On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

The dispute between employer and workers isn't over. The workers did get ordered back to work, though, and if memory serves...the dispute has been sent to arbitration.

Subject to correction.

Just so those of you outside of Canada know: we have a postal workers' strike in progress at the moment. Apologies for my delay in telling you.

Okay, I just set up my Small Business account with Canada Post. We'll see how much usage I can make of it, I guess.

Also, three jobs applied to yesterday. One, I made a mistake with because they need people who drive. Which does not include me.

As ever, I strongly recommend this publication.

A Tor.com report on SF&F in Nairobi.

From Regina: a story about the consequences of not properly funding the details of international justice...within Canada. (No, I did not make a mistake using "international". There is at least one treaty involved here.)

David Brin asks - and is not alone in asking - when did optimism become Uncool?

Pete Evans at CBC News gets to the heart of the dispute between Canada Post Corp. and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers: the need of workers to avoid starvation in retirement. Even if Evans doesn't frame it with that language.

Also, we note Jason Kenney's quest to save Alberta from civilization. (This is not Mr. Kenney's POV about his goals, to be sure. But as Stephen Colbert once noted, reality does have a certain bias about these matters.)

Congratulations to NASA's Juno team for getting their probe into Jovian orbit yesterday. I won't call what you did "conquering" Jupiter, mind you, because of colonial-mindedness in the undertones of that. But what you did is a positive achievement!

This is indeed a Bad Idea by my lights. Not apologizing for believing that.

Ladies, gentlemen and respected others:

So, the wind chill warnings are still in effect for Ottawa-Gatineau today. I may yet go downtown for assorted errands and friendship reaffirmations, but will indeed be bundling up heavily if I do so. Seems the only sensible thing to do.

Also, continuing my revival of the practice of writing and sending letters on actual paper. One more letter went out in yesterday's post to a friend of long-standing, and I hope to get at least one more in by Saturday morning.

I started writing paper letters again this morning.

A little act of rebellion for me. It's either that or clinical depression, I suppose.

I have renewed my subscriptions to the print editions of Spacing and The Walrus. Both publications, I recommend highly to anyone reading this weblog.

I am considering other forms of constructive action to help rationalize a reversal of the service cuts.