Jennifer has emphatically denied that rumor, saying she even reached out to Anna during her divorce from Chris and empathized about how shitty it was for Anna to have to read those stories on top of everything else. Do you have any links that confirm or give solid evidence of the affair?

I watched all of The Vow on HBO, and there’s early footage in there of Mack meeting Raniere for the first time at one of his weird-ass late night volleyball sessions.

I was in the Catholic School Board in Ontario and I definitely did not hear more than a cursory mention of them until I was in my second year of college, when it was covered only in a pretty in-depth Canadian History course. I mean, I literally had a World Religions class in high school where they bloodlessly…

I think you lucked out having Mr. George as a teacher, because I was in high school in the late 80s and early 90s in Ontario, and residential schools were never mentioned. I only learned about them when I went to university...

I’m from Winnipeg. It was definitely something my teacher chose to emphasize (shout out to Mr. George!), not every class covered it.

Which province did you learn about them in? I grew up in BC and if I learned they existed (which I’m not certain I did, I don’t remember it if I was taught it), I certainly did not know what they were like. My friends who grew up in SK did learn about them though.

This school was open until the late 90s. Someone on one of my social media accounts posted something about how while we were watching Friends and the Fresh Prince, kids were coming up through this residential school (let’s not call them boarding schools, I went to a boarding school and those are country clubs, nothing…

This is so strange to experience as a Canadian who was aware of our history. It cannot be said plainly enough, none of this is a surprise. It is all well documented. I was taught about it in high school in 1990. There are books and movies and so many articles. We had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission a few years…

Thank you for pointing out that this is cultural genocide. People need to be reminded about this more often. These children were not allowed to speak their native languages, not allowed to follow their cultural traditions or worship the gods of their peoples, were forced to adopt “christian” names, and were completely…

When catholic pedophilia scandal broke out years ago, some people worked hard to swipe it under a rug. Fox News and others brought doubt by suggesting “gold diggers” our out to destroy the good catho9lic church. Not anymore. I hope there is no way to water down this one.

Oh god I hear ya about living a life ignorant of these places. They weren’t exactly talked about. I grew up near one of the biggest schools, in an area that teaches a very weird version of First Nations history (I’m from Brantford, named for the Mohawk chief Joseph Brant, who fought for the British in the American…

Absolutely—none of this is “in the past.” It’s not even the generational trauma suffered by people who are children and grandchildren of now-dead people who suffered through this system. It’s a live legacy, and the legacy lives on in the oppression of and danger experienced by First Nations people.

Yes, the last school closed in 1996. It’s important to note that the last generation of kids sent to these schools were millennials. At their youngest these survivors are in their very late 20s and early 30s today.

There’s a lot of talk about how “this just happened to your ancestors, it was a long time ago, move on”…

Fellow Canadian here. I cannot count the times I’ve mentioned these “residential schools” when another Canadian boasts about how much better we are than the U.S.

As the article noted, this is not a surprise to anyone paying attention—it’s a horrific fact of life in Canada. I would like to emphasize the fact that these schools were operational well into the twentieth century. They were operational in my lifetime. The Canadian government has had a long standing policy of “assimil…

This conservatorship is an absolute disgrace. Britney Spears has certainly displayed very concerning behavior before, she has well-documented mental health issues, and I have no doubt she would struggle, maybe mightily, to handle her own affairs. And, so what? That last sentence describes lots of people, including…

I have no idea why you want to argue about unclogging a toilet. Find someone else to engage in this bullshit with.

If the toilet is overflowing and you have no way of getting to the store?

Definitely a couple of nice deals this week, but I’m going to pass them up in solidarity to these folks:

Definitely a couple of nice deals this week, but I’m going to pass them up in solidarity to these folks:

Dude, I wasn’t saying the school should have this kid use their fucking hand. That’s fucking stupid.