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of 40 million people that hate you and don't want to be administered by you would be a huge challenge no matter what. Very openly having such plans and actively teaching the citizens about peaceful resistance would also serve as a deterrent.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 9h

bureaucrats as well as all French Canadian citizens instantly forget every last word of English they know when dealing with the Occupier. it's not as crippling it would have been be before AI translation tools, but it would still be a big hassle, especially since administrating a population

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 9h

A former Qc Premier advisor a while back offered a list of suggestions to make managing Canada and the provinces by an occupying force a very costly nightmare. It included designing ahead official work-to-rule contingency plans federal bureaucrats would activate. Another was to have all bilingual

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 22h

I have plenty that can take a good frost and snow, but for a few things goodbyes will be in order Friday, from the look of things here. Pity as I see there are nights with a low of 12 the week after. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I just saw -4 C and a few cm of snow on the forecast for Montréal this week end. My tomatoes aren’t even dead yet. If anyone dare challenge us on the fact Canadian weather is absolutely bonkers…

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The World finally gets the WH Press Secretary we deserve to match and properly reflect the intellectual level and competence of the current US administration. Leavitt could delivers her daily dose of bad faith BS with aplomb. This will just showcase what a bad joke the US government has become

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The characters are all engaging, the mystery tragic and gripping, the social/historical background fascinating (if sometime horrifying), the writing sharp but atmospheric. Truly a great novel from a Tartan Noir master who just passed away and is already much missed. 📚💙⚡

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bringing back the core players of the Blackhouse and continuing their personal stories, the second novel focuses also on a 75 y.o. afflicted by dementia (his POV chapters are extremely touching) whose past suddenly becomes a mystery he can't provide anymore the answers to.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#76 read n 2026. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This one has it all. Almost as much a social novel and family drama as a crime fiction mystery this second book in the great Peter May's Lewis Trilogy is just superb. It brings to life the Outer Hebrides and its people, the stark beauty as well as the darker realities 📚💙⚡

Cover art for

The Lewis Man (The Lewis Trilogy, book 2) by Peter May, Scotland (UK), 2012 (Tartan Noir/crime fiction)

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#75 read in 2026. A mystery novella set in a book shop in Baltimore. A somewhat conventional mystery featuring the protagonist from a regular series I haven't read. It lacked a bit of a Je ne sais quoi to stand out as a novella, though her character felt like it could be fun at novel length 📚💙⚡

Cover for:

The Book Thing by Laura Lippman, 2012 (Crime fiction novella)

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#74 read in 2026. An inventive mystery novella by the Charles Todd mother-son writing duo set in 1915 England where a intriguing little box containing a miniature book passes from one owner to another in a chain of often dark and tragic circumstances. 📚💙⚡ I also love their Ian Rutledge series.

Cover for Charles Todd, The Pretty Little Box, 2018, Crime fiction novella

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hi. I'm rotating through these four: Volker Kutscher's Babylon Berlin, Peter May's The Lewis Man, Jacqueline Winspear's Pardonable Lies and Fred Anderson's Crucible of War. Next when one is done will be Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Fury or Arturo Pérez-Reverte's El Sol de Breda (Alatriste 3)

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Volker Kutscher's Babylon Berlin (Germany 2007)
Peter May's The Lewis Man (Scotland, UK, 2012)
Jacqueline Winspear's Pardonable Lies (UKi, 2005)
Fred Anderson's Crucible of War (2001)

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

among the most fervent anti-Trump in Canada.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

a negative perception of Musk in Québec and a good part of the remainder are people saying "Elon who?" That's a wholly different context than with the Alberta separatists, among whom there's a pro-US contingent you don't find in PQ, let alone in Bloc Québécois. Both party voters poll

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Another thing to know is that MAGA and Maple MAGA propaganda in French is pathetic, and therefore their reach in Québec is much lower or less damaging than in English Canada. Elon Musk's declaration for e.g. was news for about 5 min in Qc, 3 of which were spent discussing the fact close to 85% have

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One thing to know is that the Trump administration is astoundingly ignorant about Québec and its politics. None of what they say has the effect they wish.iii

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

or welcoming this. US support is like poison in Québec. Québécois see right through their games, and not only they aren't listening, but so far it has reinforced anti-US sentiments in Québec, and boosted support for Carney.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

movies they release in our theatres. Québec has seen it all over the decades, and if anything it resents the fact anglo-Canadians long refused to do more to help us in that regard. So when the USA all of a sudden is trying to meddle, the sovereigntists in Québec are far from trusting

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

protection laws to fend off US cultural and commercial imperialism, to stop them from imposing English commercial signage and branding, from their attempt to impose English as the work language in US-owned businesses in Québec all the way down to trying to skip offering a French version of

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's very important to treat Québec and Alberta separately (!) in these matters, as the two provinces are like apples and oranges when it comes to the USA. Québec has a long history of deep suspicion and misgiving about the USA and US culture. There is a whole array of language and cultural

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So far the official reactions I’ve seen are essentially disapproval and displeasure, but the G20 gets too much done in a single place, especially bilaterally on its periphery, to boycott it. They’ll go but shun him. If he decides to accept. Big if.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Shauna Lawless‘ series is excellent.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Good afternoon Womble. I'm progressing through those four. Volker Kutscher's Babylon Berlin, Jacqueline Winspear's Pardonable Lies (both excellent hist. crime fiction), Peter May's The Lewis Man (great Tartan noir in the Outer Hebrides) and little by little, Fred Anderson's massive Crucible of War

Montage of covers for:

Volker Kutscher's Babylon Berlin, Germany, 2007 (historical crime fiction)
Jacqueline Winspear's Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs #3), UK, 2005 (historical crime fiction)
Peter May's The Lewis Man (Lewis Trilogy, book 2), Scotland UK, 2012 (Noir)
Fred Anderson's Crucible of War, 2001 (History of the Seven-Years War)

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In the 40 years since I’ve never returned to translations for English. It also made me suspicious of translations for all the other languages I can’t read in… I can’t read the US translations of Arturo Pérez-Reverte for instance, or the French ones for Jo Nesbø.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In France by someone who never set foot in North America introduced and how much was adapted for the sake of European readers, New England was materially actually virtually the same as Eastern Canada. I soon found out it was even more distorted in the French translations for Stephen King.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think it’s the author in this case, though it’s often the translation. I essentially redoubled my efforts to reach fluency in English as a teen after attempting to re read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and discovering that once you remove all the distortions the translation done

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#73 read in 2026. Here's another Canadian author whose series I mean to start when my reading schedule allows. In the meantime I sampled this rather good novella where a scholar follows the trail of a disturbing personal inscription in a second-hand book and gets more truth than he can handle. 📚💙⚡

Montage of the cover art for:

Seven Years (Bibiliomysteries #6) Peter Robinson, Canada/UK, 2017, Crime fiction novella

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#72 read in 2026. A fine novella from the excellent historical crime fiction series Raven & Fisher by the Scottish duo of Chris Brookmyre and Dr Marisa Haetzman, inspired by real medical mysteries from Victorian Edinburgh. Nice little prelude to the novel Voices of the Dead.

The Spendthrift and the Swallow (Raven & Fisher #3.5), Ambrose Parry, Scotland (UK), 2023, Historical Crime Fiction novella

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And "meilleure chance mes tabanarks" too!

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How it started: Musk encourages on X three provinces to leave the Canadian federation. How it's going: PM Mark Carney declares there's no doubt Canada will separate itself from Musk's SpaceX and Starlink. 😂 (Now, please have all 🇨🇦 government accounts leave X now).

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Se séparer d'Elon Musk et ses compagnies, mettons que ce serait un référendum qui se gagnerait "coast to coast" quasiment tout seul :)

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

mais à ce moment là le conseil des ministres assurerait l'interim en commun, et ferait entériner ses décisions exécutives... par la lieutenant gouverneure Jeannotte.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Démissionné comme leader de la CAQ. Comme dit Joo elle reste PM jusqu'à ce que PSPP soit assermenté (date incertaine encore, à cause de la demande d'injonction sur le Serment). Une fois l'AN dissoute on ne peut plus changer de PM. Elle resterait PM coûte que coûte, sauf en cas de décès évidemment

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fréchette et ses ministres gèrent encore pour un mois à peu près.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Like Louise Arbour, she stands for everything the Trump administration has turned its back on. He’ll be pissed, once this gets explained to him. I don’t think there was any real chance of Mark Carney winning this year, before what he set in motion bears fruit. But… pheewww, indeed.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Interestingly they picked a woman with an impressive resume that is strikingly similar to the current Governor-General of Canada Louise Arbour’s, explicitly picked by Carney at a time when international law, the UN institution, the international courts are all under attack by hegemons.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re not "death panels", they’re Canada Geese Squads, part of Operation Tariff Relief. They‘re mostly safe to anyone not wearing red hats in swing states or falsely pretending to be Canadian while travelling abroad.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#71 read in 2026. Palate cleanser, a nice collection of short stories from the Poe & Tilly series and all featuring the trio. While that series can get as dark as it gets these three play on the more humorous sides and idiosyncrasies of the duo, on the background of the 2019 pandemic. 📚💙⚡

Cover for Cut Short (Poe & Tilly 3.5) by M.W. Craven, UK, 2020 (Crime fiction short stories collection)

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He loved the trade war well enough until now, not to mention his full support of Trump's bullying over the Gordie Howe bridge we had entirely paid for before the US reneged on the deal. We'll never forget this, but there's also no path to ever winning 🇨🇦's friendship back if Rogers gets elected.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The one thing Collins can do to help repair the relationship of Maine with its 🇨🇦 neighbours that her party broke is to lose the election to Jackson. That weasel managed to wriggle out of part of what Trump and Canada had hit Maine with, glad to see the trade war still has an impact on her campaign

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

and ways it operates by the US since 2025. So far that has failed. It came as no surprise abroad the US don’t respect its signature on the treaty anymore and no longer invites the Monitors. That was predicted months ago, got confirmed by OSCE to international media last month.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

States handle elections but are not sovereign countries. They can’t join OSCE, grant its monitors visas, guarantee their access to the whole process free of interference, their safety. OSCE is yet another international organization that’s being harassed, bullied and pressured to change its rules

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The counter culture in the ‘80s wasted no opportunity to denounce Reagan, Thatcher and even Mulroney and Kohl as fascists and scorn the mass media culture as numbing brainwashing.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More or less the whole administration. See for e.g. his "The Republican Party has a nazi problem". But the US system is no Weimar or even Russia, and they’ve proven remarkably incompetent at installing an autocracy. The dictators they admire so much must be laughing hard at how inept they are.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s because Mark Carney keeps trolling him by phone at night about secret tariffs, like the 666% tariff on platypus dairy from the state of New America, and then whispers "don’t tell anyone about those, not even Nathalie or they’ll say New America doesn’t exist and you’re losing your mind!"

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In class we paid fairly sparse attention to the British colonies beyond the campaigns fought against them, and often not enough attention to metropolitan French history beyond the colonial-related matters.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Crucible" is not *too* demanding for me as being from Québec that's rethreading what's a major period we've covered in history classes and that I've read about since, but it adds a really fascinating dimension by covering in much more detail the two Empires, the Canadiens and the First Nations.

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

for the early mornings, keep something else to read if I have bits of free time during workdays, and have something easy to read for the evenings as my concentration after supper is not what it used to be (my days of reading for 3-4h before sleep are alas gone!)

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've hit the 17% mark this morning. I can do two chapters a day unless I come across one of the very long ones. The rest of the day I don't have long enough stretches of reading time for this, or the conditions aren't there to focus enough. It's my typical pattern. I keep my more demanding reads

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D. Audy 🇨🇦 @doma-834.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hi. I'm still reading Babylon Berlin by Wolker Kutscher, The Lewis Man by Peter May and Crucible of War by Fred Anderson. I'm about to add the third Maisie Dobbs novel Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear to the rotation. Have a great week. 📚💙

Montage of covers for:

Babylon Berlin (Gereon Rath #1) by Wolker Kutscher, Germany, 2007
The Lewis Man (Lewis Trilogy, book 2) by Peter May, Scotland/UK, 2012
Crucible of War by Fred Anderson, 2001
Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs #3) by Jacqueline Winspear, UK, 2005

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