Dammit, Donnie.

You and the rest of your gang...just cannot leave well enough alone, can you?

He said today that the tariffs would start on the 1st of February.

The day after the foreign election interference report is released by the federal government here in Canada, right?

1. Trump on testing in general?

https://alexandraerin.substack.com/p/testing-trump

2. Criminalisation of climate activism:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/how-criminalisation-is-being-used-to-silence-climate-activists-across-the-world

3. The trial of Barber and Lich re: the Ottawa Siege continues.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/freedom-convoy-made-it-near-impossible-to-live-zexi-li-tells-trial-1.6997367

4. Conservatives targeting the CBC again, more of that "War on Expertise" that David Brin warns us about...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-cbc-terrorist-language-guide-policy-1.6997926

I see that His Orangeness has been booked and mug-shotted.

Good.

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.)

Watching Hour 5, Day 5, of the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings into the invocation of the Emergencies Act against the Convoy Crowd's actions back in February 2022. Diane Deans, who was on Ottawa City Council and chairing the local Police Services Board up until the halfway point of the Ottawa Siege - just after Peter Sloly stepped down as chief of police - is in mid-testimony as I watch.

It's been Interesting to watch and listen to. Several ways, and I'm not sure how to even begin to describe the hows and whys of that.

Got the Labour Day Classic - Canadian Football League match between Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers being played in Regina - on the TV for background noise. I've been a Riders fan almost since I started walking, because of my upbringing.

Meanwhile, there's a three-province police search underway for two suspects in a case of multiple-homicide - 10 dead, 15 injured - that started in a First Nation and a neighbouring settler-founded community a ways north of Saskatoon. The crimes and the search they've triggered have made the news as far away from Saskatchewan as the UK (The Guardian), Germany (DW News), and Australia (ABC News) by now.

There is a severe dissonance here when I look at these two things together in the same posting...

I heard the news about the leak from SCotUS to Politico.

Don't tell me this doesn't go right from womens' rights now to slavery revived later, because we know there are people who do want to take things exactly that far.

Well, this was a first: a spam call that was from Shanghai directed to my cell phone. As in "my cell phone call display is telling me the number's from Shanghai".

Should I post it? Would it matter?

On 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.