This sounds all well and good, but you’re overlooking the proud Canadian tradition of striking up a commission or review process, which in turn offers up all sorts of cutting-edge and responsible policy options, which in turn get rejected by the government that struck the commission in the first place. See, e.g.:…

Tangential, but is it Deadspin style to capitalize dog breeds, or just Dachshunds? I mean, they’re ALL worthy of capitalization, but Dachshunds in particular deserve the treatment. Good work!

I know nothing about cars but this sounds like a bad idea. Why not enforce speed governors on every car up to, say, 140 km/h that can only be taken off by licenced mechanics at racetracks or wherever?

WHY DID IT HAVE TO HAPPEN

FALSE. I am in Toronto and root the fuck for the Leafs enduring endless pain and misery because I’m from Ottawa, but also root for the Raptors to win the ball trophy because it is fun and good for them to do so.

as a former TA, one advantage of getting grad students to do the nitty gritty shit in discussion groups/paper marking/etc is because they’re often a lot closer to the material being covered in class than the profs themselves. Many profs are too busy with their own hyper-specific research or living the sweet tenured…

$5k wipes out an AWFUL lot of credit card debt to an AWFUL lot of people. Now they don’t have to pay $150/month for a card they can’t afford to use.
(I miiiight be speaking from experience here.)

All dogs are clearly good dogs and go to heaven, but what is the worst breed?

yeah, this is even MORE heartwarming/breaking when you consider what “canada” means to most First Nations communities, i.e., a colonialist invention of white supremacy that tried to eradicate your whole culture and family just so we could get some, like, potash in the ground or whatever.

hey nelly! you’re the best, a true model of grace AND great pipes and killer tunes.

(ps–Victoria is nice and everything but I do not doubt for a second that being the only non-”white” person in a class there was easy. Glad you made it out alive!!!)

So I’m a relative neophyte to this “caring about soccer” thing, but after watching the Copa, is it fashionable/acceptable to root for Chile over their South American brethren? They seem pretty rad and Chile seems like a pretty, uhh, chill place, or at least in the post-Pinochet era.

I mean, sure, but in the ranking of Detroit-raised billionaire monsters, he’s gotta be close to being the least-worst, right?

“Healthcare? For everyone? For FREE?! Oh, man, Justin, I knew Canadians were funny and everything, but, wow, ha, good one!”

He promised to redo the process through which Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain pipeline was approved under Harper, albeit with a more robust process. He didn’t change the review process and approved the pipeline regardless.

Well, he’s reneged on basically everything that endeared him to “progressive” voters two years ago (funding Indigenous education, cancelling pipelines, changing our messed-up voting system) while throwing young, female cabinet ministers to the wolves, but hey, I’d take him a trillion times over what came before him or…

meh, he was hanging out on the aga khan’s private island a couple weeks ago, not too big a diff.

Here’s to getting broke as fuck in pursuit of higher education! Definitely fun to come away from grad school with $1000s in debt, no degree and a crushed spirit.

Yeah, I most certainly should have done my MA in history, or English, or something more, uhh, narratively oriented. On the other hand, I did meet my wife through the program, so it comes out as a wash.

After spending some time in the world of journalism, I figured I should go and do that poli sci MA I had long dreamed of. After enrolling, I had at least three profs tell me my writing was far too “journalistic” or lacked in “sophistication.” One encouraged us to “write what we read,” which he felt should be arcane…

“For the next eight years he didn’t have the chance to surf, enjoy watersports or do many of the things he loved.”