I'm a Canadian and I like our hate speech laws. It's not "thoughtcrime" once you have spoken, it's verbal assault. In Canada, people can think that Jews are horned usurers and lesbians are base animalistic perverts and Jamaicans are liquor-store-robbing gun-toting monkey-men all they want - they just can`t say it in a…

In Canada, speech which is intended or likely to incite hatred or violence against a particular group is not protected. In my very humble opinion, as a Canadian, I think it works well for us. If someone told me tomorrow that I could wave my hand and magically make our speech laws identical to the US's, I would say;…

That douchehat Ezra Levant is going to have a field day with this.

Because of the way we have set up society, teen pregnancy is a social ill. It either outright prevents promising people from succeeding, or it hampers their progress as they struggle to become independent wage-earners. We chose to create an education system where people are trained for employment in their teen and…

I think anyone who would attempt to humiliate a gay man by filming him in an intimate moment and then broadcasting it to everyone and their dog could reasonably be labeled as "dangerous or disturbed". It demonstrates callousness and profound lack of empathy, which are character traits we should make every effort to…

Seriously. There is a reason why they used to say "women lose a tooth for every child they have". Fetuses be leeching calcium, yo. We're LUCKY to live in an age of widespread nutrition and relative food security.

Sarah already gets to be a ballerina. She should just be grateful for that and stop whining.

It's because the motives are different. Male family annihilators are often objectifying the children they kill; they're not killing them because they love them and are trying to protect them from phantom threats. They kill them because they are possessions whose "theft" will hurt their partner, as in; "If I can't have…

I'm here in this thread because my name is Emma! And I love clotted cream. And Emma Thompson's version of Sense & Sensibility. Her Golden Globes acceptance speech was a-freakin-dorable.

Most of his "work" in this regard has been via his twitter feed, so if, like the rest of the world, you have been ignoring it since 2009, it was easy to miss.

To be fair, Ashton has brought a lot of attention to GEMS, which is a legit, non-Ashton-aggrandizing charity that works to address the problem of underage prostitution. They're not doing this instead of working with legit charities, they are doing this as well as.

There are rules to prevent women who are doing AI to conceive, from using sperm from a man who is not in one of two categories: 1)Their primary romantic/sexual partner, or 2)An anonymous donor to an accredited sperm bank. Friend of the family? Nope. Brother-in-law to a lesbian couple? Nope! Gay men's biological…

If I have a son, and I end up with some hand-me-down frilly pink dresses in my trunk of baby clothes, I might just put them on him from time to time, on laundry day or whatever. He won't remember!

I think it's awkward when people think it's an insult when strangers refer to their child as the "wrong" gender. Isn't it normal to not be able to distinguish boy babies from girl babies? Anyone who would get "angry" over that, needs to take a few deep breaths. And then ask themselves why they are so invested in…

The person responsible for Nadya Suleman's brood was a doctor with a hippocratic oath, too. It seems to me that the flip side to having a for-profit health system, is that those who can pay for it get on-demand treatments, whether they truly need them or not.

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I see what you are saying, but I think there is a subtle difference between that thinking, and Marinelli's statement, which specifically names Catholicism and other Christians. The former is a smirky attempt to delegitimize same-sex unions as there is an underlying assumption that only religiously-sanctioned marriages…

As a Canadian, the whole notion that just being born in another country would besmirch or invalidate a person's presidency is eminently silly. One of our prominent former government officials, The Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, was born in Haiti. (And is a woman, and is pure class). We have some weirdness about…

It is not hateful to acknowledge that the cost of having a child in our society is beyond what those below middle class can bear. That's not a character flaw of the poor, it's a flaw in our society. Money doesn't grow on trees, and having a worldview that takes into account this fact is not "elitist". Take your smoke…

One of my best friends is a brilliant novelist with a couple of degrees from a decent Canadian Uni - and he was abused by his mom, too.