Blog Jam

 With our prime minister Carney looking towards helping with the "Golden Dome" costs, the gangster in the White House is planning his "doming" of North America. I am disgusted with this capitulation - as capitulation it is.

I fired off this email to our PM just now:

Please stop the nonsense with the Golden Dome. The gangster-fascist in the white house will demand more and more from Canada.  And you are going to allow him to surveil the owners of this country - Canadian Citizens? I elected you to defend Canada not to concede our sovereign rights to this Mafia Boss.

Please STOP. We all know he can't be trusted with our wallets, our children, or our sovereignty.

I feel a bit better and am joining a lot more in defending our sovereign country from this latest fiasco from what used to be the republic south of us.

Along with many other countries we now have wildfires burning out of control near where I live. The skies blur out, the sun blazes on.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-fire-aug-11-1.7605635

No rain for a couple of week and none forecasted until maybe Wednesday. Wells are running dry in many parts. Huge fines are put in place for outdoor fires of any kind or even walking through a forest. Naturally the same crowd of anti-maskers are now outraged about their "liberties". My question always is: please tell me how to tell the bad guys from the good guys?

The book I read a few years back is proving remarkably prescient.

On a lighter note:

I saw this wee bunch of common, ordinary clover under my feet the other day and it lit a tiny flame of hope in my heart for some reason.

And I just finished this incredible book of essays by one of my favourite writers of all time.  "My Three Fathers" is a great read along with so many other essays. She pulls you right into her life with tears and laughter.

Bravery

We're all so terribly brave, aren't we?

Like we have no idea where we're all going and we march on. Or stumble. Or fumble. There is no light at the end of this particular tunnel. At least not yet. And I hope fervently that we will not repeat The Great Flu of 1918 where millions upon millions died and it appears that many do not learn from the protocols they put in place even then, over 100 years ago. Contagion is contagion is contagion.

The toll on fire and emergency services on the western seaboard of the US to counteract this cataclysmic burning must take a huge toll along with the risk of Covid to all concerned. Bravery indeed.


I'm avoiding the US news as if it were another form of plague on the landscape but sometimes it is unavoidable. A horror of a genocide with nearly 250,000 citizens now dead. My friends who live there and also hold Canadian citizenship have made arrangements to move back to Canada in November. Constant sunshine for them has a high price. And then the fires. Flames and pestilence at the same time. It crushes the brain. This was yesterday's Covid statistics for the top countries cases on the planet. With the US staggeringly ahead.

Here we are catching (in isolation) each case as it lands and thus preventing community spread. The 4 Atlantic provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland & Labrador) are in the same bubble, with provincial border checks for those coming in from outside these provinces.

St. Pierre and Miquelon, tiny islands off the coast of Newfoundland which is French territory, is not faring so well. 11 cases in their tiny population of 6,000.

The rest of Canada isn't faring so well at the moment.

We're all tapping into our depleting stockpiles of bravery these days. Even if it's just shutting our eyes and going wah-wah and not contemplating a future that has no shape whatsoever.

Wildfires

The smoke from the wildfires in BC and California (the Pacific ocean) has spread across Canada to our island of Newfoundland (the Atlantic ocean), affecting our weather.

Here's a map of the BC fires.

Here's a map of Canada

We are over 7,000 km away from these fires (see distance from Vancouver on our west coast to St. John's on the east coast).

That's over 4,350 miles.

We have entered the zone of the 4 Cs = Constant Chaos of Climate Change.