On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I remember watching news about Uranium City from my childhood and teen years. That town's spiral started while I was in high school, and I remember my father visiting there once in his job with Employment + Immigration Canada (as it was back)...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/uranium-city-nuclear-mine-1.7576768

I just out that Prof. Snyder's joined the Munk School. Here's his profile page:

https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timothy-snyder

And here's how I found out:

https://bsky.app/profile/nhannahjones.bsky.social/post/3llakwvszts2c

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.

It's underway now.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra-season-2-episode-1-dr-hunt-n1309994

First person of any non-White colour, actually...and he's an MP I met once in passing at a pro-CBC protest/advocacy walk from Gatineau across the Alexandra Bridge into Ottawa and up to Parliament Hill a few years ago: Greg Fergus. Details of today's vote here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mps-vote-new-speaker-1.6984673

I'd have thought that this would have happened years earlier, with some other Member of Parliament gaining that honour and title. That's not how history evolved, though, so here we are.

I was privileged to see him speak at an event in 2012.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72157631621214663

In the preparation for the next visit of the house repair contractors, I've again been weeding through the basement, trying to figure out what to cull from my 50+ years of life thus far. Last night, I found a hand-written letter from my paternal grandmother. I don't know how many notes I have from her, and she died of cancer back when I was still in grade school in the late 1970's. I am...recovering from reading this small note about my life at school.

I didn't know that And Sometimes Y was being brought back out of the CBC Archives as a podcast series!

https://web.archive.org/web/20120321085750/http://www.cbc.ca/andsometimesy/

I'd forgotten this bit of Canadian history, and it took my Mastodon account feeds to remind me:

https://canadaehx.com/2022/08/12/jeanne-sauve/