I hate that you can't edit comments here. I was going to say, that statistic is interesting anyway and thank you for sharing it. It's actually higher than I expected. I've lived for years on a reserve in Haida Gwaii and they only ever had one Haida cop and they got him to arrest his own people during the Lyell island…

um yeah I was being sarcastic.

LOL are you serious? Yeah there's so many Inuit RCMP officers and they're all totally allowed to work in their own communities.

" in consultation with their families, close friends or religious advisers,"

Of course, don't be silly. But he has yet to even make an attempt to turn around the oppressive rules of the church or, say, pay the legally mandated restitution to First Nations people in Canada - the Catholic Church still owes millions. I mean come on the Anglican church even paid up. He doesn't have the power to…

So he was in the room during an exam but this doesn't count as contact or some sort of gross violation?

Yes, misandry is the number one gender issue on the net. Way to call it.

Nope, I am under no such illusion that religion and hypocrisy are mutually exclusive. But to deny that this man has power over millions of women's lives is just that, denial. He is a very powerful man and uses his power to gain riches, oppress women, and exploit the poor. I have zero respect for that.

I personally don't think he's better at PR but the press seems to love him, so....?

He is an autonomous person capable of making choices. He could make a choice to tell his church to stop supporting policies that kill women, harm families, and exploit the poor today. But he doesn't. Because he chooses not to.

Wow I am constantly surprised just how willing people are to overlook the ongoing evils of the Catholic Church just because of a Pope who is better at PR. Maybe for example he could repay the millions Canadian courts have said they owe to residential school survivors? Stop taking tithes from the poor while the Vatican…

Bravo for oppressing women and stealing from the poor? Being less bad than other popes doesn't mean he gets my applause. Women are still dying because of this man.

All these pilots saying don't do it - do as you say, not as you do, eh? Keeps the competition out at any rate!

How is that disrespectful? Schools are there for children and families not vice versa. Attending every class is hardly necessary for a robust education.

Yeah, being a teacher must suck when families put their kids needs/experiences before yours.

So you get to make one choice, procreate, then the state takes over. Seems like a reasonable argument to me.

Capital cases cost more than life in prison. Don't be a dope.

but they should just get over it, right?

God that's awful. The only thing worse than being assaulted is having to relive it for the cops and not be believed. 'There's not enough to warrant an investigation' is the common response. THAT'S WHY YOU INVESTIGATE MOTHERFUCKERS. To find out more. What, do they want the case handed to them on a silver platter…

Unfortunately she still received federal distribution for her articles so someone's reading them and paying for them. As a Canadian woman I have never known any woman who has been assaulted, had the crimes investigated, and resulted in prison time for the attacker. FFS look how many women were murdered by the pig…