EI is also paid into by employers in Canada, more so than by employees; employers’ premiums are $2.63 for every $100 of employee earnings while employees pay $1.88 per $100 ($1.52 in Quebec). Benefits also correspond with the income you were making beforehand and are split into two categories: 15 weeks for maternity…

I think it’s important, given that there are things like cosmetic labioplasty - which in many cases is done for a male audience - that we more or less accept in the West. I think it makes sense to really target the worst practices (based on severity, age/consent and likelihood of complications) and to do that we have…

This New Yorker article explains everything XD http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz…

If you played the shorter side and flipped to the longer side you did, unless you were fine with leaving dead air on for at least a couple minutes (usually more) on the shorter side.

Maybe also it refers to the fact that since one side of the tape was always longer than the other (it was very unlikely that you had the exact same count of seconds for the songs on each side) when you flipped over from the shorter side you had to rewind to listen to the longer side from the beginning. Unless you just…

I don’t think I need to add that the alternative “committee” gutted the more pro-labour elements of the Accord, and basically made it so companies don’t have to do shit

No, please don’t paint retailers all with the same brush. None are angels but some of the biggest chains are actually trying to do something about it and others are decidedly refusing. From usnews.com in 2014: “The initial effort [to fix the conditions that led to the Bangladesh accident], the Bangladesh Accord for…

Probably because he/she was expecting it to be criticizing something that was not obviously just a joke. They are not alone (I also came here expecting the author to show more than an inability to grasp the concept of self-deprecation)

Ummm ever heard of The Hermitage museum? With one of the largest and oldest art collections in the world? She is probably the most famous monarch patron of the Arts and one of history’s most prominent catalysts for cultural development. You don’t have to like her (it’s cool, my mom’s family has contempt for the…

Uncomfortable question, but is it also possible that heterosexual men may be afraid of developing *too* close of a bond with their daughters? Like, in this scenario they are not pedos but just the thought of not having the same set boundaries as the old-school dynamics they may be familiar with freaks them out?…

Posts about Russia are definitely my least favourite part of the whole Kinja constellation. Always written with the arrogant, misplaced confidence of a first-year student who read one Brookings Institute article and now thinks they’re expert enough to represent very complicated IR dynamics through cavalier…

Sorry, I can’t seem to edit my earlier comment to add that she has been *perceived* as supporting the Tamil Tigers due to use of associated imagery on her website and in videos (and some statements that were seen to have implied support), but she has clarified that she does not support terrorism of any kind when…

I love her tons also; to try to answer your question though I think it’s because she supports the Tamil Tigers. They are a pretty controversial organization if the name is new to you, and the one journalist from the NYT who she had a Twitter dust-up with specifically mentioned that as the reason she thought MIA was an…

“I’ll go to bed less ignorant! Thanks Fox and friends!” You just might be the first person ever to write those two sentences in immediate succession XD

True that Kitchener-Waterloo also has a lot going for it (home of the second-largest Oktoberfest in the world, and where I met my fiancé). I wouldn’t be surprised if you ended up in Hamilton with the nurse and RMT credentials though! Health care is a huge employer here because of the top-tier med school at McMaster U.…

I think they are talking about a proper reproduction (not a poster) but I still completely agree and also made a comment earlier about how reproductions of famous art pieces are actually very much a basic bitch thing. Fancy bitches find an appropriate original from local or otherwise affordable artists . . . or they…

Yes (!!!) to everything except the reproduction of The Swing. The Rococo aesthetic is on point but true fancy bitches do not get reproductions of art, especially of Art History 101 names like Fragonard. Not that I personally am a fancy bitch (I am not) but my sister is the ultimate and through her and some other…

That’s rich given that Kadyrov was famously implicated for “dancing clumsily with his gold-plated automatic stuck down the back of his jeans” at a 3-day wedding with an aquarium floor in the Wikileaks dump of a few years back . . . http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec…

Ohhh they’ve already gotten that idea :P Look up the “Kids for Cash” case in Pennsylvania that came to light in 2008