this makes me so uncomfortable to hear about, i cannot even watch the video. i’m cringing so much.

I truly can’t begin to imagine how Miss Colombia must feel. Plus Miss Philippines never really got to have her moment on stage waving with the crown. Her whole moment was overshadowed. I’m just peeved because these women put so much time and effort into this (which hopefully everyone can agree on regardless of what…

Or Farah Fawcett doll.

I really wish that my knee-jerk reaction to the idea that a partner would have somehow prevented this wasn’t “The partner would just watch and/or participate.” :(

For the first time in a decade I have Americans friends asking for Canada patches for their backpacks again. It’s good to be back!

And sometimes people with wallet chains, neck and knuckle tattoos and hole-ridden shoes are super amazing and rescue like all of the puppies!

Trudeau’s government has actually made a focus on repairing the relationship between government and Indigenous Tribes. Can everything that has happened be taken back? No. But he has launched a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, something that they begged Harper to do for years. It might seem…

Actually, our indigenous people are heartened by some of the promises the current government is making. Obviously if we didn’t have to make these promises that would be ideal, but here’s hoping we’re getting significantly closer to that stage!

Exactly. Even people we deem to be “evil” almost always have a lot of people who like them. Jerry Sandusky. Bill Cosby. Serial killers. Serial rapists. Despots. No one is awful to everyone all the time. It’s not like rapists all walk around punching seals and kicking puppies, with tattoos on their necks and knuckles,…

In Vancouver and Victoria. It doesn’t even get cold enough to snow. There are even palm trees that comfortably thrive here. I don’t even think other Canadians understand how incredibly mild the climate is here. Also bonus, its stunningly beautiful.

I hate that false equivalancy bullshit...like just because *this* is wrong, they shouldn’t bother with *that*. ugh.

I have American family, and the biggest difference that I can see between us is the whole gun culture. Canada has lots of gun lovers, but the culture around it is pretty different. Also, from visiting the US I think protestant christianity is more on display there.

Your welcome package will include homemade mittens and a hockey stick.

I’m so proud and relieved we are back to demonstrating our values. These pictures warm my cold heart. When Harper pulled the xenophobia card during the election with regard to refugees, people were genuinely disgusted, and it did a huge part in shifting the election to Trudeau. He tried to pull the same shit your…

If someone brings this shit up if you can look them dead in the eye and say, “ya know, I’m a survivor of sexual assault. The men who do rape all look like good guys and they don’t come with warning labels. They all have mothers and friends and relatives who love them, but at the end of the day they use that good cover…

My rape was an isolated, one time trauma and I had a support system that included boys and men who were loving and trustworthy. I’m old enough now that I’ve experienced traumas that were harder for me to survive and joys that make survival worthwhile. We all move forward in our own time.

It's Saturday. It's never too early for wine :)

I proposed to my partner and for me, it wasn’t like “well I had to ask him, so it’s not as good as being chosen”. I can see where you might want someone to go out of their way to do The Proposal, but for me, him saying yes was just as good. If I was in a long term relationship with someone who used to say they never…

Why don’t you just ask him to be your husband? Like you already have gone through stuff that can break a marriage, just do it. Especially considering you were against marriage at the start of the relationship men tend to take information like that to heart.