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Trump is being arraigned in Florida today for roughly three dozen counts of mishandling classified documents and obstructing the retrieval of said documents from his Florida resort home.

It is a Federal Court that is managing this, though, with a seemingly Trump favouring Judge. It has been said that he could run for and even be elected as President from prison and that if he was elected, he'd have to be extracted from prison to run the country. I am guessing he would go back into prison after his presidential term is over.

Of course I am hoping that if he is in prison, that will allow his republican opponents more media attention to hopefully raise their likelihood of winning that nomination.

Living in Canada this all has very little to do with me, of course.

Here in Canada a man named David Johnston stepped down as special rapporteur; he had planned on holding a Public Hearing into the matters of Foreign interference in elections in Canada. Opposition leaders were against him, as he had ties to the Trudeau family, and what he wanted (a Public Hearing), and instead were pushing for a Public Inquiry. Now it is up in the air as to what happens next.

Provincially, the forest fire situation is beginning to get better as more rain (though not enough) is falling in the areas where the fires are, among other areas. There are also some contentious laws that have either just become law or are close to becoming law. There is a strengthening of the French Languages act both Federally and Provincially that puts in question the rights of an English minority in Quebec. And there is a new Landlord / Tenant law coming in that has both groups dissatisfied with what is planned. Landlords having to appear at the tribunal if the tenant doesn't agree to an eviction, and tenants no longer able to sublease which had been used previously to keep a low rent low by not following a proper change of tenant path.

Locally, summer is approaching with the F1 race happening this weekend, with the Jazz Festival around the corner, and then the National Bank Open in August. This year the men play in Toronto and the women play here. There is a homeless group of about 50 people that have been living underneath the Ville-Marie Expressway for years and they have become a community. However, the expressway itself is in need of repairs and Transport Quebec has been pushing to have these people move or be relocated for months. In court motions this has been delayed numerous times, however, it appears that June 15th is the last day they are to be there.

Personally I came across an ad on my mobile device for ePlancul about a month ago, a matching site for people who want more than friendship. It was free to join, however, it costs tokens to send messages, and tokens cost money. I was surprised that after having created my profile (which was free to do) I immediately had some women approach me through the site. Not knowing how any one of them would work out, there are now four that I have chatted with regularly, with a fifth in Saguenay that I started chatting with since I am going there on vacation in July. The cost of the tokens has been significant, so I have given the four local ones a deadline (the bomb I dropped recently) to actually meet in person within this month. I said that if that meeting doesn't happen, I will be compelled to abandon them. I can't keep paying for tokens, especially if we could be chatting through SMS for free. So far none have picked a date/time, but there are still 17 days left in the month.