On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

All 34 counts.

Blessed and prosperous be the jury.

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

Geneviève 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.

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.

Not 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?

siderea 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?)

On 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.)

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.

And if you're Canadian? Now that the Emergencies Act has been invoked?

Expect some trouble.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottawa-protests-1.6353968

https://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2022/2022-02-15-x1/html/sor-dors22-eng.html

This is not the kind of thing we want to do very often if we have to do it at all, and everyone needs banking services whether we want them or not. So something will have to be done to make sure that anyone caught and convicted can resume doing lawful business without being subject to extortionate penalties that might further radicalise them, yes...