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/with-the-world-in-crisis-what-s-an-intellectual-to-do-1.5989044

Quoting the page:
What is the duty of intellectuals — our scholars, authors and artists — at a time of social division and global crises?

In the first spring after the First World War, French novelist and essayist Romain Rolland began writing what he called Declaration of the Independence of the Mind: a document aimed at healing the rift among intellectuals divided by war, and re-establishing the primacy of truth over and above any national or ideological border.

Later that year, and despite some reservations, it was signed by the likes of Albert Einstein and published on the front page of L'Humanite, a socialist French newspaper.

More than a century later, the world navigates a different kind of international crisis, one that has nevertheless also brought death and widespread economic devastation and isolation, as well as a new brand of ultra-nationalism that has divided the world anew...

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