Nine people drowned trying to cross the St. Lawrence in 2023 near Cornwall. I went to an interesting presentation at Cline House in Cornwall on the weekend - Abraham Francis, a scientist from Akwesasne was on the panel discussion, along with Victoria E. Ransom, Christine Fitzgerald, Jérôme Marty and Stephany Hildebrand and Francis talked about how the cutbacks Trump was making to NOAA could cause them to lose vital data on climate change, and encouraged us to vote in the federal elections on April 28, because changes in policies can affect our lives. He said when Trudeau and Biden signed an agreement a few days before the deaths to allow the deportation of refugee claimants to the first country they passed through and one of the families that died were trying to get across the border before that policy came into effect. Francis was friends with Casey Oakes, who was said to be the pilot of the boat that capsized, causing him and the passengers to drown.
I wondered why I couldn't get the same schedule or agenda view of my Google calendar on my android phone that I had on my PC desktop. Then I found I only had Samsung Calendar on my new phone and I had to install Google Calendar on it.
CAPE Cornwall & Area Pop Event, at the Benson Centre, 800 Seventh St W, Cornwall, Ontario, April 27, 2025
There's a gruesome illustration circulating on Facebook of a woman impaled on a stake being carried by some soldiers in 17th century kit with a caption claiming that the Emperor Charlemagne ordered this for women "...simply because a woman was found collecting herbs in the forest. She was labelled a witch."
In point of fact, Charlemagne passed a law in the Council of Paderborn of 785 prohibiting the execution of witches, under the penalty of death, something that the pagan Saxons he was fighting against were still doing.
The illustration, a cropped version of which is shown below, really comes from page 345 of a book written in England in 1658 by Sir Samuel Morland called "The history of the Evangelical churches of the valleys of Piemont : containing a most exact geographical description of the place, and a faithfull account of the doctrine, life, and persecutions of the ancient inhabitants ; Together, with a most naked and punctual relation of the late bloudy massacre, 1655.."
The incident depicted was part of the Piedmontese Easter massacre of Protestants in what is today northern Italy in 1655. The accompanying text reads: "Anna, Daughter to Giovanni Charboniere of La Torre, had a long Stake thruft into her Privities, by fome of the Souldiers, who in a barbarous way carried her upon their fhoulders in manner of an Enfign, till they had wearied thermfelves, each man in his turn, arid then they ftuck the other end down into the ground and fo left her hanging in the ayr upon the Stakes end, as a moft formidable and horrid fpectacle to all that passed by that way."
The book was published during the anti-Catholic Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell, and the events described may have been exaggerated
Article with the uncropped image: The Waldensians’ massacre, 1655
Sightings: Rewritten to claim that Charlemagne was doing this to Hindus who were practicing Ayurvedic medicine.....
The Viking Octantis just went past going upriver to Toronto - from the Viking website it looks like it has no passengers but will start a cruise from Toronto through the Great Lakes finishing at Silver Islet, the submerged former silver mine, near Thunder Bay.
Just going to the hardware store - huge SUV with California plates and something weird mounted on the roof. It looked like the camera Google uses in its Street View but only with a small pod. Had to ask - the passenger explained that it was to see how the local air conditions would affect drag. Their company, which makes fins that break up the vortex that forms at the back of a truck increasing air drag, is called Drag Fin .
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