I think was from Cranbrook.

That’s messed up.

I approve of this comment :-)

Ack, I hate those! How are you supposed to know who’s commenting?

Among Hispanic families it’s usually each parent’s father’s name that gets passed down to the kids. So the kids get a hyphenated name from each of their grandfathers.

I was also going to be a diplomat or work for an NGO! Now I edit technical and financial documents for a government department.

Me too, me too, and yes!

I think the idea is that these places encourage women and girls to give up their babies to white, Christian families, thereby creating a new generation of Republican voters.

I went through a box of Icy Poles a couple of weeks ago in the heat of northern WA. They tasted like nothing (lemonade flavour) but they were so refreshing.

She is supposedly Angela Tian, a real estate agent in Vancouver.

That’s Canadian dollars.

Also, the guy in the Toronto case should be called an *accused* killer.

Slightly off-topic, but why is a 19-year-old woman described as a “girl”? I recall the same thing in another recent story posted here about an 18-year-old female victim (can’t remember the crime). Just seems inconsistent with the language normally used on this site.

Yes, I’m going to Australia next week and will be buying reef-friendly sunscreen.

Hmm... I’ve lived and worked in Quebec for over 10 years, and they *really* don’t like being confused with people from France. I think “francophone” and “Quebecois” (for those from Quebec) are more common, at least among people that I know.

So sorry for your loss.

The guy is French. Not sure what Quebec has to do with this.

I thought someone else wrote the first one due to the lack of exclamation marks and random capitalization.

Someone posted it downthread (in the greys). That’s...something...

BBC says they’ve been in the country two years.