Back when he was just a regular ol’ MP he made Canadian news for admitting he smoked weed *while in office* so your chances may be good. Best believe he likes to party it up with the best of them - not for nothing is he of Montréal bon vivant stock

That’s not true though — a majority of those who made below $50,000 voted for Clinton and a majority (or rather a plurality) of those making over $50,000 voted for Trump. Lots of poor folks stayed home — and of course there were some poor whites in places like West Virginia who were/are gung-ho Trumpsters — but let’s…

THANK YOU!!! I would like to hear your thoughts on how to achieve world peace. You have solved so many seemingly endlessly-discussed problems in one mere paragraph.

There are some valuable counterpoints that people are giving in the comments, but I am really feeling you on this. I don’t know if this is a good comparison, but whenever people denounce the Real Housewives shows I often detect a subtext of “get these obscene women over 35 out of the damn spotlight already.” Multiply…

Oh I am not shocked or anything — this particular angle is just a new one for me. I used to date an American whose dad was a doctor practising there and I thought I had heard every far-fetched fantasy about our health care system through him. Not saying what we have is perfect (and mileage varies across provinces) but…

(In any case, the FDA already would have a policy on importation of those particular drugs to the extent that they exist, and would not be importing Mefloquine in any scenario. The generic drugs are 100% fine — pretty sure there never has been a problem with any of those).

Damn, that’s ballsy! Health Canada does a pretty damn good job of inspecting and regulating drug imports. Anyone wanting to see the department’s policy on drug importations can look here: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/compli-conform/import-export/gui-0084_biu-uif-eng.php It’s not my field so I could be missing…

Damn, this is so sad — I wonder if it will ultimately make people mad enough to crack the door open for universal health care to be on the table in the U.S.? I will try my best to further the cause of Canadian hegemony by touting its benefits (to counter the myths spread by the U.S. right wing that we all hate it or…

In this situation, you would have to be able to show that the accuser definitely knew the information was false and that the statement was made with malicious intent (there is a good overview of this and other reasons why presidents don’t sue, and Trump’a allegations involve Obama serving in his role as sitting…

Ha I sure hope you’re right, but with this administration there is always some fresh hell waiting around the corner. Just when you think you’ve hit the rock bottom, they throw several consecutive shovels :P

Yes, it was my impression too that the rampant wage theft and labour rights violations made people *really* blow the Republicans’ phones off the hook. I think this may have been a bridge too far where even those who hate unions or anyone in a union that isn’t theirs understands that stealing wages is not okay —…

Nice! <3 Jacobin

You realize he is still a Senator, right — who also sits on the Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions committee? I’m going to leave aside his high-profile health proposals during the campaign phase, because apparently running against someone in the primaries is akin to cold-blooded sabotage and that taints…

Thank you. This was a weird post, and strikes me as very not necessary in the current political climate. I’m marching out there in all kinds of solidarity protests because there is an actual rise of fascism in the U.S. - I’m not super keen on hearing that fellow feminists are willing to snub those working hard to…

Thank you. I’m reading this going “we are supposed to hate Bernie Sanders now???” For shit’s sake, the more air time the U.S. public is provided on key issues like health care the better - it’s not like the public proved itself to be knowledgeable on how screwed over they would be without the ACA in the election. Is…

One of the things that became clear to me as a Canadian politics researcher is that the idea of who represents an Indigenous community in any respect is almost never a remotely casual thing (despite the plethora of other differences between the various communities/nations). So I suspect this might have been have been…

Update: I had a native speaker weigh in on this debate and she says that both Сделай and Сделайте are good, but Cделаем is perhaps best in the idiomatic sense because this form “we will make” is used a lot in slogans despite the fact that it technically is not imperative.

I am currently debating the first word with a translator (we agreed on the correct translation of the rest, which is . . . Америку Великой снова). He says it should be Сделать “to make (although it’s not totally equivalent in the idiomatic sense)” and I say the imperative should apply with Сделай/Сделайте “make.”…

Is the committee Chair Kent Brockman by any chance?

I think we’d be pretty into it - as long as you promise not to vote Conservative! ;) Some of us are trying hard to earn the socialist reputation we’ve been given in U.S. media over the years