Nutty News from North

Today was a weird day, spend doing a bit of housecleaning and spending entirely too much time following coverage of the right-wing occupation of Ottawa, ostensibly by a convoy of truckers who oppose vaccine mandates  The latest development in this kerfuffle is the pausing by GoFundMe of a fundraiser which raised almost ten million dollars.

There are a couple of Twitter feeds by women who are monitoring the radio-app communications of convoy members and supporters- Noelle covering an English feed, and Jennie covering a French feed.  The feeds are a farrago of idiocy, and confessions of ill-preparedness (convoy members need blankets, shovels, and fuel- which must be transported to idling trucks in Jerry cans).  There are also expressions of fear about donations of sugar-tainted fuel (I can't tell whether or not advice to taste it are serious or not) and laxative-tainted food.  Trolls are interrupting the feed with homoerotic songs such as Ram Ranch and Welcome to the Cum Zone... I can't really endorse listening to either of these.  One troll hilariously asked for an emergency fuel delivery to Frumunda St.

Despite the comedy value of a bunch of idiots staging a moving protest during a Canadian winter, there are worrisome aspects of the occupation- a lot of the occupiers are creeps, residents of a downtown women's shelter have been traumatized, and reports of assaults and threats have necessitate the creation of a hate crimes hotline.

Thankfully, a snowstorm is bearing down on the region, which has prompted accusations of weather manipulation by the Trudeau government because, don't ya know, snow in February in Ontario is suspicious.