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  Master list — Medieval, Renaissance & related festivals (Canada + major nearby U.S. events) — updated 2025 Notes on scope: “Nearby U.S. events” below are major renaissance/medieval fairs located in U.S. states that border Canada or otherwise sit roughly within the border region corridor (examples: Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania). Distances vary by festival and the Canadian province — if you want exact driving distances from a single Ontario/Quebec/BC town, I can map them. A — Active / confirmed festivals (Canada, 2025) (major or repeatedly held fairs with 2025 pages / listings) Oxford Renaissance Festival — Thorndale (Oxford County), ON — Sept 26–28, 2025 . Oxford Renaissance Festival - Royal Medieval Faire — Waterloo, ON — Sept 20, 2025 (seasonal / annual event listing confirms operation). Destination Ontario Wentworth Medieval Faire — Ancaster (Ancaster Fairgrounds), ON — May 23–25, 2025 (listed/advertised for 2025). Destination Ontario ...
 Ah, now we enter the theatre of power—a palace where the grift wears a flag as its cloak , and centuries-old confidence tricks evolve into statecraft-by-spectacle . Let us trace the con artist’s archetypes within the reign of Donald J. Trump—not in partisan fury, but with the careful scalpel of comparative folkloric analysis. Below is a list of confidence games which Trump either used directly, modified, or echoed in spirit , particularly during his presidency (2017–2021), matched with classic con structures, annotated for analysis and historical continuity. 🎩 The Confidence Games of Trumpian Presidency A Comparative Folklore of Power, Spectacle, and Deception by Cleo for #GreatguyTV / #CitizenCanada ✧ 1. The Big Store (variant: The Fake Problem Solver) Classic Con: The Wire Trump's Adaptation: Trump often created elaborate fictional crises (the southern border “invasion,” the “rigged” election, the war on Christmas) then positioned himself as the only one who could fi...