When the story broke in 1995, the Toronto Star sent me to his house - he'd decamped to his condo in Florida, but the CBC found him there. One of his neighbours offered to let me set up cameras in a room that overlooked his house! He never gave any support in Canada to neo-Nazis, but I did go to his trial and some of the people in the court who seem to be there to support him definitely had pro-Nazi sympathies, verbally attacking some of the German witnesses as traitors. I sat with Professor Gunnar Boehnert , a Canadian Mennonite who spent the war years interned in Germany with his parents who were missionaries, and we heard some of the audience making some obvious anti-Semitic remarks in German.
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Red Fox Vulpes fulva fulva Renard
Little red fox, eyes were swollen yesterday, was at my front door today and looked better. Red Fox Vulpes fulva fulva Renard
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Sign of backward times
Actual sign with a quote from Maxime 'Mad Max' Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, who recently spoke at an anti-vax rally. Embarrassing.
Friday, September 17, 2021
Monday, September 13, 2021
Cicada exoskeleton
Exoskeleton of Dog-day Cicada, (Tibicen canicularis), which lives two to four years underground, climbs up a pole or tree and sheds its skin and emerges as a flying insect.
Anti-vaxxers outside hospital
There were about 200 people outside the local hospital protesting against vaccination mandates. In some places elsewhere in Canada the protestors blocked access to patients and staff. At a later protest, one person tested positive for Covid-19.
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