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Amazon closing all warehouses and distribution centers in Quebec. This likely because one of the seven of them had workers who decided to become unionized and were in the process of negotiating their first contract. Now anyone in Quebec who orders Amazon will have to get trucked in from the nearest Ontario distribution center causing a lot more traffic from that location to various places across Quebec.

Trump more and more insistent on applying a 25% across the board tariff on Canadian goods going into the US. The latest update is that it could happen as soon as 1 Feb. I've been seeing news articles that this ought to jump start changes in Canada to allow for improved inter-provincial trade and to drive innovation to have more manufacturing here. Of course, the government here will put retaliatory tariffs on US imports into Canada, so some things here will become more expensive for consumers.

A saber toothed tiger and a nematode played speed chess together. The witnesses were amazed.

I had a dream this morning that I was making a really good choice. That's good. Of course, it would have been helpful if I could remember what the choice was.

The Canada Supreme Court decided to take on Quebec's Bill 21, which is a law the CAQ introduced that prohibits the wearing or religious symbols for public work jobs that face the public, so for teachers and nurses and so on. It is in essence a discriminatory xenophobic anti-Islamic law to prevent women who wear hijabs from being teachers. The CAQ is mostly propped up by rural and distant parts of the province who never see people like these Islamic women teachers, but in cities like Montreal, where I live, where the CAQ has no representation, there are a fair number and none of us Montrealais have any such prejudice (well, at least not in a majority). I hope the Supreme Court strikes down this law as a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Well, that is a short summary of what is going on at the moment.