For your edification, here are four disparate but related thoughts:

1) Everyone on Parliament Hill seems to be in a state of nervous agitation, as an inevitable confidence vote looms that might take the country to another election.

Jagmeet Singh has been a happy campaigner for most of his political career, but it looked as if it might seriously kick-off when he confronted a right-wing heckler who called him a “corrupted bastard” while walking on the Hill.