On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

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.

So Prof. Snyder wrote a thing a few days ago...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike-december

So I'm looking at Justin Trudeau's trip to visit the Vulgarian this past weekend in that light. Yes, I've read of the reports that the Vulgarian "suggested" that Trudeau become a governor of one of several newly-annexed states. I don't think that Trudeau's interested. Neither am I.

If it were AOC or Jamie Raskin making the "suggestion", I'd consider it more seriously and less nervously. Depending on the terms, it might actually be tempting.

Scott Moe still has his job, I'm sad to note.

Yes, the Saskatchewan NDP still improved their standings in the polls and the legislature...

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

Wow.



If the YouTube link doesn't work, here's a CBC News report for context.

Listening to this right now:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/george-grant-lament-for-a-nation-1.7050666

I should look that book up, and also re-read Michael Byers' Intent For a Nation: What is Canada For? That one, I do have a copy of at hand.

...to advocate for extra municipal funding for mental health support programmes this morning. I've printed out three drafts of my "deputation" - city hall slang for a speech expected to last no more than five minutes - and am not sure that I'm properly set up for this.

I am, of course, terrified of being reinfected by COVID-19 by way of public transit. Not that I have any realistic alternatives to that to resort to right now for various reasons and excuses.

I haven't visited the downtown core of Ottawa-Gatineau in over a year. There have surely been additional changes to the neighbourhood that I don't know to expect.

Likud and Hamas are mutual enablers.

Israel and Palestine alike deserve much better than they're getting right now, on top of both peoples having the right to exist.

Leaving it at that.

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

Good.

Offering this link because I tend to trust this guy, even when I disagree with him.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/naheed-nenshi-if-you-re-hyper-partisan-you-may-not-want-to-read-this-column-1.6413376