Holy shit. That is astounding.

. . . that “eh” was uninentional.

It really is one of those ‘sometimes Canada feels like a really big small town’ moments, eh?

I’m cheating because it was in the book :p I’m not sure if it made it to screen (though I’m not suuuuuper thrilled with the whole ‘beating my wife turns into sex’ scene that DID make it to screen, either)

Eeeeeyep. And the main character we’re supposed to be rooting for (who is also the man who is raped) is ALSO a rapist?!? That’s when I fricking threw the book across the room: when the main female character said ‘no’, and the main male character - the guy being presented as our romantic lead, the honourable hero -…

Hi, I’m a mentally ill person - please, don’t bring us into this. Amongst all their assorted hatreds, true conservatives and racists don’t like the mentally ill, either. And mental illness doesn’t make you a shitty person: a white supremacist society is capable of doing that all on its own.

A million stars, my friend

Never forget the Jared Kushner calling Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to beg Trudeau to call Trump and talk Trump out of scrapping NAFTA. Because the White House couldn’t do it.

It’s quite fascinating to see so many comments here firmly saying she should be kept in prison for life. “As a criminologist” is becoming my catch phrase, but, nonetheless... It’s genuinely fascinating (and a bit upsetting). It seems to relate to pretty much the biggest issue in the justice system: is prison (or…

This crime occurred nearly 50 years ago. Where is the evidence that she’s still a danger to society? She’s elderly, she’s been in prison for 4 decades, let her have a few years of freedom (presuming psychiatric and risk assessments don’t find her to be a likely danger to reoffend).

*Orson Welles clapping*

ALSO, remember all the people who made buttheaded comments about Justin Trudeau wearing Ramadan-celebrating socks to the Toronto Pride Parade? Comments like, “Wow, ironic considering Muslims want gays dead!11!!!!1"? I demand they all have this study shoved in their faces, accompanied by a horrifically loud sad…

Okay, as both a queer person, and someone who grew up in evangelical Chrsitianity . . . yeah, this is no fricking surprise.

I’m a criminologist, and you know how we say that slavery never ended, it just turned into the prison system? In Canada we add that residential schools never ended, they just turned into the prison system. (And many other societal institutions that uphold colonisation, etc.)

I’m actually teaching right now, and let me tell you, a heck of a lot of time is spent on finding creatively-phrased ways to tell college students, “I want you to think about the many ways your question is stupid.” The language may be forced to be slightly edited/couched, but the sentiment is very much there,…

“I want you to think about the many ways your question is stupid.” - that is the most amazing teacher-phrase I have ever heard. 

The last residential school shut down in the 1990s. Indigenous people are hugely overrepresented in prison populations, in homeless populations, in victims of crime. They are way more likely to live in poverty, to experience violence, and to have poor access to healthcare and education. Halifax still has a proud…

May I just say that you would make an amazing teacher?

The band in my local area undertook a really remarkable program: numerous young women lived communally for several months, and spent several hours a day studying their traditional language (which they themselves hadn’t previously known). They spoke to one another only in their traditional language. It was really…

“Imagine working on 50 algebra problems that you can do in your head, but the teacher requires you to show your work.