The Captain Hammer solution....

Co signed! I think it’s the best book I’ve read in at least three years and I read 100+ a year. Have you read the companion book “Rose under Fire”? It’s pretty damn good too.

Both of the major universities in my province (18 drinking age) have several bars on campus, with several more within walking distance. One of the unversities has a 1:1 ratio of bars and tim hortons’ in the student centre alone.

Welcome Typhoid Mary had a little lamb daycare centre!

You were the person who questioned memories at 4, not me. I never said that my memory was more traumatic than shooting a parent, my point was that if I can remember an emotional day like that, certainly the kid is going to remember the trauma of shooting his mom.

I remember the ambulance coming for my grandma shortly before I turned 4 - trauma is like that.

I work with law students going on exchange and we do a country specific health and safety briefing with all students. In the sexual health section I also talk about consent laws and cultural differences in how consent is communicated (coded invitations etc) and remind students that affirmative, verbal consent is the…

Not just in Canada, since the highest court at that time was the privy council in Britain, that ruling applied across the commonwealth. It actually got rejected in Canada first, to our shame which is why Alberta’s Famous Five had to appeal in Britain.

Women didn’t have legal personhood until 1929 in most of the English speaking world. http://people.ucalgary.ca/~gpopconf/pers…

Both my brother and I get asthma attacks from them as well. I find since the smoke/vapour cloud is even bigger than normal cigarettes it’s also harder to avoid.

This is a case that many women are watching closely for how victims are treated in the legal process and is likely to have an impact on reporting rates. While Canada has had affirmative consent laws on the book since the 90's, the way the legal profession has dealt with sexual assault cases has been often sexist and…

That is horrifying. I just tried on google.ca and at least there I’m getting documentary and mother etc first. The fact the day is still on the drop down is terrifying.

Wait, what?!? MRAs are trying to create a holiday honouring Marc Lepine?! There are no words to adequately describe how horrific that is. We’re not even out of January and I think that will be the most disturbing thing I’ll hear all year. They need to be reported to the RCMP immediately.

It does work very well. In the more rural areas you may be afforded less choice in who your doctor is but that’s the same for many stores and services. Even if there are a lack of family doctors in your area there are usually walk in clinics (which often do have doctors who are actually taking patients) and urgent…

Yes, shot from inside the vaginal canal, complete with the dick going bump bump sploosh. It goes through the whole conception and pregnancy process and ends in an external video of labour. WAY~~ more effective at keeping me a virgin through the rest of my K-12 schooling than abstinence-only crap would have been.

Please tell me you didn’t see the sex from the inside video in kindergarten. I saw that one through my fingers in jr. high and I was non-productively scarred for years.

Thank you for such a logical, concise defense of the Lisak study and showing the links between that one and the new study. If I may add to your analysis, the McWhorter study, while dealing with a military population, did replicate many of Lisak’s findings around the proportions of single versus serial rapists, and the…

Apparently it’s called a “loonie toss” here in the prairies. Alberta just repealed their law that classified bare breasts as nude, but before that was the way they could collect tips without getting closer than a metre.

I really hope your student is alright. I was very lucky that my frantic attempts at tracking down all our students in France yesterday went very quickly and all of them were still safe. Though the explosions were still a real threat as our Paris students live worryingly close to where the attacks were.

Thanks for fixing it! I know not everyone can tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing, but this can be a sore spot in many places in Asia. At least you didn’t mix up Japanese and Chinese (which is much easier to do as well!) :)

Thanks for fixing it! I know not everyone can tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing, but…