There really are not many diseases that are detectable in utero that result in severe life long disability. Most severe defects will kill the child before the age of five. Other like Downs are fairly manageable and don’t actually put that much of a burden on the healthcare system. Anymore than an autistic kid or other…

There are no waiting lists for emergent or truly time sensitive health issues in Canada or the UK. Yes there are waiting list for things like chemo( chemo lists are actually due to it being a secondary treatment since surgery is usually the first line of defence with most cancers)  or hip replacements but people in…

They are probably not completely wrong about that. Some Fentanyl is probably coming across the southern us border the same way cocaine and various other street drugs do. However the bulk of it actually comes from China.  Don’t tell them or they will want to build a Pacific Rim style sea wall.

The fur may really fly when the wall tries to go through the several reservations on the border. The government may try the traditional route of bribing Chief and council but legally that may not hold up. There are some tribes that Chiefs to decide what is built on their land. However It sounds like the government is…

Do you realise there is a difference between cowardly and stupidity? Sometimes its better to keep your skeletons buried and craft your policies even tighter rather than drag yourself back into the spotlight to soon. Not to mention dragging your family through back to back campaigns. 

I have found its not really meant as a nice thing though. At best it passive aggressive virtue signalling. At worst its way for the person to make sure the person they are speaking to is also a “god fearing Christian” and not god forbid an athesist or even “gasp” a non Christian.

What bothers me about outrage culture is 1) The movement is so white its not even funny. Its not being driven by oppressed people speaking up for themselves its still white people deciding what is or isn’t culturally acceptable. If i get one more white person telling me an Aboriginal, how I should feel about Elizabeth…

A condiment is anything made of multiple components you would use with multiple dishes but would not consider eating on its own. Not to be confused with a sauce which is is made of multiple components but has a specific purpose. Or a topping which is a single item. 

That is because we call it back bacon.

No but it is different for women of colour. A a white woman you already have the “right” eye colour, skin colour and often build and features that are considered beautiful. Body hair is just another way Asians and other groups are frequently “othered” and told they don’t measure up. You are told you don’t measure up…

Damn I was hoping this wouldn’t one of those cases where the product is only available in the US(I’m Canadian). I love Ben and Jerry as a treat but the pints are kind of an odd size for me. There really isn’t enough for two bowls of ice cream but it way to much to eat in one sitting.

As someone with pretty severe Asthma I hear you loud and clear. I may look okay but there are still days when a ten minute walk or normal conversation just isn’t happening. Whenever I’m off sick and I go to the mall to pick up a prescription(its where I change buses on my commute and its actually the most convenient…

Canada and the US have done everything you just listed and more to Native Americans. Shooting at protesters? Yep that’s what sparked Oka and happened again at Standing Rock. Starved? Yes that’s actually how they got us to sign most of the treaties in our province. Not allowed full citizenship? We couldn’t vote until…

As a Native person that is flat out wrong. The oppression of Native Americans has lasted several hundred years and resulted in tens of millions of dead. The US had a flat out extermination policy at one point. So by any measure it worse than a conflict a few decades old even with several million dead. Hell at least…

Trying to cast Palestinians as “indigenous” is simply wrong. Indigenous people are simply whoever settled the area first. Which in this case would be the Canaanites (early Jewish people) who settled the area in roughly 1200 BC. So its actually Israeli’s that are indigenous to Israel. As an Indigenous person myself I…

See this is why I can’t support porn. Even with regulations women still end up exploited. It also desensitises men to the exploitation and normalises behaviours that should never be acceptable. Porn even on under the best circumstances treat women as objects and tells men that is desirable. 

Can Trump just fucking die already? Or better yet have stroke so he can be paralysed and unable to speak while Pence loses the next election to Michelle Obama.

This sounds like something the Cody’s from Animal Kingdom would do. Except their professionals and totally would have hijacked the truck in the desert and then drove to their pre-planned get away cars. All while bitching and backstabbing each other. 

Way more people have kids than people who are childless so actually catering to families is the smart business move. Your the one insisting you lifestyle be catered to actually. So who is the selfish asshole again? Frankly I’d rather hear a kid cry than another entitled asshole bellowing about their non-existent…

Kids have medical appointments too and don’t climb stairs as well as grown ups. One group of kids playing is hardly a terrible tragedy. Sometimes it seems like the anti -kids crowd is the whiniest most entitled supposed “adults” around. You were minorly inconvenienced for a few seconds get over yourself.