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.
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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
This might be of some interest to some of my Ontario friendlisters:
Source: Dr. Christopher Leighton - Twitter ID:![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
ccleighton
Adjunct Professor Oncology, Western Undergraduate Medicine, Healthcare & Disability Rights; living with TM/CVID; He/Him; Son toFireCMOHKMoore
https://twitter.com/ccleighton/status/1565063698967941120
Source: Dr. Christopher Leighton - Twitter ID:
Adjunct Professor Oncology, Western Undergraduate Medicine, Healthcare & Disability Rights; living with TM/CVID; He/Him; Son to
https://twitter.com/ccleighton/status/1565063698967941120
An update from "the Cookie Lady" watching the situation:
https://twitter.com/MeTheCookieLady/status/1560222845074022401
https://twitter.com/MeTheCookieLady/status/1560222845074022401
I'm hoping that this leads to good news. Best to keep watch for further developments.
https://twitter.com/a_pinsent/status/1560040938193436675
https://twitter.com/a_pinsent/status/1560040938193436675
News: the Mar-a-Lago Raid
Aug. 8th, 2022 07:38 pmI wasn't entirely sure that I'd live to see this day.
But here it is.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump/index.html
But here it is.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump/index.html
One of the things going on here in Ottawa right now is this: an activist group, Horizon Ottawa, has put together a petition to argue with City Hall and whatever other powers are able to act in favour of preventing the self-proclaimed "United People of Canada" from gaining control of the St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts building in Lowertown.
St. Brigid's used to be a church, was formally deconsecrated, and for the last decade or so has been an arts centre with a pub in the basement. Now, these "United People" - several of whose leadership have clear links to the Convoy Siege organizers, documented for the public record - want to buy up the place and turn it into a local headquarters from which - we suspect - to lay siege to Lowertown, Centretown, Sandy Hill...and the Parliamentary Precinct.
News reports and opinion columns of note on the subject:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/united-people-canada-st-brigids-lowertown-ottawa-1.6523811
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-st-brigid-s-church-united-party-of-canada-1.6540134
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2058380355875
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/group-purchasing-st-brigids-church-property-plans-space-for-all-including-those-from-freedom-movement?fbclid=IwAR0bACadubCxh7Eps9H3ykIAc4RCEziYm1o3AlbXlTJ8fi1meU_bVhuig6s
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/we-saved-a-church-in-ottawa-and-turned-it-into-an-irish-centre-1.3145309
https://www.antihate.ca/united_people_of_canadas_connections_freedom_convoy_tupoc
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2022/07/31/where-has-the-so-called-freedom-convoy-gone-dont-look-at-us-but-lets-talk-about-it-says-a-new-ottawa-group.html
Details on the petition:
https://www.horizonottawa.ca/keep_st_bridids_a_community_space
By the by: I understand that similar purchases are being attempted across what we presently call Canada by the same group. I would call that a national-scale problem.
Update 6 Aug 2022 855 PM EST: I think the "United People" organization have a flexible definition of "death threats", going by this:
https://twitter.com/HeatherMoAndCo/status/1556070425855139842
St. Brigid's used to be a church, was formally deconsecrated, and for the last decade or so has been an arts centre with a pub in the basement. Now, these "United People" - several of whose leadership have clear links to the Convoy Siege organizers, documented for the public record - want to buy up the place and turn it into a local headquarters from which - we suspect - to lay siege to Lowertown, Centretown, Sandy Hill...and the Parliamentary Precinct.
News reports and opinion columns of note on the subject:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/united-people-canada-st-brigids-lowertown-ottawa-1.6523811
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-st-brigid-s-church-united-party-of-canada-1.6540134
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2058380355875
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/group-purchasing-st-brigids-church-property-plans-space-for-all-including-those-from-freedom-movement?fbclid=IwAR0bACadubCxh7Eps9H3ykIAc4RCEziYm1o3AlbXlTJ8fi1meU_bVhuig6s
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/we-saved-a-church-in-ottawa-and-turned-it-into-an-irish-centre-1.3145309
https://www.antihate.ca/united_people_of_canadas_connections_freedom_convoy_tupoc
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2022/07/31/where-has-the-so-called-freedom-convoy-gone-dont-look-at-us-but-lets-talk-about-it-says-a-new-ottawa-group.html
Details on the petition:
https://www.horizonottawa.ca/keep_st_bridids_a_community_space
By the by: I understand that similar purchases are being attempted across what we presently call Canada by the same group. I would call that a national-scale problem.
Update 6 Aug 2022 855 PM EST: I think the "United People" organization have a flexible definition of "death threats", going by this:
https://twitter.com/HeatherMoAndCo/status/1556070425855139842
Copied from elsewhere, as I want to protect my trans friends in the States somehow:
There is a proposed revision to Title IX to explicitly protect trans students. It's real, valid 27 July 2022, and TERFs are flooding the comments with via hate networks so please go counter that with comments in support.
Here is a direct link to the revisions document, you're looking for "submit a formal comment" in green on the right side of the page.
As always, don't read the other comments, they've had their army in full mobilisation.
There is a proposed revision to Title IX to explicitly protect trans students. It's real, valid 27 July 2022, and TERFs are flooding the comments with via hate networks so please go counter that with comments in support.
Here is a direct link to the revisions document, you're looking for "submit a formal comment" in green on the right side of the page.
As always, don't read the other comments, they've had their army in full mobilisation.
As to non-American input, I'm not sure what US law says about providing that. Many of us outside the States have friends and/or family and/or co-workers to protect.
