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About one-third of Canadians say they're optimistic about the new year: survey
(www.nationalobserver.com)
For 2026, I'm thinking about will Carney pass anti-privacy pro-technoligarchy online handover-identification-to-access-content laws and about the US midterms: how rigged they seem (eg, ICE-related voter suppression) will be my cue of the likelihood of 2028 election rigging and Trump (if still alive) defying another law and taking a 3rd term. I expect Ukraine/EU vs Russia/USA to renew the ongoing nature of that conflict surrounding the invasion of Ukraine. I also expect the Israeli/US/UK genocide in Gaza to stay its horrible course. I don't expect, but hope that the EU will take steps to distance themselves from US tech, versus pass favourable legislation for them. I expect the 'Canada as 51st state' rhetoric to increase a bit. I'm not optimistic and hope to be wrong. I wish people would wake up sooner that fascism is here and put up a resistance to it (beyond an enlightened minority on the Fediverse, for example). My takeaway from 2025 is this: For most of my life, people have asked "how would WE respond if fascism/ Nazism rose today?" well, we are now watching that question play out in real time, most notably involving the US regime. Hitler never had social media...