The election continues, and Liberals are losing ground to the CPC on the right and the NDP on the left. Trudeau’s Liberals are still in minority government territory on the seat count, but between the unpopular election call and the absolute shambles of his handling of the Afghanistan evacuation, they’ve lost a lot of traction on the popular vote. It’s starting to look like Trudeau has made an historic mistake calling this election. (Not that I want a Conservative victory; the last thing we need during a global pandemic is a return to “austerity” economics. But that’s not what I want to write this post about.)
I want to write about the “protesters” screaming obscenities at Justin Trudeau’s campaign stops.
Month: August 2021
Another Damn Election
It’s 2021 and Canada is having an election. Again. For the third time in six years. In the middle of a global pandemic.
So yeah, I guess I’m writing about that this week.
Never mind that the world is literally on fire. Never mind that fascist terrorists are shooting up American cities and their Canadian wannabes are saying “get us some of that.” The total count of unmarked graves at former Residential schools is approaching 6,000. Never mind that schools are opening in two weeks and the delta variant is going to kill and cripple a lot of kids and as far as I can tell there’s not a single level of government in this country with a better plan than “Meh.”
Yeah, another election only twenty-three months after the last one is exactly the best way for our elected officials to be spending this September.
On Pain
Pain sucks.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past year, it’s that being in constant pain absolutely sucks.
It’s not an original thought, I know, but there it is.
What should have been a minor soft-tissue inflammation issue turned into a year-long medical saga which has been vastly complicated by the COVID pandemic.