a million little pieces are stolen from you

IDK if this petition will do anything, but here it is (for Canadians), and I've put an explainer, also. I hope there's more protests soon.

Reject Carney's Billionaire Budget.

Migrant Rights Network Response to Budget 2025.

from Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
(translated from the Russian by Stanley Kunitz & Max Hayward)

Not under foreign skies
Nor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us.


Instead of a Preface

In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me. Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue from the cold, who had, of course, never heard me called by name before. Now she started out of the torpor common to us all and asked me in a whisper (everyone whispered there):

"Can you describe this?"

And I said: "I can."

Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been her face.