Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca)

"Mark Carney presented himself as a principled adversary to Donald Trump, a steward of Canadian sovereignty who would stand up to a dangerous and unpredictable United States. And now, just months into his premiership, he insists “the G7 is nothing without U.S. leadership,” his government has resisted retaliating against American tariffs, and has even expressed desire to join Trump’s Golden Dome missile defence program."

#AnthonyKoch

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/anthony-koch-at-g7-carney-has-his-elbows-way-down-for-trump

#CanPol #cdnpoli
#NationalPost

@evan Watching the Trump circus has made me more grateful that I live in a country with a head of state outside of politics.

@evan Perhaps you've forgotten the 1995 referendum campaign? The 1998 Québec election in which the Liberals won more votes than the PQ, setting the stage for Lucien Bouchard's resignation? The defeat of the PQ in 2003? I think his premiership was fairly successful as well.

As to the fundraising, it's hard to say what the truth of the matter was. Certainly nothing was proven about Mr. Charest himself, despite the investigations.

#polqc

@evan Jean Charest, to name a local politician, resigned from the federal cabinet after he had contacted a judge about a constituent's case. Eventually he returned to cabinet, and his political career continued with a reasonable record of achievement.

Many such cases; WSC also comes to mind.

It's good for politicians to resign when they are responsible for a grave error. We want to encourage such choices. But it needn't be the end.

#politics

@evan

@evan King-in-Parliament.

(But I answered "Legislative", which is about right.)

#WestminsterSystem

"The great gain [of reading] was that I very soon became able to understand a great deal without (even mentally) translating it; I was beginning to think in Greek.

That is the real Rubicon to cross in learning any language. Those in whom the Greek word lives only while they are hunting for it in the lexicon, and who then substitute the English word for it, are not reading Greek at all; they are only solving a puzzle."

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@evan Weekly. Sometimes I have questions that an LLM does better at answering than a search engine — but the answers need a bit of checking. I find LLMs useful but not reliable.

(But I wouldn't use one for my engineering: it's too easy to make something that looks correct on the surface, but without any real understanding of what the equations mean, it's likely to be full of subtle errors.)

Vive le roi !

#CharlesIII

"The omens are encouraging. During his Mass for the cardinals, Leo XIV produced the outline of an unambiguously Catholic manifesto in language of startling clarity."

"For one thing, the new Pope clearly loves Latin. On Sunday he led a crowd of 100,000 in St Peter’s Square in the Regina Caeli, a 12th-century antiphon to the Blessed Virgin."

#DamianThompson

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/leo-xivs-papacy-is-off-to-a-surprisingly-promising-start

#latin
#LeoXIV #Catholic #Church
#TheSpectator

@PatrickoftheG Prayers, liturgies and readings in the vernacular are best for Catholics in general: it would be good for us all to read the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, but alas that's not feasible for most of us.

The prime virtue of Latin is not that it's authentic to the Saviour (who would have mostly spoken Aramaic), but that it's universal across space and time for the Roman Catholic Church. Pre-1964, all Catholics could readily pray and sing together.

#Latin

@PatrickoftheG
Here's a psalm sung in Aramaic: https://youtu.be/961ihcx4PoQ?feature=shared

I'll confess to being fond of Latin as a language, but I think that's mostly personal taste, and thus not really much of an argument in its favour. Maybe if I'd dedicated more time to Greek I'd prefer that...

@janneke Out of curiosity, how's the #Hurd doing on #Guix these days?

I look at the Guix lists from time to time, but I don't think I've seen anything about the Hurd since https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/ from November.

@evan Yes, but. It's reasonable to start there, but not really the best place to stay for most people.

@evan I'd be delighted to see more businesses with accounts on the Fediverse.

There's an old joke: Poor Canada! She was supposed to have French culture, British government and American can-do; instead she got American culture, French government and British can-do.

I still aim at the first three.

See also this table of verified media accounts on the #Fediverse: https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html prepared by @mho

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Canadian journalism organisations on the Fediverse, cont'd:

* @cultmtl
* @DailyHive
* @cbcnews
* @globeandmail
* @langleyunion
* @pgdailynews
* @GlobalNews
* @CTVNews
* @TheHillTimes
* @ChatelaineMag
* @MONTECRISTO_mag
* @cfjc_today
* @yukon-BlackPressMedia
* @calgaryherald
* @NationalPost

(I haven't listed all those available from #Flipboard.)

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Journalistic organisations in Canada with official accounts on the #Fediverse :

* @winnipegfreepress
* @thetyee
* @Windspeaker
* @sprawlcalgary
* @livewirecalgary
* @pressprogress
* @thenarwhal
* TechNews @admin
* @HalifaxExaminer
* @thelocal
* @RueMorin
* @cabinradio
* @mtlgazette
* @NTVNewsNL
* @hakaimagazine
* @rewildingmag
* @NatObserver
* @TheBreach
* @theagendatvo
* @TVOntario
* @epicnews
* @chly1017fm
* @CKIAFM

I will update the list as I learn of other such accounts.

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@ntnsndr What do you mean by "an enemy of (real) antisemitism"? I know about Rerum Novarum, but I don't know what Leo XIII had to say about Jews or Judaism.