Kevin Kindle

Author of the popular Aliens and Cowboys series and other sci-fi and fantasy stories. #eroticawriter #NSFW #eroticaauthor #fantasyerotica #indieauthor

[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

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[Shane Wenzel @ShaneWenzel]

Make no mistake: what Jack Layton spent his life building, a practical, common-sense party for working people, is anything but what this current NDP represents. Today, it’s a fringe festival prioritizing social experiments, red tape, and radical ideologies over the needs of everyday Canadians.

If Layton were here to see colour-coded equity cards deciding who speaks while the party faces a $13 million debt, he wouldn't just be rolling in his grave; he’d be leading the charge to reclaim the movement from these self-serving bureaucrats. The NDP has traded hard hats for virtue signalling, widening the "Hope Gap" for families who can’t afford to gamble on ideology.

Bottom line: The end of this era wasn’t instant. It’s been a step-by-step abandonment of basic principles. Political parties survive by serving their voters, not by lecturing them. It's time to stop the nonsense and return to basics.

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

To Mark Carney & Those Applauding Him:

I am a Canadian paying for a country that doesn’t include me.

I live in the part of the country your map forgets.
About 2,600 kilometres from the nearest stop on your proposed $90 billion train.

I am an overtaxed, under-served Canadian.

I heat my home with rising costs.
I fill my vehicle at almost $2 a litre, depending on the day and my luck.
I watch a country with 163 billion barrels of oil behave like it’s on a meagre allowance.

And you want me to pay for a train I will never use.

How thoughtful.

I am a hard-working, falling-behind Canadian funding infrastructure I will never touch.

It runs roughly 800 to 900 kilometres, depending on how creatively it detours around reality, from Toronto to Quebec City.

Seven stops.
All neatly contained within Ontario and Quebec.
Top speed, 300 km/h.
National reach? Let’s just call it selective.

I am a Canadian treated like a revenue stream, invited only by invoice.
Roughly $90 billion. About $8,000 per household.
For a ticket I will never hold.

From where I sit in Saskatchewan, your high-speed rail corridor might as well be interstellar travel.
Two thousand plus kilometres away circling the station, and still billing me.

I am a Canadian bereft of a stop on this train.
Close enough to fund it. Far enough to never use it.

I am an overextended, nickel-and-dimed Canadian.

I am fixing my own road access.
Paying more for groceries.
Driving farther for basic services.
And now funding new infrastructure for people who already have airports, highways, and existing rail.

At this point, I would settle for a train that delivers affordable groceries.
No need for 300 km/h. Just cost-saving reliability.

I am a Canadian squeezed by government-made inflation, where every errand costs more than it did last week and every explanation from you sounds rehearsed.

I am a Canadian quietly recalculating the future, trying not to downgrade my retirement to a leaky camper on wheels, while the country accumulates debt it cannot repay and prints money to pretend it can.

I am a rural Canadian watching how this works.
Not on my land. Not this time.
But close enough to understand the mechanism.

Because an 800 plus kilometre corridor does not meander politely.
It cuts. Straight. Fast. With purpose.
Through farmland. Through properties. Through communities.

I am a watchful Canadian taking note of precedent.
Survey stakes. Expropriation powers. “Public interest” to be explained after.

It is not my yard today.
But it is someone’s.
And tomorrow, it will be called "necessary" for something larger.
Something urgent. Something climate-related. Something that cannot wait.

I am a wary Canadian noticing how easily "necessity" is declared to match your agenda.
And how quickly my rights become flexible once it is declared.

I am an observant Canadian with a long memory for names.
And somehow, the same SNC-Lavalin lineage Canadians were told to forget is back, rebranded as AtkinsRéalis, positioning itself for one of the largest public contracts in Canadian history.

A remarkable comeback. Truly.
No apology tour. Just a new logo and a larger taxpayer subsidized opportunity.
Seems history doesn’t repeat. It follows a predictable pattern.

I am an unimpressed Canadian watching familiar #Lavscam players return under reimagined branding.
The script is the same. Only the cover has changed.

I am an exasperated Canadian you included in your sales pitch.
I am told it will create 50,000 jobs.
I am told it will add $35 billion to GDP.

And I am sure it will.

In the corridor.
Where the stations are.
Where the density is.
Where the benefit is.

I am a shunned Canadian excluded from the outcome.
Included in all the arithmetic. Excluded from all the access.

I am a cynical Canadian being told this is nation-building. Though the nation appears to exist along a very specific set of coordinates.

I am the depleted Canadian who:

Reads grocery receipts like an audit.
Choreographs fuel stops around paydays not plans.
Measures distance in cost, not kilometres.

I am an overburdened, last-in-line Canadian.
Essential when it is time to pay. Optional when it is time to benefit.

I am an impoverished Canadian whose citizenship now resembles a pre-authorized debit agreement.
The withdrawals are national. The benefits are regional.

I am an exhausted, overlooked Canadian.

You’re not building this for me or my family.
You're just sending me the bill.

Signed,

Your most reluctantly reliable revenue stream,
Melanie in Saskatchewan

[Shane Wenzel @ShaneWenzel]

Is it just me, or is the ground under our feet feeling a little more "shaky" than usual lately?

I’ve been looking into some of the recent data on Western alienation, and it’s a massive wake-up call. For a long time, the conversation around national unity always centered on Quebec. But the numbers coming out now suggest that the push for Western autonomy might actually be a more complex hurdle for the country to clear.

The news just hit that organizers for the Stay Free Alberta independence petition claim to have officially crossed the 177,000-signature threshold. If verified by Elections Alberta, this could trigger a province-wide referendum on the ballot as early as this October. It's a move that moves the conversation from theoretical "coffee shop talk" to a tangible statutory process.

Here is the kicker: recent polling shows that Canadians might actually be more willing to negotiate with the West than they are with Quebec. About 55% of Canadians say they would be open to sitting down at the table if Western separatism became a serious threat. That tells me that, across the board, there is a growing recognition that something in the current system is broken.

We aren’t just talking about identity or culture here. We are talking about the checkbook and the ballot box. Nearly half of the people in Alberta and Saskatchewan feel like they don’t have a meaningful seat at the table in Ottawa. When you see that 43% of Canadians are open to reforming federal programs like equalization just to keep the peace, you realize this frustration has gone mainstream.

And let’s be real the stakes are shifting. With global trade tensions and talk of new tariffs, the economic leverage has moved. While most people would still choose to keep the country together, there is a loud, growing sentiment that the West provides more to the federation than it receives in return.

As someone who has spent decades building communities, I know you can’t keep a structure standing if the foundation is cracked. You don’t fix a house by ignoring the leaks in the basement until the whole thing starts to tilt.

It feels like we’ve reached a point where the West can’t just be "managed" anymore. There is a demand for a partnership based on modern realities. We aren't necessarily looking for an exit, but we are definitely looking for a fair deal.

So, is it time for a hard reset on how the provinces talk to each other, or are we just headed for a messy divorce?

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🚨 BREAKING:

In 2009 CHINA, bought a Nunavut mine in a fire sale for $1.4 billion (US).

For 55 years NO PRIVATE COMPANY would build the road or port to make it viable.

Now Carney is fast-tracking $900 million of your taxes to build it for them.

The road doesn’t connect a single community.

The Inuit call it “a road to nowhere.”

Canadians pay.

China profits.

[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

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Chapter 89 - Balance of Power has just been posted. Enjoy!

[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

@DVWritersGuild this is going to be an awesome presentation!

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[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

@WeAreCanProud What should have been a unanimous no-brainer decision gets defeated?!?!? It just proves that our Canadian identity means nothing to all these newcomers!

[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

@CTVCalgary @CTVJKanygin Something that SHOULD have been a unanimous no-brainer decision gets defeated?!? Just goes to show how little our Canadian identity means to all these newcomers!

[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

@calgaryherald Something that SHOULD have been a unanimous no-brainer decision gets defeated. Just goes to show how little our Canadian identity means to all these newcomers!

[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

@lhallwriter All of the time!

[Diamond Valley Writers Guild @DVWritersGuild]

Creating the Illusion of Flesh and Blood on the Page
Presented by Martin Lastrapes
July 19, 2025, 9:30 am PDT
Live in person at the Hemet Public Library, 300 E. Latham Avenue, Hemet. (Unable to attend in person? Email [email protected] a Zoom invite.)

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Don't miss this! Attend Live in Hemet or via Zoom! email the guild to get on our mailing list!!

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The Role of the Antagonist in Storytelling Presented by
Ash Bishop, March 15, 2025, 9:30 am PDT
Presenting in person at the Hemet Public Library, 300 E. Latham Avenue, Hemet (Unable to attend in person? Email [email protected] to request a Zoom invite.)

[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

After years of watching and contemplation, I’ve finally made the switch from Scrivener to @LivingWriterApp.

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[Diamond Valley Writers Guild @DVWritersGuild]

1st manuscript, 2nd+ draft edits, or published already, this will set your writing year off on the right foot & mindset. Push back universal writing obstacles: mythical writer's block, dreaded imposter syndrome, &the cycle of unending revisions/ensure you reach 'The End' in 2025.

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No Excuses: Ten Tips to Get to the End presented by Benjamin Spada, January 18, 2025, 9:30 am PST at the Hemet Public Library, 300 E. Latham Avenue, Hemet.
(Unable to attend in person? Zoom invite will be emailed out the night before the meeting).

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Celebration of Poetry, Live Readings with Discussion
Presented by Members of the Diamond Valley Writers’ Guild on August 17, 2024, 9:30 am PDT
Live at the Hemet Public Library, 300 E. Latham Ave, Hemet/Zoom.(Can't attend in person? Email [email protected] for Zoom invite).

[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

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[Kevin Kindle @KevinKindle]

@calgaryeconomic @cityofcalgary @TourismCalgary It looks like a bunch of virus cells!! Is this to remind us of the covid fiasco? You know, where we were forced to get vaccinated to keep our jobs? While I did keep my job, my body is now unable to perform many things I used to and they’ve had to modify my job.