Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan
Jun. 21st, 2025 10:28 pmDammit, Donnie.
You and the rest of your gang...just cannot leave well enough alone, can you?
You and the rest of your gang...just cannot leave well enough alone, can you?
"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.
École Polytechnique: We Still Remember
Dec. 6th, 2024 06:10 pmGeneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
École Polytechnique: We Still Remember
Dec. 6th, 2023 11:00 pmGeneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
If you actually own a house, you need to watch out for this.
It may or may not be confined to Toronto.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fraudulent-home-sale-1.6710868
It may or may not be confined to Toronto.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fraudulent-home-sale-1.6710868
(no subject)
Dec. 21st, 2022 09:00 am1. Someone sees the work of the Guardian as a threat.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/21/guardian-hit-by-serious-it-incident-believed-to-be-ransomware-attack
2. If you're trying to get in or out of metropolitan Vancouver, Canada, you'll need more patience than usual:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/winter-weather-flight-cancellations-1.6693294
3. Same for Ottawa-Gatineau.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/don-t-travel-this-weekend-if-you-don-t-need-to-opp-says-1.6692802
4. Mon-Fri 9-5 may be over for many, but what's taking its place in the federal civil service may be problematic in other ways for the staff as much as for the public. Especially in Ottawa-Gatineau where we don't have mask rules back in place yet.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-departments-hybrid-directive-responses-1.6692401
5. The Convoy Siege of Ottawa continues to have consequences for a lot of people living here.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/zexi-li-freedom-convoy-year-in-review-1.6205324
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/21/guardian-hit-by-serious-it-incident-believed-to-be-ransomware-attack
2. If you're trying to get in or out of metropolitan Vancouver, Canada, you'll need more patience than usual:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/winter-weather-flight-cancellations-1.6693294
3. Same for Ottawa-Gatineau.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/don-t-travel-this-weekend-if-you-don-t-need-to-opp-says-1.6692802
4. Mon-Fri 9-5 may be over for many, but what's taking its place in the federal civil service may be problematic in other ways for the staff as much as for the public. Especially in Ottawa-Gatineau where we don't have mask rules back in place yet.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-departments-hybrid-directive-responses-1.6692401
5. The Convoy Siege of Ottawa continues to have consequences for a lot of people living here.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/zexi-li-freedom-convoy-year-in-review-1.6205324
École Polytechnique: We Still Remember
Dec. 6th, 2022 11:28 amGeneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
About the Shopify Problem
Nov. 25th, 2022 07:22 pmWe may have an angle on how it's gotten this bad, courtesy of a Nandini Jammi, formerly of Sleeping Giants, and still activist on her own and with Check My Ads:
https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1596271991694278656
https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1596271991694278656
I'm watching the Day 2 testimony of Catherine McKenney and Mathieu Fleury at the Public Order Emergency Commission's hearings into the Convoy Siege of Ottawa as I type this. Playing catch-up is what I'm doing.
Chilled anew at the dysfunction - accidental in places, intentional in others - that enabled this three-week siege of Centretown and Lowertown. Fleury and McKenney describe a horror and a threat that was both loud and quietly creeping. Friends of mine who live and/or work in those neighbourhoods, strangers as well, affected in an ongoing series of not-so-micro-aggressions. The theft of so many national symbols in service to a crime against the residents and workers, and a worse crime being demanded of the Senate and the Governor-General via that "Memorandum of Understanding".
We are not done with this, because the people who organized it are not done making plans to harm the rest of us. These hearings are needed, in part, for that reason.
Chilled anew at the dysfunction - accidental in places, intentional in others - that enabled this three-week siege of Centretown and Lowertown. Fleury and McKenney describe a horror and a threat that was both loud and quietly creeping. Friends of mine who live and/or work in those neighbourhoods, strangers as well, affected in an ongoing series of not-so-micro-aggressions. The theft of so many national symbols in service to a crime against the residents and workers, and a worse crime being demanded of the Senate and the Governor-General via that "Memorandum of Understanding".
We are not done with this, because the people who organized it are not done making plans to harm the rest of us. These hearings are needed, in part, for that reason.
Ottawa Siege: Emergencies Act Hearings II
Oct. 14th, 2022 08:48 pmFor anyone interested in watching:
https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/public-hearings/
You can watch in real time when hearings are in progress, or review the recordings after the fact, as you prefer...
https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/public-hearings/
You can watch in real time when hearings are in progress, or review the recordings after the fact, as you prefer...
Mapping the Ottawa Siege Relationships
Oct. 13th, 2022 07:20 pmNot my chart design, FYI.
Tracking the links of the Ottawa Siege:
https://twitter.com/cindian1/status/1580685604136030209
Does that flowchart/mind-map/??? make sense to you?
Tracking the links of the Ottawa Siege:
https://twitter.com/cindian1/status/1580685604136030209
Does that flowchart/mind-map/??? make sense to you?
Ottawa Siege: Emergencies Act Hearings I
Oct. 13th, 2022 10:58 amThose hearings have started this morning. I've got the opening remarks of several of the parties with standing going on CBC Newsworld-as-was as background sound to keep me informed as I job-search and do other online things today.
As an explainer to those just tuning in:
https://www.cpac.ca/episode?id=0a9a2f91-a1ad-4bbf-9527-63f3052cff8d
As an explainer to those just tuning in:
https://www.cpac.ca/episode?id=0a9a2f91-a1ad-4bbf-9527-63f3052cff8d
And Now Monkeypox, Right?
May. 24th, 2022 05:59 pmsiderea makes some notes about the monkeypox situation. Once again, we are likely to be Not Paranoid Enough about the things that we should be, because the organized bigots are going to start leveraging this too to restore their power over their chosen prey-groups if they haven't already. And that will likely undermine the public health measure we should already be undertaking.(Should I use "Augh!" or "Virus Don't Care" for this one?)
More Dot Connections
Apr. 3rd, 2022 04:39 pmOn the "Ru.lag" concept, revising old horrors, being made reality from Ukrainian communities into Putinist Russia:
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/31/putins-gulag-based-empire-of-abduction-deportation-and-modern-slavery/
As at home, so abroad:
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/04/putins-war-in-ukraine-outgrowth-of-his.html
David Brin on the ability to learn from mistakes on past battlefields:
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2022/04/contemplating-historical-perspectives.html
(While I worked on posting these links, I'm listening to Cross-Country Checkup, today focusing on the Papal Apology for the crimes of the Residential Schools in Canada this past week. There will be consequences to that Apology in the times to come - if the fascist movements of the modern world be successfully stopped from preventing them - and I hope they will be all to the good.)
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/31/putins-gulag-based-empire-of-abduction-deportation-and-modern-slavery/
As at home, so abroad:
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/04/putins-war-in-ukraine-outgrowth-of-his.html
David Brin on the ability to learn from mistakes on past battlefields:
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2022/04/contemplating-historical-perspectives.html
(While I worked on posting these links, I'm listening to Cross-Country Checkup, today focusing on the Papal Apology for the crimes of the Residential Schools in Canada this past week. There will be consequences to that Apology in the times to come - if the fascist movements of the modern world be successfully stopped from preventing them - and I hope they will be all to the good.)
From Ottawa and London
Apr. 2nd, 2022 03:36 pmOn the nature and preparation of the Ottawa Siege:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/police-convoy-protesters-communication-1.6405434
Carole Cadwalladr, on having faced libel trial at the High Court despite having her facts straight:
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1509612965011804162
I want a better accounting of so many things.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/police-convoy-protesters-communication-1.6405434
Carole Cadwalladr, on having faced libel trial at the High Court despite having her facts straight:
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1509612965011804162
I want a better accounting of so many things.
A Trumpist Representative has offered asylum to the Convoy Crowd, comparing Canada to Venezuela.
https://twitter.com/EvanLSolomon/status/1495168035925237761
The encampment at the baseball stadium has self-dismantled.
https://twitter.com/judyatrinh/status/1495138661888929796
Stuff that got left behind in the retreat:
https://twitter.com/melmarquis/status/1495381187963101188
As for where they've retreated to:
https://twitter.com/MonicaCYOW/status/1495397749818331138
(Yeah, Arnprior and Embrum need help now instead of Centretown and Lowertown.)
One small part of Cindy Blackstock's reaction in the moment:
https://twitter.com/cblackst/status/1495392214041743364
This is definitely an incomplete listing.
https://twitter.com/EvanLSolomon/status/1495168035925237761
The encampment at the baseball stadium has self-dismantled.
https://twitter.com/judyatrinh/status/1495138661888929796
Stuff that got left behind in the retreat:
https://twitter.com/melmarquis/status/1495381187963101188
As for where they've retreated to:
https://twitter.com/MonicaCYOW/status/1495397749818331138
(Yeah, Arnprior and Embrum need help now instead of Centretown and Lowertown.)
One small part of Cindy Blackstock's reaction in the moment:
https://twitter.com/cblackst/status/1495392214041743364
This is definitely an incomplete listing.
Air Quality and Class Action Stuff
Feb. 18th, 2022 06:38 pmEcological consequences:
https://twitter.com/JaroGiesbrecht/status/1494407970850934796
As regards the class action lawsuit in the works:
https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1494651217112449028
If you live, run a business, work(ed) inside the affected areas, you are a potential class member. At least that's my understanding of Paul Champ's statements to the news services.
https://twitter.com/JaroGiesbrecht/status/1494407970850934796
As regards the class action lawsuit in the works:
https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1494651217112449028
If you live, run a business, work(ed) inside the affected areas, you are a potential class member. At least that's my understanding of Paul Champ's statements to the news services.
