danielhayward.bsky.social
Minister, hunchback, bobo, he/him. Disability, Christianity, politics, miscellany. Any political statements are made in my personal capacity.
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How churlish. I led prayers this morning for the Pope, and for candidates, election officials, journalists and voters in Ontario. A local journalist was there (which I didn't know) and thanked me after the service.
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That he is a bully and is thin-skinned has been backed with ample evidence during the the last week.
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We are keeners who looked up the poll location on the Elections Ontario website and then ensured we had all the ID we needed to go there without cards. Met other United Church people in line, too. But I have more flexibility to do this during the day than many workers.
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Voter information cards arriving on the second of the three days of advance voting does not seem like a way to ensure a high voter turnout (and maybe that's the intent of having such a short campaign).
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The Reich managed to invade Denmark/Norway and France/Low Countries almost simultaneously. Although they lost enough naval assets in Norway to make the invasion of Britain too risky.
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Trump is apparently quite funny in person. But the Danes thought he was joking about Greenland, and then he called the prime minister and was deadly serious.
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I'm sure that this will be sold to us as "Canadians will be able to say Merry Christmas again."
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The White House press secretary just referred to "our soon-to-be 51st state, Canada" with a big grin, which has definite vibes of Czechoslovakia in 1938.
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I have no idea what most of the candidates in my riding look like, as there are few all candidates debates, little door knocking, next to no media interviews, and their signs are buried under 40 cm of snow.
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The United States just turned on a dime from supporting to opposing Ukrainian sovereignty. We have no doubts that a neighbour which has already pledged to destroy the Canadian economy would stop there to force us to acquiesce.
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This follows the UK playbook: government depicts disabled people as lazy scroungers, government demands that disabled benefits recipients work, and then government cuts funding for programs to assist disabled people to find jobs.
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Canadians are told by our American neighbours to treat Trump's musings about a 51st state as just a "joke" or "trolling." However, countries which are not the US cannot afford not to interpret "jokes" which are repeated on a near-daily basis as indicating American intent to annex the country.
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We live on the border between two bridges to the US. It's good to have numbers to back up our visual observations of traffic. The reports from the US side are that Ontario license plates have disappeared from the now-empty parking lots of stores in what was a solid Trump county.
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I am pleased that ours, who is pretty much a lock to win again despite having to resign from Cabinet in disgrace, is busy going to events and putting up signs. And a volunteer came to our door and got a lengthy harangue from me about ODSP rates. Candidate doesn't do debates, though.
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A friend of mine who is a Mennonite minister says that when he goes to meetings he is one of the only guys there who is not named Jacob, but that's the kind of humour Mennonites themselves may like.
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I wonder what Mennonites think of it. In the Lindsay area I frequently had to stand up for the Mennonites, who were viewed with disdain by a lot of people.
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If you ever served a church in an area with Mennonite farm families, the Noah and Anita Dyck characters will never not be hilarious.
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It will be a change from red stars and hammers and sickles everywhere.
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Him and the fed-up citizens who blocked convoy reinforcements on Bank Street and forced them to turn back in the "Battle of Billings Bridge."
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Not sure how I'm going to handle the changeover from toiling for my current North Korean commissar to our new American masters.
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Recalling the last two times that the Americans were certain that we would greet them as liberators: 1775 and 1812-14. Both attempts to "liberate" Canada were completely unsuccessful.