beyonce's dress is horrible! Kim and Kanye look stunning. And they know it. Which makes it better.

There are lots of programs. The only problem being that many people are unaware that they exist, do not fall into a low enough level of income to require assistance, yet are still struggling because their income has dropped significantly since giving birth while their cost have increased. There are also food banks and…

congratulations for the four people whose minds that you changed. That's the only thing I paid attend to in your whole screed. You should do more of that and less windbagging.

except that as Individual voters and activists Americans have a great deal of power over what happens within their nation. The "I am just one man" excuse is a convenient excuse for those who don't want to involve themselves in actively working towards a different possibility.

wow zee! that is crazy expensive! *thankyou universal healtchcare I love you!*

there's no shame in a hospital monitored detox if need be. Mr boom detoxed in hospital( by necessity) when he quite drinking and then followed up by a year and a half of two to three times weekly private therapy appoinents. Nine years later and he is still rocking the sober life. He has never fallen off the wagon once…

in Alberta but was working for a northern school board. I worked until ten days before my son was born. They didn't even tell me that they were not renewing my contract until three weeks before I was due, my principal called me into the office and told me that "once I was finished with this whole baby thing they…

yeah. My job prior to mat leave had been teaching in a northernfly in community. So they started deducting all sorts of things like northern living allowance, and arctic zone pay before they got to a figure they felt good about basing my mat figure on. It was ridiculous and dehumanizing. honestly I'm lucky enough that…

No I recieved a maximum cap of 780$ a month. which province are you in?

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ahhh- sorry. I didn't mean to be snappish. I did have twins so the costs were doubled during one of my mat leaves while my available funds were not. My diapers were about 22$ for 80 and they went through about 20 a day for the first few months. I had to supplement breast milk with formula one can of which cost 30$ and…

yeah. I firmly believe that unless a nation is 100% free of the taint that comes from endorsing capital punishment on their own soil, than they have no right to judge the judicially sanctioned killing of a convicted murder in another nation.

are you really trying to quibble over what I clearly meant barely covered essential costs and I was receiving the highest benefit tier. Which meant that individuals who made less than I did (and my paycheck was over $3000 a month after taxes) would recieve a significantly smaller maternity benefit.

it may seem like a fantastically better scenario, but it's not particularily great when you are not given the choice as to whether you want to take mat leave or not. When I became pregnant with my first son I had just began a much desired teaching career and would have given up mat leave in a heartbeat to become…

I'm going to be real here for a minute. I am a canadian mother. I went on government mandated maternity leave twice. Once with a singleton, once with twins. Even on the highest alloted tier of my provinces maternity payout I only recieved $780 a month. That money, like employment Insurance, had been deducted off my…

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I would have though Kate would buy maternity clothes, just because she has the budget for it, and can donate all of it to charity afterwards, but I don't really give a shit what she chooses to clothe herself in.

he was in Seven with goop. She got her head cut off. It was a fabulous movie.

I suddenly don't know how to feel, because I have just been converted I to this huge James blunt groupie, and I still fucking hate his music.

it's not really that understandable. I have an education degree. You know going in that there's no guarantee that you will teach your major, and most people prepare by taking a broad variety of electives including a range of candian histories/ geographies. Especially since the last decade has seen a huge shift in the…