Well, the move is complete — NWP is now hosted independently (at BlueHost), and the WordPress-hosted version has now been sidelined. Updates will continue, as usual (ie. sporadically).

How did the switch go? There were a few problems with getting the “.ca” domain to play nice with the WP-recommended host, but all in all the process has been fairly straightforward. Still a few things to work out though, as certain techie aspects of the new setup continue to elude me; independence is tough sometimes.