Feb 282026
Kudos to The New York Times, for alerting me in their weekly Canadian newsletter to artist Dara Vandor and her amazing (and bone-chilling) plaques like this one, straight from a nightmarish imagined future:
What can I say? It’s like something straight out of the Fallout game universe and its imagined future.
Thanks but no thanks. Je préfère rester canadien.

Nice example of social/political sarcasm :) perhaps the best respond in the given circumstances.
My friend in Italy just mentioned Etsy had stopped shipping from Europe to US some time ago, obviously due to difficulties caused by tax jongleurism etc.
Optimists counted that Trump initiated 6 or 7 war conflicts during his first year of new term. Do we really expect Canada may become target? Sounds impossible of course.