Episode 10 - Paradise Below Zero

//The Inevitable Omicron Wave Ranting (Less Wholesome Than Usual - Skip Ahead About 25 mins If You're Not Into Covid Stuff Right Now)//Do Things In Real Life//Canada Goose Union//Good Vibes//Calvin Rutstrum//Winter Is Fun Actually//Hobbies, Just Hobbies//SnowShoes//Childhood Christmases//Christmas Movies//etc//

Movies Discussed:

The Lion In Winter, It's A Wonderful Life, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Polar Express, Paddington 2

The Canada Goose Union Interview Jon mentions:

https://soundcloud.com/solidarity-winnipeg-sw/episode-12-canada-goose-union?si=cb156e759152489b941c6ac77fa8e818&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

More Canada Goose Union Info:

https://linktr.ee/CGWorkersUnited

Jon Reads Clearing The Plains: Chapter 3

Early Competition And The Extension Of Trade And Disease, 1740-82

Seven Years War//Emerging Canadians//Endonyms And Exonyms//Peter Fidler//Alcohol, Misinformation, Manufactured Famine And Other Innovative Business Strategies//

Episode 9 - Life Is The Curriculum

//No Full Frankenfurters//Halloween Report//Chronological November//Dune Is Good//Brain Swaddling//Flooding And Pipeline Stuff In BC//The Ends Of The Earth//New Adventures In Natural Dyeing//Colonial History And The Textile Industry//Secret History Of Colour//Getting Comfy In Your Rabbit Hole//Life Is The Curriculum//Getting Sick Thinking About Monetizing Your Hobbies//I'm Not Oppositional, You're Oppositional//Loving/Hating The Cat//Adopting A Mentor Cat//The Beatles Ruined My Life//Nobody Likes To Hang Out At A Jam//Time Team Golden Period//Saxons, Iron Age, Bronze Age > Romans//British Stealing Their Own Antiquities//Vicarious Embarrassment Through Alan Partridge//

Kanopy - Website & App. High Quality Ad Free Streaming With Your Library Card

https://www.kanopy.com

Ends Of The Earth Documentary

http://www.endsoftheearth.co.uk/ABOUT.htm

RCMP Raid Wet’suwet’en Pipeline Blockade, Arrest 15 Land Defenders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aljg-k4vLJo

The 100-year-old decision that contributed to Abbotsford, B.C., flooding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQdsRd77Gmo

Coquihalla flooding removes Othello road, Hope BC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMuZKwt6yw

Jon Reads Clearing The Plains: Chapter 2

The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation And Disease

Jon Reads Clearing The Plains: Chapter 1

Indigenous Health, Environment, And Disease Before Europeans

Questions or comments

idontwannabeasoldiermama at hotmail.com

Episode 8: Wouldst Thou Like To Live Sweetly?

cw/ chewing noises, talking with your mouth full, meal prep noises, general eating, cat nonsense, etc

Full Body Fall Experience//Building Therapeutic Rapport With The Cat/Thanksgiving//A Pumpkin You Can Wear//Kids Listen to Roky Erickson//Halloween At Church//Trick Or Treating While Old//Can You Conjure A Ghost?//Ernest Scared Stupid is Truly Horrifying//Pretending To Be A Dracula//Insurance Doesn't Cover Hell Portals//Verboten Costumes//Getting Good Candy At The Student Union Food Drive//Doing The Rocky Horror Thing//Kubrick Bro & Barry Lyndon Guy//Cat Prints In My Pizza//The Exorcist Is A Documentary//DIY Exorcism Books At The MCC Thrift Store//The Ring Ruined My Life//Lamb, The Sequel To Pig//Halloween Is About Confronting Death//Vlad's Path Of Destruction//Annie Dillard's Dad Is In Night Of The Living Dead//No Body Horror Please//

Most of the movies mentioned, in no real order:

Hocus Pocus, The Craft, Ernest Scared Stupid, Sleeping Beauty (Disney), Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Ring, Candyman, Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life, Beetlejuice, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Witch, Lamb, Pig, The Exorcist, The Haunting Of Julia, Don't Look Now, Hereditary, The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, Night Of The Living Dead, 28 Days Later, The Wicker Man, What We Do In The Shadows, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Fly, Saw, Friday The 13th, Nightmare On Elm Street, The Lost Boys, Creature From The Black Lagoon

The Haunting of Julia is called Full Circle in some other countries. And Candyman is set in Chicago, not New Orleans

Jon Reads Clearing The Plains: Introduction

Talking about the reasons why I want to read this book, a bit about the author, and some of the main ideas in the opening sections. Next episode, Chapter 1.

If you'd like to read along with me, the book is:

Clearing The Plains: Disease, Politics Of Starvation, And Loss Of Indigenous Life

by James Daschuk

Borrow a copy from a friend or the library, get it at your local used book store or new book store, or order directly from the publisher:

https://uofrpress.ca/Books/C/Clearing-the-Plains

Questions or comments

idontwannabeasoldiermama at hotmail.com

//Time To Cat//Back To School With No Ventilation//Fall Projects//Household Roles//The Sadies At Blue Note Park//Live Music Is Better Inside//Harvest Moon Festival//Bat Detectors//Roger Miller Rules//Demise Of The $40 Superstore Tent//Co-operation Makes The World Go Round//Small Town Festivals//Future Episode Ideas//Read Along With Jon? Stay Tuned...

//Thunder Bay//End Of Summer Projects//Making Tapes With Lava Rendezvous//Summer Reading Update//Going To University Is Not The Same As Learning//Being Able To Do What Works For You Makes You Happier//Being Unemployed Actually Makes You More Productive//Foraging Cats Like Mushrooms//The Pig Movie Was Not As Advertised//Getting Married For Emigration Purposes//It's Not The End Of The World To Live Without Alcohol//Fighting About Who Makes Salad//

Listen to Lava Rendezvous

https://lavarendezvous.bandcamp.com

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//Feral Jon//Jill's School Year In Review//Bill 64 Rant//Summer Plans//Camping At Adam Lake//Thumbs Down To Star Mound//The Art Of Dyeing//Tolkien's Nanny//History For Ordinary People//

Bill 64 Resources & Information:

https://www.mbschoolboards.ca/localVoices.php

https://www.facebook.com/RuralMbVoices/

https://www.protectedmb.com/resources-1

https://web2.gov.mb.ca/bills/42-3/pdf/b064.pdf (text of entirety of Bill 64)

Star Mound Info:

http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/starmound.shtml

https://www.manitobacooperator.ca/country-crossroads/celebrate-canadas-past-visit-manitobas-star-mound-school/

Farms Mentioned:

Longway Homestead

https://www.longwayhomestead.com

Ferme Fiola

https://www.fermefiolafarm.ca

Books Mentioned:

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

On Time And Water by Andri Snaer Magnason

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The First Kingdom by Max Adams

A People's History Of The World by Chris Harman