Morning. More sun. Off to Toronto. Waiting to see whether today’s U.S. tariff excuse is smoke, feelings, or the Moon. SpaceX forgot QA, moon gets a new crater. Lloyd Robertson passed. End of an era. Canada’s foreign influence registry is open. Seppies, your paperwork is due. Coffee is on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Sun’s out. Back to work for a short week. I don’t have much today. It seems PP’s still chasing the brosphere, while half the internet waits for the Mitch McConnell month at Bernie’s update. I’m a year older, wiser maybe and a little grumpier. The edits can wait. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Sunshine after days of rain. Nice, but 124 tornado warnings across Canada in July should make the climate-change ostriches look up. U.S. states want us back while the 51st-state garbage returns. Don’t. The boycott is working. Tell them why. It's the Turnip. Spend here. Local coffee. ☕🇨🇦

Men, be the Wicker Husband for your wife. Listen to her. Respect her autonomy. Support her ambitions. Share the load. Stand beside her as an equal, and call out the men who don’t.

Morning. Who ordered the rain? “Don of Dung” sold for $1,800. Hilarious. ~75% US researchers leaving; 10k PhDs gone since Turnip started. We boosted research $1.2B. Their loss, our gain. Farmers’ market: corn, peaches, plums. Corner coffee. Off to the market. Stay dry. ☕🇨🇦 eh.

Doug Ford and Minister Jill Dunlop (jill.dunlop@pc.ola.org) to establish an independent public inquiry into Ontario’s wildfire emergency response. If it was effective, an inquiry will confirm it. Ontario must learn before the next wildfire season. Where was the Ontario Corps in all of this?

First Nations leaders demand public inquiry into Ontario wildfire response

Ontario First Nations chiefs are demanding a public inquiry into the province's wildfire response, given what they called delayed evacuations, poor communication and widespread destruction of their co...

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Morning. Long weekend. B-day level up. TO today. The U.S. won’t arrest Bibi. Turnip is trying to dismantle the ICC. Birds of feather. The Fauci witch-hunt crap is hitting Canada now. Shut it down. Chapman’s choosing Canada. Buy the damn ice cream. It’s good. I choose Chapman’s. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Long weekend and birthday ahead. Weather settled, my sinuses missed the memo. Simulacrum is nearly done. Fixing quirks, not quarks. That’s next. RU kills civilians and drops a missile into Poland. Enough. Fauci witch hunt: McCarthyism by dorks. My brew. Slava Ukraini. ☕🇨🇦🇺🇦

Morning. Rain, go away. Fine. Uncle! Tim Hortons choses Harry Potter. Why? B.C. Conservatives replacing “First Nations” with colonial language is racism. Danielle flips faster than fascist pancakes, feeding seppies she claims not to support. Some things aren’t optional. Coffee, not Timmies. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Summer’s back. France noted the U.S. voted with Russia and North Korea on human rights. Washington walked out; apparently truth needs a safe space. Bill 11 is pay-to-jump-the-line medicine. Don’t cannibalize public health care. Ottawa, don’t indulge seppies. Step in. Coffee. Now. ☕🇨🇦

You don’t think the future I wrote in Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation could happen? Watch Claus Kellerman’s video. The distance between political fiction and political warning is getting uncomfortably short. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAdf...

EXPOSED: The US Plan To Destabilize Canada

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Morning. Sun, rain, repeat. Somehow, so does the need for Pride. Berlin is why. Marginalized people are still targeted for living openly. Washington showed the quieter danger: cruelty from the podium, apathy in the room. Freedom dies seated. Coffee’s bitter. Appropriate. ☕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

Morning. Rain for the weekend. Of course. The bridge is open. Cross only if necessary. Alberta’s separatist fringe has 7.5% support, a data scandal and dares to threaten Canada and Treaties 6, 7 and 8. Traitors with clipboards are traitors. I stand with Treaty Nations. 🐢 Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Family vacation outing (everyone is actually home today). Cashing in a years worth of Scene points to go see The Oddessy. Going to an actual movie theatre. It's been a while. 😆

Morning. Chill in the air, like Canada’s relationship with the U.S. Almost 80% of us think Turnip is a dork. The rest need to move. Are tariffs for smoke, “backstabbing” or imaginary labour camps? Hard to track southern fiction. Back to productive fiction. New book, August, likely. Coffee. ☕🇨🇦

Credit where it’s due. @themaplemic (on threads) has spearheaded the campaign calling for U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra to be declared persona non grata. If you want the background, campaign details, and FAQs, start here: 🇨🇦 sendpetepacking.ca

Send Pete Packing

Sign federal e-petition 3-7531 calling on the Government of Canada to declare U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra persona non grata. Sponsored by MP Elizabeth May. 500 signatures a government response - hel...

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Morning. Still chilly. I wanted holiday scorchers, but fall-adjacent weather works. Fall is my season. My watch says I slept 11 hours. Apparently it measures fiction. PP discovers gross versus net revenue, still doesn't understand. That should concern people. Back to the edit trenches. Coffee. ☕🇨🇦

Sigh. Vacation is supposed to be for relaxing, right? Apparently my brain had other plans. Book concept #15 just joined the pile. Two novels are already underway, one lands in August - Simulacrum, the next in the fall. #AuthorProblems Check out my books on my Byline: byline.pub/authors/jaso...

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Morning. Sweatshirt weather already. Lovely summer, eh? U.S., skip our bridge party you're uninvited. Then you tariffed hockey sticks. Violence it is. Does PP care? Hard to tell. Fascist pancakes? F those. Buy Canadian. Bye American. One book this summer, another this fall. 🫨 Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Morning. Woke to thunder, and Trump threatening 50% tariffs. Canada answered louder: millions choosing not to buy American. "Elbows Up" isn’t a government program. It’s us. U.S. booze and tourism know it. Grocery chains should take heed. Hooooof. Writing mad now. Bring the fucking coffee. ☕🇨🇦

LOL, I’m line editing my next book, and it’s not the prose that has me stuck. It’s a bloody chapter title. This has never happened to me before. Now I’m questioning the entire chapter. Any other authors have this happen? #authors #writing

Morning. Off this week, apparently to collect family medical appointments like Pokémon. Spain won the World Cup. Trump get the crowd’s red card, while Alberta’s seppies entered their Nacho Libre era. Fires still burn. Families remain displaced. Keep helping. Novel nearly ready. Coffee’s on. ☕🇨🇦

Not communist but 100% dictatorship.

Oh boy. The rain is here. Yeah!! But then I get this Tornado warning. @thegodshow.com could I please speak to your manager?

Morning. RAIN! Never happy to see it on a weekend, but today I love every drop. Sovereignty does come with responsibility. U.S. reps should contain the White House disaster instead of blaming Canada for the wind. Any word from PP on the fires? Nope. Climate change burns towns. Coffee is on. ☕🇨🇦

Closing out the outline for the next book… or maybe the one after that. Either way, it’s currently called Copenhagen Signal. If you want to know more, you’ll have to follow along. It’s about space… and something humanity built that’s unimaginably far away. That’s all I’m saying.

Morning. Cooler, still smoky. Please donate to the Canadian Red Cross. U.S. reps suggest we piss on the fires. Helpful. File that in last night’s recycled election conspiracy loony bin. Canada is building 190 armoured vehicles and collecting bridge tolls until we’re repaid. Stay safe. Coffee on☕🇨🇦

Morning. Smoke lingers. Fires keep taking, yet the RCAF brought stranded Americans out. Canada 🇨🇦: service without spectacle. Rath meets consequences. The Snowbirds’ Tutors take a final bow. Trump promises a “big reveal.” 🙄 Which Sam Neill films this weekend? Espresso lemonade? Coffee’s on. ☕

Morning, our burning planet. Be safe fleeing fire or breathing smoke. Americans, “Canadian smoke” isn’t the joke you think. Behind it are evacuated towns, exhausted crews and a climate crisis without borders. Trump promises “big news.” Of course. Writing, work and coffee, do what you can. ☕🇨🇦

This is the enormous fire in the Thunderbay district. Smoke will impact Northern States and most of Ontario. Photo by: Stephanie paavola. Ontario.