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The last few weeks have been a tour of some of the gems Ottawa has to offer, and it makes me excited for the summer to come.
I hit up the chocolate factory in Almonte, checked out the flea market at Lansdowne before then attending a Pride-themed PWHL game, went to a sugar shack, and saw the Breakfast Club at the Bytowne. All were teeming with life.
Bill C-273, the latest effort to outlaw physical abuse of children, has died following prorogation. It had been progressing since 2021, waiting for third reading. The full text of the bill:
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An Act to amend the Criminal Code (Corinne’s Quest and the protection of children)
His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.S., c. C-46
Criminal Code
1. Section 43 of the Criminal Code is repealed.
Coming into Force
2. This Act comes into force on the 30th day after the day on which it receives royal assent.
In the 2024 American election, Republicans spent nearly $215 million dollars on ads fear mongering about the presence of trans people in society. It was their wedge issue of choice, along with manufacturing a panic around immigrants (Trump: “they’re eating the dogs… they’re eating the cats… they are eating the pets of [Springfield, Ohio].”)
Republicans won.
In Trump’s first two weeks, the White House pardoned the Trump-backed attackers of the capitol in a violent failed coup, abolished the Department of Education, imposed sanctions on the staff of the International Criminal Court, pushed to annex Canada and Greenland, among a flurry of other authoritarian moves. In the midst of it all were six executive orders to purge trans people from American society.
With the party having eliminated dissenting members, including through death threats, Republicans in the legislative and judicial branches made Trump a sovereign; no longer a check and balance, they are reduced to conduits for his whims.
Trump, the serial rapist and convicted felon supported by “pro-family” and “tough on crime” Republicans, finally became a strongman like those he has openly coveted: Hitler, Kim Jong-Un, and Putin.
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Last month, I released Océanne and Tristan Cross the Atlantic. The culmination of eighteen months worth of work, it was an hour-long satirical radio play about two French-Canadian trans people becoming the center of a new moral panic.
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This year was pretty great.