Author: laura

Short work week, life goes better. Go Habs!. Fuck Rebel News and their instigations. Manitoba redirects the juice. In life: No major financial hits this week! Got a lot of work-work done including debugging a knotty Python script. There’s been some sunshine. It’s light out till after 8pm. I have had multiple pain-free days. It’s…

It’s been a busy week, as usual. I almost didn’t write an update because tbh I’ve been spending too much time on this. I’m more caught up on work-work at the jobby-job my stress levels are lowering. My main work project right now is migrating Scholarship@Western to Scholaris. The operations for porting content and metadata…

Canada ready to take leadership on the world stage. Immediate impact of auto tariff. Gretzky going down. In politics: The worldwide tariff war escalated as the U.S. takes it’s bullying across the globe. Canada wasn’t implicated. This time. We have our own special fight. We’re experiencing the 25% tariff in the auto industry. The automakers…

The campaign season begins with ads, rallies, and PCC dropping in the polls as Canadians reject Pollievre’s Trump-lite. The nation loses a symbol of colonization. We deal with another round of tariff madness. In politics and culture: Hudson’s Bay closes most of its stores Canada’s oldest company is liquidating most of its retail arm. Chartered…

Trump extends silencing threats towards our researchers , boycotts continue, climate action vandalism, cross border travel slows, and arctic preparedness grows, federal election to be called In defence: Canada is growing our Arctic military presence. IMHO it’s going to take too long to get more permanent footing there given the threat. This stuff takes time…