You have to look at the bigger picture. How much would you have to save after taxes to have the same amount of money as you would other wise receive in benefits? Let’s assume you earn 55k and your maternity benefit at 55% would 30k for 52weeks. Most people don’t pay 30k in taxes towards EI before they have a kid. With…

In Quebec we do it a little differently than the rest of Canada - 18 weeks maternity at 70%, 5 weeks paternity at 70% and then 7 weeks parental at 70% and 25 weeks parental at 55%. Parental leave can be split between the spouses and all leave can overlap. Quebec pays out 55 weeks in total, which is more than other…

So frustrating how some white people think they can’t enjoy black music and culture without whitewashing it or pretending that they’re black.

Is it normal to be familiar with the names of state prosecutors? We don’t vote for our attorneys in Canada, so I find the whole thing kind of bewildering.

This speaks to the vast disconnect between the administration and the faculty. Facilities, marketing, and possibly HR would all have weighed in on this video, I think. Probably a vice-president as well. Most likely none of those involved have the smallest grasp of the stuff actually being taught/researched at the…

If you want to do the right thing, just keep being a good person and stand up against violence against any vulnerable person where you see it. It’s really not hard and you really shouldn’t see your gender as any kind of barrier to how beneficial you can be in the world. Being a woman doesn’t make you better than being…

Where did you get that statistic from? I don’t know why you think that more men get rejected than women, not all women look like supermodels. It’s certainly not my experience that having a working vagina means I’m guaranteed to find someone who wants to have sex with me. Have you considered what it’s like to be a less…

I can pretty much guarantee that at least by the time they are thirty years old, every woman personally knows (not in the facebook sense of knowing another person) another woman who has been threatened, harassed, assaulted or even killed because they rejected a man’s romantic interests. My sister has been threatened…

In my province, the testing is routine regardless of your first blood test results (which I totally effed because I didn’t fast and drank a hot chocolate while waiting to be called, so when the results came back the doctor was like, oh you seem borderline). The drink really sucks, think of a 16oz flat orange crush…

So she should just accept any and all treatment from the paparazzi because she was asking for it? The paparazzi can’t be expected to abide by any kind of ethical standard? She has a working relationship with the paparazzi - both sides profit off her fame. But she’s not allowed to complain if their behaviour crosses a…

I have considered opinions on everything, so I’m probably the right person.

I don’t think it’s bad that there is overlap between the magic and the muggle world. But I think that the relationship between the magical/muggle realities is less like a secret society and more like an ethnic minority that has chosen to live apart from the majority and keep their own traditions separate. In the books…

Actually, his mother’s love is what protected him. It is deep and ancient magic that Voldemort pays no attention to. It was Dumbledore who recognized that this magic could protect Harry if he lived with Petunia. As long as he was under Petunia’s care, however poor her treatment of him, Harry would be protected.…

They should of said that this case has prompted them to take a long hard look at themselves and their HR policies and who they employ.

Actually, Harry is incredibly vulnerable in the muggle world and his strength comes from being humble about his abilities and not desiring power. Harry doesn't use the muggle world to his benefit at all. He doesn't seem to want much to do with the muggle world

I don’t understand this need to merge the magical world and the muggle world. The movies kept focusing on the scenes that involved the muggle world, even interjecting scenes that weren’t in the books and didn’t add to the plot just to constantly shove magic into regular reality. The books always emphasized the…

The “Golden American ponyboy” is Canadian, FYI.

Be angry about the present. The past doesn’t care how we feel about it and we can’t change it. If we avoid these songs and stories because they make us uncomfortable, we’ll forget our past and you know how that saying goes.

Why read Jane Austin?

What is ridiculous is the disparity in cost between Quebec and Ontario even for private daycare.