About that "National Security Statement"?
Dec. 9th, 2025 05:27 pmLet me know if this is paywalled?
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/its-becoming-all-too-clear-how-trump-sees-canada-no-wonder-carney-cant-get-a/article_279db437-9900-44e7-8598-300441ec2db7.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/not-the-51st-state-but-a-vassal-state-what-donald-trumps-national-security-strategy-envisions/article_abe71b85-123c-4554-84b6-825d0dcb128f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/its-becoming-all-too-clear-how-trump-sees-canada-no-wonder-carney-cant-get-a/article_279db437-9900-44e7-8598-300441ec2db7.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/not-the-51st-state-but-a-vassal-state-what-donald-trumps-national-security-strategy-envisions/article_abe71b85-123c-4554-84b6-825d0dcb128f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
About My Interests Here
Oct. 23rd, 2025 09:55 amYesterday, if memory serves, I added Public Health to my profile's list of interests. I consider that choice on my part long overdue.
What To Do Next
Aug. 6th, 2025 01:03 pmRachel Maddow argues that the United States is "there" now...
I have figured out some things that I have already been doing, that I will keep doing, in order to keep the Problem from fully installing itself in Canada. Other things, I need to either stop or start doing. There are lists that others have worked up, lists I should be copying from, to that end.
Resistance to the revival of the nightmare continues in the States and in Canada, of course, with or without me.
I'm also still looking for work because until either that job is secured or I'm driven out of the workforce to whatever result, I still have to live within the existing system.
I have figured out some things that I have already been doing, that I will keep doing, in order to keep the Problem from fully installing itself in Canada. Other things, I need to either stop or start doing. There are lists that others have worked up, lists I should be copying from, to that end.
Resistance to the revival of the nightmare continues in the States and in Canada, of course, with or without me.
I'm also still looking for work because until either that job is secured or I'm driven out of the workforce to whatever result, I still have to live within the existing system.
I know there's complaints - with cause - about the management of Substack. I still follow several accounts there, and one of them belongs to former MP and continuing punk rock musician Charlie Angus.
This was today's upload:
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-riot-of-christie-pits
He uploaded a history lesson on Canadian anti-fascist resistance and how it went at a baseball game in Toronto in August 1933...
This was today's upload:
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-riot-of-christie-pits
He uploaded a history lesson on Canadian anti-fascist resistance and how it went at a baseball game in Toronto in August 1933...
"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.
Go read this if you want cues on how to respond and you live in the States:
https://flamingsword.dreamwidth.org/496875.html
https://flamingsword.dreamwidth.org/496875.html
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
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
Timothy Snyder: On Anticipatory Obedience
Oct. 26th, 2024 05:50 pmInteresting timing, in light of the behaviour of Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bezos this last couple of days...and also the fact that I just bought my copy of Prof. Snyder's On Freedom.
Big Night in Atlanta
Aug. 24th, 2023 09:12 pmI see that His Orangeness has been booked and mug-shotted.
Good.
Good.
Checking In - 28 January 2023
Jan. 28th, 2023 09:36 amListening 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.)
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.)
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.
Ottawa Siege: Emergencies Act Hearings IV
Nov. 13th, 2022 08:12 pmWatching 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.
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.
sabotabby and james_davis_nicoll - among others - have already noticed this on their own accounts.https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-28
Noting this in the opening text of the legislation:
"The Act provides for new collective agreements. The central terms for those collective agreements are set out in the Schedule. The Act requires the termination of any strike or lock-out and prohibits strikes or lock-outs during the term of the collective agreement.
The Act is declared to operate notwithstanding sections 2, 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Act will apply despite the Human Rights Code.
The Act limits the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, arbitrators and other tribunals to make certain inquiries or decisions. It also provides for there to be no causes of action or proceedings against the Crown for certain acts. Certain proceedings are deemed to have been dismissed.
The Act provides for regulations, which may be retroactive. Regulations providing for transitional matters will prevail over the Act in the event of a conflict."
Meanwhile, over at Twitter:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/twitter-to-start-layoffs-on-friday-internal-email/ar-AA13IGgO
I'm wearing purple today, because it's been noticed that Ford's developed Putinist Colour Revolution Allergies.
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 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
Truth and Reconciliation Day 2022
Sep. 30th, 2022 10:06 amThis is the second year on which the federal government of what we currently call Canada observes this occasion.
There was a long, winding skein of roads taken by millions of people to get from there to here. A lot of life and death and pain and joy, and many of the states of being in between.
I find myself still looking for paying work on this day, regardless of these truths. I feel guilt over disrespect committed by doing that.
Since I'm going to have a death some day - whether I want it or not - I want to die in a country that conducts itself better, where all the people are kinder to one another than we've been up to now. I am angered by those who consider acts of kindness to be treasonous or worse against their understanding of Canada. Against their belief of what Canada should be.
Yes, we've been horrifically unkind to one another. That's why the Residential Schools existed in the first place, to enforce cruelty in law. That's why there was slavery. Why some seek to restore the protection of law to cruelty.
No more.
There was a long, winding skein of roads taken by millions of people to get from there to here. A lot of life and death and pain and joy, and many of the states of being in between.
I find myself still looking for paying work on this day, regardless of these truths. I feel guilt over disrespect committed by doing that.
Since I'm going to have a death some day - whether I want it or not - I want to die in a country that conducts itself better, where all the people are kinder to one another than we've been up to now. I am angered by those who consider acts of kindness to be treasonous or worse against their understanding of Canada. Against their belief of what Canada should be.
Yes, we've been horrifically unkind to one another. That's why the Residential Schools existed in the first place, to enforce cruelty in law. That's why there was slavery. Why some seek to restore the protection of law to cruelty.
No more.
Organized Bigotry in Orléans? Probably.
Sep. 12th, 2022 11:01 amTwo anger-inducing things I encountered this morning while out for my walk:
1) the school board candidate profiled by AntiHate.ca as a Problematic person has her first campaign signs up, one of them at a prominent intersection near me.
2) At that intersection, I passed a person who greeted me with that now-infamous "white power" hand gesture along with more innocuous words.
Right here in Orléans, east of downtown Ottawa.
I know of the Convoy Crowd encampments at St. Brigid's in Lowertown and the Bikers' Church in Vanier. Where are they gathering here, unwatched, in Orléans? How do we make them understand that they've worn out their welcome?
1) the school board candidate profiled by AntiHate.ca as a Problematic person has her first campaign signs up, one of them at a prominent intersection near me.
2) At that intersection, I passed a person who greeted me with that now-infamous "white power" hand gesture along with more innocuous words.
Right here in Orléans, east of downtown Ottawa.
I know of the Convoy Crowd encampments at St. Brigid's in Lowertown and the Bikers' Church in Vanier. Where are they gathering here, unwatched, in Orléans? How do we make them understand that they've worn out their welcome?
Timothy Snyder on Upcoming "Referenda"
Sep. 3rd, 2022 06:37 pmDepending on where you are, you may need to fiddle with VPNs to read this.
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1560326928787202049
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1560326928787202049
