Referring to this commentary, perfectly timed for this Orange Monday in particular:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/04/living-in-interesting-times.html

Charlie, I fully expect to remain unsafe from US law - despite living on Canadian soil as a Canadian citizen by birth and by choice and despite having no plans to visit the States - for the foreseeable future. You know about the annexation threats the Vulgarian's made in recent months. This is another of the reasons why (a) Hegseth was hired as US SecDef and (b) why Hegseth in turn fired those senior JAG officers.

If Carney remains PMoCanada after April 28th, we might stand a better chance of riding at least some of this bad craziness out. Ditto if either Singh or May gets the job. If Poilievre and his Conservatives win, we all get handed over without a fight from "Ottawa" AKA the federal government. I do not expect a lot of fellow Canadians to permit themselves to be handed over quietly in any case.

Just saying this much will draw unwanted attention to me, I'm sure.

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

I watched Justin Trudeau's speech via YouTube and skipped the Vulgarian's speech. Seems to have been wise regarding my mental health.

And there's concerns about the Rich, Sociopathic and Militant...

And this was the front page of the Globe and Mail today:



Simple, right?

I voted yesterday at Place d'Orléans Mall. The Elections Ontario riding field office is on the second floor until it's all over.

NDP, of course, in my case. I couldn't let myself vote under the influence of the idea that the outcome's predestined at either the riding level or across the province. I had to vote with hope in place.

I'm happy to note that there was a steady stream of traffic. Lots of people showing up early, and at a steady pace, too.

I am not happy. He was pressured, cornered, whatever verb that invokes the concept of coercion.

No, he has not been perfect. There are choices he made that I am unhappy with to this day.

There's still good and kind works in need of doing, though, and now those works are going to be more difficult to get done. The good works already done over these past five years, of course, are now at greater risk of being undone.

The current leadership of my own party helped make this mess inescapable. I'm not happy with that either...

Hoping for the best tonight for my American friends and acquaintances, whether you believe it of me or not.

Austerity is part of how fascism works to defeat us all.

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

So...the federal dental care programme continues to be brought into effect.

It's decades late. It's still needed. And I'm glad it's finally on its way.

The out-of-pocket costs have been dogging me ever since I aged out of my parents' work-derived medical coverage, I've never been able to hold a job long enough to get similar benefits of my own, and by this time next year, that financial-medical pain is going to finally end.

Good.

...and it feels like we should have had Gord Downie still with us to put lyrics to the occasion.

Yes, we still have Buffy Saint-Marie, Leslie Feist, K-Os, Bruce Cockburn, and so many others of like talent to do so...for the moment at least.

Congratulations to Wab Kinew and the Manitoba NDP.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/2023-manitoba-election-results-1.6985468

If anyone's wondering if I've seen him in person...there was one time in 2015:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72157658107849654