dewline: Virus Don't Care (COVID-19)
An essay by Dr. Jonathan Howard: "The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020

It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced it all from their laptops. "

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/116333-2/
dewline: Art Against Bigotry and Fascism (artists vs fascism)
The Canadian federal government should do for the Heritage Foundation what they did for the Proud Boys: designate them as a terrorist organization.

(Noting that I have been privately and rightly warned that this might backfire given the setting of precedent, depending on who forms government over the years and decades to come.)
dewline: Art Against Bigotry and Fascism (artists vs fascism)
From Carole Cadwalladr, formerly of the Guardian and Observer network, now a co-founder of The Nerve:

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-us-coup-one-year-on
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (ottawa-gatineau)
Saw an interesting thing today for the second time: an ad on the back end of an OC Transpo bus for Hanhwa Ocean's KS-III submarines. Hanhwa Ocean is one of the firms competing for contracts to build submarines for the Canadian Navy. I'd expect to see the ads in the tunnel under MacKenzie King Bridge that connects the Rideau Centre with DND HQ. Not on a bus out in the eastern suburbs of Ottawa.

Hanhwa Ad on OC Transpo Bus - 18 Dec 2025
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (ottawa-gatineau)
There's a petition making the rounds re: Ford's tendency to remote-hijack municipal governments across Ontario...

https://www.horizonottawa.ca/back_off_ford
dewline: "Worst President Ever!" in Russian (Russian politics)
Putin has organized the automation of psychological warfare.
dewline: Virus Don't Care (virus)
Yesterday, if memory serves, I added Public Health to my profile's list of interests. I consider that choice on my part long overdue.
dewline: "Truth is still real" (anti-fascism)
[personal profile] 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.
dewline: Virus Don't Care (coronavirus)
Go read this if you want cues on how to respond and you live in the States:

https://flamingsword.dreamwidth.org/496875.html
dewline: Exclamation: "Hear, Hear!" (celebration)
I mentioned privately last week that I'd been accepted for enrolment into the Canadian Dental Insurance Plan. The one that our federal government hired Sun Life to administer for everyone earning less than C$90K/year and not already covered by their employer or their province?

That one.

I finally got the card in the papermail from Sun Life today.

Orange and pink and white plastic.

It's just hitting me now that, after over three decades of paying out of pocket by instalments for my dental health basics - exams, fillings and repairs of same, that sort of thing - I no longer have to worry about that part of my life's financial juggling. It's already covered through my federal income tax from now on unless I land a sufficiently lucrative job with its own coverage.

Hoping it all works out.
dewline: Text: Workers' Rights Don't Start or End With Labour Day (labour)
Apparently, there's a mass dismissal of workers in the works this weekend.

So you might want to heed Allison Gill's advice in the link below before reading any of your office e-mail.

No joke.

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-employees
dewline: The Sustainable Development Goals "Wheel" Logo (Sustainability)
I have just signed up to delegate to the Ottawa Transit Commission about the upcoming service changes. I have next to no script for this. I am almost certain to have to do this while I'm working on my day job, and it will be over Zoom.

I have somewhat less than two days to decide whether or not to settle for a written submission instead, and if so, what to write for it.
dewline: Text: Chirp. (horror)
I am thinking that there will be consequences if that nightmare gets put into operation in the USA, and that they won't be good for Canada in any way. Not seeing any informed commentaries on the subject yet, though.
dewline: (canadian media)
This is not what I want for the future of the Public Broadcaster:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-radio-canada-layoffs-budget-1.7048530

Here and I've been listening to this year's edition of the Massey Lectures for most of the afternoon while I was working on the new day job...

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