So bizarre. Homolka is a monster and a murderer who has shown no remorse for her crimes - what the hell is this school playing at?

How is this worthwhile for the school? How does this not end with people pulling their kids and transferring them elsewhere? It’s not like there is any shortage of Catholic schools in Montreal.

I just.. I don’t understand what help a person who is not allowed to be alone with children could even be as a volunteer at a school. School volunteers are usually used to supervise children - if you’re really going to the trouble to ensure she’s not alone with kids, she would be just one more individual to be…

Setting aside the obviously much more important issue of a child who was killed, how is it possible that a law enforcement agency would not have followed up and checked on the details of a job application? I mean, aren’t these the people administering background checks on people? I have a friend who works with law…

One of my proudest moments, which is sad, is having crashed on Elizabeth May’s couch when I was younger. I’m actually sure a lot of people could say that, because she was - probably still is - incredibly generous and supportive of young activists. She left the house unlocked so we could let ourselves in in the middle…

See, I’m super uncomfortable with how much Trudeau gets objectified, but particularly because it leads us down a path where the guy with Bell’s Palsy gets mocked because of his appearance. Not too many steps up from Trump’s Kovaleski impersonation, I’m afraid.

I’ve never understood why people see fit to:

They have the same stylist, who introduced them to one another.

Yes it was, and make no mistake - I am an old who remembers the Achy Breaky Heart era, the the mail order line dancing instructional VHS tapes it wrought. I have no idea why I know that about her, beyond the fact that I was teaching a course on pop culture to university students when she was really popular, so we…

Ugh, public transportation giving up your seat etiquette is such a struggle for me. I have an invisible disability that makes keeping upright while standing on public transportation almost impossible, and the attempt to do so leaves me in pain for a day afterward. But I look perfectly healthy, and therefore feel like…

My favourite detail of the batty Time article last week about hanging out with 45 in the White House is that he decided to upgrade the West Wing private dining room (ie. the President’s lunch room) by adding a 70 inch TV and a massive crystal chandelier that, in the accompanying snapshot, not only looks ridiculously…

You say that assuming they aren’t being secretly paid by cigarette manufacturers.

My grandmother was a chainsmoker who lived to be 92. Also drank like a fish. And we always tell these stories, but omit the part about how she was in seriously bad health - essentially confined to an armchair - for the last 25 years of her life. Sometimes long time, stubborn smokers still live a long time, but they…

My aunt was a chain smoker. Whenever we would visit her we’d fish clothes out of the laundry and wear them so that the moment we got home they could be removed and put straight into the wash without it being a waste of water.

Just wait until her subsequent phases get increasingly white trashier, and she eventually re-claims her birth name and starts going by Destiny Hope and touring with Kid Rock.

If your target market is Trump voters and your last phase was appropriating black culture, you’re going to have to shit on your last phase to make your current phase work.

Haha - nice to know I wasn’t the only one sitting there wondering why she was fucking up her sweater and also if real people actually do that knees up the sweater thing they always do in videos and pictures. I do not own a single sweater I would do that to.

To be totally fair, some highly intelligent students (in terms of knowledge and analytical ability) are absolutely terrible with spelling and grammar due to learning disabilities. Increasingly there are accommodations made for students with learning disabilities so that they can’t be penalized for grammatical and…

Anyone manage to find a link for non-Americans? I can’t.

McMaster literally wrote a book about how high level government officials have the responsibility to prevent the president from making stupid and illegal foreign policy decisions, and particularly allowing domestic policy concerns overrule intelligent foreign policy. Anyone in the administration who expected McMaster…