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Morning. Long weekend. TO bound. New $20: King, Vimy, Indigenous plants. Toronto cleans up after a “100-year” storm. Once-a-century needs an asterisk. 👀 Snowbirds bow out at Grey Cup. Hamilton: NDP + Liberal > PC. Math. Be smarter. $4.7B VIA cars built here. Bye U.S. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦
I wrote about that in Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation. Visit my site to find out where you can pick it up.
jasonbutterfield.caPejorative: Echoes of a NationA near-future Canada is quietly annexed under the banner of continental "unity". Through a recovered archive of testimonies, smuggled documents, and corrupted broadcasts, one archivist tries to rememb...Pay attention to the language coming from the U.S. Canada is mocked. Belittled. Called weak, dishonest, ungrateful. We’re supposedly taking advantage of the U.S. Make us the enemy. Then whatever comes next becomes easier to justify. This language comes before the violence. Every fucking time.