Hi, I’m a criminologist; I study crime for a living. People who are being abused have an incredibly difficult time getting away from an abusive situation. Often they are financially dependent on their abuser (especially if they’re a child, as in this case). Often they have been told that if they leave, they or…

Oh God, I know - it’s awful! I can’t handle the idea of having an outdoor cat in these conditions. Augh, it’s so upsetting. We’ve got bears wandering around, terrifying all the international visitors, getting into encounters with dogs (which fortunately so far have ended without harm). Ridiculous, eh?

RIGHT?!? Just because the animals aren’t violent, or aren’t skittish, doesn’t mean you just go up and treat them like pets! We’ve got a special relationship with wildlife in BC, a really unique coexistence due to our eternal proximity to nature. When people do crap like this - feeding animals, interacting with them…

RIGHT?!? It is so fucking infuriating and upsetting every year when animals are being put down because of people trying to tame them or feeding them or such nonsense. Up on Burnaby Mountain we’ve got the bears, of course, and coyotes, and I swear, trying to convince people that a) no they don’t want to kill you,…

Also, some of the local wildlife experts are basically saying not that, like, this sea lion was warning people off his turf, or being aggressive: he most likely thought the girl’s dress was food. People, unfortunately, tend to feed them. A big hunk of white stuff can look like any number of edible things, and he was…

Do keep in mind that this is in BC. though - here we’re in contact with wild animals more often than most folks probably are. You expect sea lions to hang out, you expect coyotes to saunter through your yard, you aren’t astounded if you have a bear who occasionally knocks on your back door. People who have grown up…

Bisexuality (and non-gender-binary) - it exists!

I’m a white woman currently teaching a bunch of criminology students - most of whom want a career in policing - at a university here in Canada. Today we watched a film (“We Were Children,” it’s a really amazing film) based on the accounts of two individuals who went through Residential Schools. A lot of the time is…

Uhhhh, no. No it doesn’t. Oh my God, freedom of expression and freedom of speech is a legal thing - you won’t get arrested for being being a dick. But I can come over and tell you, ‘Hey, you’re a dick,’ and you don’t get to be indignant about that.

Yeah, dang. Not apologising after bumping into some one is pretty much grounds for justifiable homicide up here.

Thank GOD times have changed.

Exactly. His actions and his mannerisms are very familiar, even that particular way of pointing, an instinctual sign to denote ‘Wait a minute, something incorrect has occurred’.
He also has a very similar face - whether it’s the expressions or the actual structure I’m not sure - to my little (male) cousin who has…

I have autism myself (as well as a number of family members with autism), and thought the exact same thing.

HAHAHA! I love your Mom.

I don’t know whether I’m more or less terrified to find out that this person is Jared Kushner.

This is a paragraph from Fox News. FOX. NEWS.

Actually also quite interesting, and again from a good (independent) article, he apparently has trouble with English-style emphasis. Pierre Trudeau had somewhat draconian language rules in their household, causing the kids to be far more familiar with French.  Justin apparently still speaks in a Francophone - though…

Holy shit, some reports are saying the plea was made by KUSHNER. It was Ivanka’s fricking husband who desperately called up Canada. Oh my God.

Oh! Also, as an academic, I will note: any statements I’ve made, e.g. the books in the briefcase, come from independent observers, not from his memoir or his political team.

He has two BAs, in Literature and Education, and taught highschool math, creative writing, law, drama, and Frenc. He also studied engineering, and started an MA in environmental geography (I’m an academic, so areas of study interest me, hah). He apparently spontaneously recites poetry, and loves to read so much that…