The Bay: Going Away
Jun. 1st, 2025 10:08 amThe Bay was a retail fixture of my life. I didn't expect to outlive the company.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hudsons-bay-8300-employees-june-1-1.7544639
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hudsons-bay-8300-employees-june-1-1.7544639
RIP: ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
petermorwood
May. 9th, 2025 10:39 amJust announced by his wife and writing partner, dianeduane:
https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/783067867808776192/peter-morwood
Diane, I am so sorry.
dianeduane:https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/783067867808776192/peter-morwood
Diane, I am so sorry.
École Polytechnique: We Still Remember
Dec. 6th, 2024 06:10 pmGeneviève 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.
RIP: Erin O'Neil
Jul. 19th, 2024 08:36 pmErin O'Neil died today.
If you were part of the Ottawa, ODSP, Disabled-Rights, CDB-support communities on Twitter, you might have known her as "veganlovebunny".
To me, she was a relatively recent acquaintance there, and her last years were a struggle that finally exhausted her. Environmental sensitivites, autism, lymphatic issues, disability "supports" that weren't doing the work of helping her, abusive fellow tenants, a landlord that wasn't paying attention except to punish her complaints.
She ended herself rather than be evicted from the housing she was barely holding onto in Manor Park.
She deserved better, a longer and kinder life. Friends who weren't so distracted by our own struggles, too.
I never got to meet her in person, and now I never will.
If you were part of the Ottawa, ODSP, Disabled-Rights, CDB-support communities on Twitter, you might have known her as "veganlovebunny".
To me, she was a relatively recent acquaintance there, and her last years were a struggle that finally exhausted her. Environmental sensitivites, autism, lymphatic issues, disability "supports" that weren't doing the work of helping her, abusive fellow tenants, a landlord that wasn't paying attention except to punish her complaints.
She ended herself rather than be evicted from the housing she was barely holding onto in Manor Park.
She deserved better, a longer and kinder life. Friends who weren't so distracted by our own struggles, too.
I never got to meet her in person, and now I never will.
Canadian Workers' Mourning Day
Apr. 28th, 2024 08:58 amBy way of explanation to non-Canadians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Mourning_(Canadian_observance)
We don't have a holiday as such for this. We do have ceremonies of observance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Mourning_(Canadian_observance)
We don't have a holiday as such for this. We do have ceremonies of observance.
École Polytechnique: We Still Remember
Dec. 6th, 2023 11:00 pmGeneviève 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.
RIP: gridlore
Oct. 25th, 2023 09:33 amI just saw the notice this morning:
https://gridlore.dreamwidth.org/2075928.html
I don't think we got to know each other very well, and it's still a loss.
https://gridlore.dreamwidth.org/2075928.html
I don't think we got to know each other very well, and it's still a loss.
RIP: John Romita Sr.
Jun. 14th, 2023 11:21 amHe was the second major Spider-Man artist. Following upon Steve Ditko himself can't have been easy.
Now he's gone.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/legendary-marvel-comics-artist-john-romita-sr-passes-at-age-93/
Now he's gone.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/legendary-marvel-comics-artist-john-romita-sr-passes-at-age-93/
Trek: An Ending for the Discovery
Mar. 2nd, 2023 07:03 pmI was thinking we might have another couple of years left.
https://ca.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-conclude-fifth-final-season
https://ca.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-conclude-fifth-final-season
RIP: Gordon Pinsent
Feb. 25th, 2023 10:51 pmSo it's finally happened.
I was kind of hoping he'd live just long enough to be in an Alpha Flight movie. I don't know which character would have been a good fit, mind you...
And for the record, I did get to meet him once, at the Magnetic North festival. I thanked him for Bob Fraser (Due South) and Duff McArdle (Power Play).
https://www.cbc.ca/1.6760868
I was kind of hoping he'd live just long enough to be in an Alpha Flight movie. I don't know which character would have been a good fit, mind you...
And for the record, I did get to meet him once, at the Magnetic North festival. I thanked him for Bob Fraser (Due South) and Duff McArdle (Power Play).
https://www.cbc.ca/1.6760868
Sad News: RIP Teletoon
Feb. 25th, 2023 07:42 pmMy animation professor at Algonquin, Gerry Paquette confirmed by sending this link to me this afternoon:
https://www.awn.com/news/canadian-channel-teletoon-shut-down
Classmates of mine worked on shows for that channel in its early years. We're going to miss it in the forms we've been used to watching it in, I think.
https://www.awn.com/news/canadian-channel-teletoon-shut-down
Classmates of mine worked on shows for that channel in its early years. We're going to miss it in the forms we've been used to watching it in, I think.
RIP: Comerford's Cigar Store
Feb. 16th, 2023 07:47 amAnd we've lost another one: Comerford's Cigar Store.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/deachman-a-victim-of-covid-and-changing-times-comerfords-closes-after-75-years
I used to visit for the newspapers, the magazines and the snacks.
Public health matters on public transit and this is another part of why.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/deachman-a-victim-of-covid-and-changing-times-comerfords-closes-after-75-years
I used to visit for the newspapers, the magazines and the snacks.
Public health matters on public transit and this is another part of why.
RIP: eftychia
Jan. 22nd, 2023 01:40 pmFor those of you learning of this from me first...I'm sorry. I just stumbled onto the news via my Reading List.
https://eftychia.dreamwidth.org/2978096.html?thread=5681456#cmt5681456
Never got to know her well, and she was part of several of the ongoing conversations of this venue, and - if memory serves - LiveJournal before that. I'm grateful nonetheless that she lived and that we got to know her at all.
https://eftychia.dreamwidth.org/2978096.html?thread=5681456#cmt5681456
Never got to know her well, and she was part of several of the ongoing conversations of this venue, and - if memory serves - LiveJournal before that. I'm grateful nonetheless that she lived and that we got to know her at all.
Doctor Who: I am going to miss...
Oct. 25th, 2022 11:22 pm...everything after this latest movie, apparently. BBC and Disney+ just announced their Big Deal for access to the series outside of the UK from now on. CTV Sci-Fi is history to them now, just as the CBC was forced by Conservative Party pressure to walk away from their relationship for Canadian broadcast rights years earlier.
I smell ideological pressure on the BBC from somewhere, of course.
I smell ideological pressure on the BBC from somewhere, of course.
...that there is still more than the one that falls on this date. This link to an earlier blog entry serves to name anew at least a half-dozen that matter to me in various ways:
https://dewline.dreamwidth.org/1559387.html
Oh, and from Elayne Riggs, who still lives in New York, a question that still stands a year later:
https://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2021/09/twenty-try-two-hundred.html
I suspect that we can both ask that question over and over, from now until the Day of Judgement, and the answer is still going to be "no". That answer won't be fair, won't be just in any way, and it's still going to be the answer we'll both keep getting.
I hope to someday be wrong in a pleasant way.
https://dewline.dreamwidth.org/1559387.html
Oh, and from Elayne Riggs, who still lives in New York, a question that still stands a year later:
https://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2021/09/twenty-try-two-hundred.html
I suspect that we can both ask that question over and over, from now until the Day of Judgement, and the answer is still going to be "no". That answer won't be fair, won't be just in any way, and it's still going to be the answer we'll both keep getting.
I hope to someday be wrong in a pleasant way.
RIP: Nichelle Nichols
Jul. 31st, 2022 04:18 pmIn memory of the first to embody the role of Nyota Uhura...
https://ca.startrek.com/news/remembering-nichelle-nichols-1932-2022
https://ca.startrek.com/news/remembering-nichelle-nichols-1932-2022
