To thine own self be true

1. The total, unmonitored, willy-nilly, chaotic influx of people crossing into Canada on foot and via car and air.

2. His (and his Health Minister and Tam) letting thousands of antibodies treatments doses rot on shelves since November, the ones used on Trump to help him recover from Covid.

3. His awareness back to 2018 (three years ago already) of the damning allegations against Vance, then giving him a promotion and a raise. (Sajjan is also totally culpable, having the same damning info back then.) His denials and lies since.

4. His recent hypocrisy espousing racism is wrong after dressing up ‘East Indian’ and ‘going blackface’ more than once. (Does no one in this country have memory anymore?)

GROT (Get Rid of Trudeau.) Totally corrupt and useless Mr. Sunny Ways.

Each one a poem. A film. A world.
That deep, that rich.

No planes should be going up and down from Canada, internationally. Should have been like this back to last year. No-brainer. But we have a no-brainer PM.

Here’s an updated version of an olde poem:

April Cyclist

The yanking nuthatch and good sun
tracking me under tall trees:
the hard crunching of stones
under tires. Bike shadows–
a moving process on
quiet morning streets.
Passing a Mandarin school’s recess:
how the world comes to Edmo.

That and above, a plane dropping
down with its Covid load brisk
to start the morning right.
It only remains now for
an ISIL guy in the bush ahead
with righteous sword to complete
this scene of Kill and don’t let live.

a comparable version of the original Fig Newtons (which Mondelez destroyed the taste of), try Superstore’s No Name Fig Bars. That’s what the old newtons used to taste like. They’re soft, contain fruit and have no off-taste; they’re tasty and quite straight-forward.

VirginiaWoolf 
Harper Lee
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
Margaret Atwood
George Eliot
Edith Wharton
Alice Munro
Willa Cather
Carson McCullers
Shirley Jackson
Daphne du Maurier
Pat Barker
Rachel Carson
Carol Shields
Patricia Highsmith
Katherine Mansfield
Miles Franklin
Joan Barfoot
Margaret Laurence
Elizabeth Smart
Judith Cape (P.K. Page)
Josephine Tey
Agatha Christie
Ethel Wilson

Took out my HP mainframe by simply clicking a link to instructions for my old treadmill. Evil afoot on the internet in the most innocuous of places. Wiped out all, breathlessly, everything.

But my fantastic IT guy has already started the rebuilding process. I do have 7 USBs of saved files over the years. My new poetry book is already printed. I have all my writing (all poems, etc.) saved including from 9 years of the main blog (though he put the blogs up and can restore them). In any cases, I have hard copies of my entries. I can still email and have all the addresses. None of the credit-card passwords were ever saved.

So, overall? Death certainly, palpably, momentarily, virtually, but the computer can be restored to functionality. None of my daily writing is lost.

(I did lose my saved audio recording, but fortunately, had committed all of these to CD, so these can be copied as need be: all my poem readings, readings with music, band work, live performances, etc.)

There is something to be said for NOT saving commercial passwords, to having copies of stuff saved elsewhere, and on hard copies that can be duplicated. And for having a reliable, wise, experienced IT guy in the family who can save whatever temporarily dead machine.

(written on an older HP Pavillion laptop; Ob-la-di….)

Update/next day: computer restored and up and running again. I’m lucky to have such a wise IT guy.

(or been to see in person.)

(sat beside and chatted with W.O. with memorable yellow snuff-stains on his shirt-front)

-Margaret Atwood x 2
-P.K. Page x 2
-Randy Bachman several times
-Bruce Cockburn several times
-Karen Connelly
-Lorna Crozier
-Northrop Frye
-Thomas King
-Norman Jewison
-Rex Murphy
-W.O. Mitchell x 2
-David Suzuki x 2
-Bill Valgardson

Some Famous People, Likewise, Been to See/Hear

(went to see him at a rare Jubilee Auditorium speaking event several years back)

-Sidney Poitier (Edmonton)
-Dalai Lama (Calgary)
-Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford (The Rifleman tv series) in Winnipeg
-Ray Bradbury (Edmonton)
-Eric Burdon (of The Animals) x 2
-Johnny Clegg (x 3)
-John Cleese
-Jane Goodall
-Wallace Shawn
-Janis Ian
-Buffy Sainte-Marie
-Mike Stern x 2
-Oliver Jones
-The Zombies x 2 (two originals)
-The Searchers x 2 (two originals)
-The Yardbirds x 2 (two originals)
-The Stampeders x 2
-Suzanne Vega
-Ray Davies (of The Kinks) x 3
-Ravi Shankar
-2 of Dave Brubeck’s sons
-Gordon Lightfoot (several times)
-Leonard Cohen
-Donovan
-Bob Dylan
-Joan Baez
-Judy Collins
-Joni Mitchell
-Kris Kristofferson
-Ian and Sylvia Tyson (several times)
-Roger Miller
-America
-Ray Charles
-Paul Anka
-Randy Newman
-The Guess Who (many times)
-BTO
-The Rolling Stones x 2
-Steppenwolf
-Paul Revere and the Raiders
-Herman’ Hermits
-The Who
-Elvis Costello
-Eric Clapton
-Bonnie Raitt
-The Bee Gees
-Sting
-The Turtles
-The Hollies x 2
-Paul McCartney
-Neil Young
-Beach Boys x 2
-Felix Cavaliere (of The Rascals)
-Billy Joel x 2
-Everly Brothers
-Chicago x 3
-John Fogerty ( of CCR)
-Three Dog Night
-Iron Butterfly
-Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
-John Mayall x 2
-Lenny Breau (many times back in Wpg.)
-Steps Ahead
-Dave Holland x 2
-Tommy Banks (read poetry with him once)
-Seals and Crofts
-Valdy
-John Sebastian (of The Lovin’ Spoonful)
-Kenny Rogers
-Charley Pride

“No Regrets about Speed of Vaccine Rollout: Trudeau”
(Edmonton Journal headline yesterday)

What irresponsibility, lack of shame, arrogance, gall, insolence, bravado, pomposity, impertinence, audacity, smart aleckness, effrontery, and flippancy.

On this count alone, Trudeau (never mind the zillion other reasons long stacked up) does not deserve to be re-elected.

With the Minneapolis police union saying that resisting arrest excuse trumps female cop shooting unarmed black guy and all the crazy defence witnesses that paraded through the Chauvin trial, you’d have to conclude that, in addition to truth, facts, logic, common sense, reason, and empirical evidence having long taken hits south of the border, that direct cause-effect no longer applies also.