Regan did not have to go out that day, Friday, June 19th. The government
had issued a heat alert for here in southern Ontario, the dangers of heat
and humidity augmented by the presence of Covid-19, the pandemic. There is
social unrest everywhere. It was safest, for those of us who had the ability
to do so, to putter about our homes in air-conditioned comfort. Regan
certainly did not have to go out that day, the last day of her life, her
final hours spent to the last moment doing what she did in opposition to
oppression, abuse and cruelty.

These are unhappily strange times and early on the morning of the 19th I
was, as usual, perusing news about the social upheavals worldwide as a
result of events forcing enhanced recognition of bigotry, racial disparity,
and the plight of minorities supressed disproportionately, even killed by
the police when there…