I worked at a very upscale restaurant that served a wonderful Caesar Salad in a large wooden bowl, assembled at the table. I was the line chef prepping the ingredients; we had this chopper-machine whose sole purpose was to dice the anchovies (maybe it had other uses but I never saw them). So one day I was running…

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I used to be a cook at a shitty tourist restaurant in the Berkshires. One day, there were some workmen there replacing the industrial dishwasher setup. I’m over on the line grilling steaks and making veal marsala when I hear this chorus of high-pitched shrieks, followed shortly thereafter by a stampede of screaming…

I worked at a cafe in a seedy part of town going though the early phases of an awkward hipster gentrification. (This is back when we were still using the word “hipster” btw.) During a weekend brunch/lunch sort of rush, we had a homeless man come in (not uncommon at all) and sit down at a table for a while. We tried…

I just want to say, thank you for sharing this. Jezebel does not cover mass shootings or domestic violence in Canada (or the rest of the world) enough.

His gf is a fucking hero - if she hadn’t managed to contact police and tell them what he was doing, how he was dressed and what he was driving they would’ve had no idea what they were looking for. As fucked up as it is that 23 people died, considering he was headed toward Halifax his girlfriend likely saved a shit ton…

A lot of mass shooters are such utterly pathetic waste of space losers that they would never have been able to form a relationship so wouldn’t be in a position to commit domestic violence.

I also think it’s important to note that one of the victims husband has used this a platform that his wife was living in so much fear the last week or two as a nurse, and he has raised public awareness in Canada that the government is severely lacking in providing our front line workers with the protection they need…

I’m a Nova Scotian. It sounds more like a small get together in a very rural area where police wouldn’t have been patrolling. A lot of the victims were part of the random attacks after.

I am a Nova Scotian, currently residing here, and this has devastated our province. It’s a small province so it’s been easy for lots of people to find connections to the victims. This started domestic, but it was all very premeditated it seems, he would have been acquiring all these weapons illegally, the officer…

You have to look at that statement in its proper context: A) there is MUCH less violent crime overall (per capita) in Canada than in the U.S., so it’s not so much that there’s more domestic violence, as it is that there’s significantly less of every other sort of violent crime; B) domestic violence is taken more…

I get calls at my job (National Domestic Violence Hotline) where I can see possible lethality in the callers’ situation. When I first started there I kind of tiptoed around it and brought up the subject gently, but these days I’m very direct and blunt about what could happen to them. Stories like this are why — if…

While mass shooting are rare in Canada compared to the US, ours tend to have a distinctly misogynist aspect:

Other 46% probably just had victims too scared to report or who tried but police didn’t take them seriously and file the report properly

Hi, if you are going to report on this tragedy at least be accurate. “His girlfriend warned authorities that Wortman was driving an SUV modified to resemble a police cruiser and was probably dressed as an officer.” He was driving a modified police cruiser he had bought at an auction. He then switched to am SUV he…

I’m actually surprised it’s only 54%. I’d have thought it would be higher.

And in Canada, intimate partner violence accounts for one-third of all violent crimes reported to police.

I briefly had upstairs neighbors once who would perform meth-fueled spring cleaning every week or two. The garbage cans were around the back of the fourplex so instead of going down the stairs and around the building to throw things away, the’d just chuck it out of a window into the walkway and (usually) take it down…

Lived in the suburbs. Will never do that again.

The house next to our previous house was a rental. Most of the neighbors who came and went were fine, with the exception of one family with three kids. The middle kid, who was about 8 at the time, was a brat who was constantly screaming about something. The screaming and crying were constant, and his parents were…