On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

A hero of sorts, and not through violence. Rather, by surviving violence and telling his own stories and sharing those of others who also survived.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/murray-sinclair-death-1.7372862

Respect to his memory.

1. David Chase fears that the end of long-form TV has arrived. I'd like him to be able to celebrate being wrong.

2. Peter Capaldi wants to make sure that entertainment talent from the lower classes remains discoverable and supported. He's absolutely right about that.

3. I got through the latest storm okay. Just so you know.

4. A lot of people miss Ed Broadbent.

5. Looks like a propagandist for Reichsters had a hand in Claudine Gay's problems at Harvard.

Listening to this as I type right now:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/living-deliberately-university-pennsylvania-tapestry-1.6988112

This 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.

I did wash out on the French test this morning.

Frankly, it was and still is the responsible thing for this particular employer to do, and - more importantly - the kind thing to do. Hospitals in the National Capital Region on either side of the Québec-Ontario border absolutely need fluently bilingual people filling their public-facing job categories.

Eventually, you'd ideally want to have everyone on such a payroll to have at least one additional language on their resumé, too, since we are both a national capital region - with the international traffic you'd expect because of embassies, consulates, legations, etc., as well as respecting our treaty duties to our Indigenous relations. Around Ottawa, that would imply a need for Anishnaabemowin, the Haudenosonee languages, some people with Inuktut fluency as well because of the back-and-forth medical traffic between Ottawa and Iqaluit.

I have no regrets about this, except that I have neglected keeping up my French-language skills since moving here from Saskatchewan. That's my mistake to own.

Back to watching videos on Clip Studio Paint, font design via Typewknd, and other chores tonight...

To those of you observing the occasion, Ramadan mubarak!

Listening to this on the radio at the moment. Because history hasn't ended yet. We're all still making history and living it, moment by moment.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-past-is-present-why-challenging-traditional-narratives-about-history-is-necessary-1.5969819

Listening to this one at the moment:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/our-futurecestors-deserve-a-voice-in-today-s-decisions-says-author-1.5710902

Noting this again...

https://www.themarysue.com/abigail-disney-calls-out-the-corporate-greed-of-the-walt-disney-company/

https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1252665806334410752

Noting that some of you are commemorating this day for that reason. Some of you doing so may feel celebratory about this anniversary, others not so much. But in any case, I'm glad you're all here.