Can we add, don't compliment someone at work in a service job for their appearance. Ever. It's totally uncomfortable, especially when it's established that we're subservient/inferior. It totally reeks of exploiting a power differential. By all means, tell us how efficient/polite/hard-working we are, but leave our…

So much this. That was my constant bitch whilst student teaching in a 7/8 split in the fall, school is a workplace and workplaces have rules about how you dress.

The RCMP are the actual worst about investigating sexual assaults, and the Crown isn't much better. One of their own raped me and was found not guilty because I had 'willingly come over' (to babysit—was my dad's coworker ffs). The family still lives in town and his wife takes great joy in telling people what a whore I…

BSc Geography and Geomatics! We had a prof do something very similar, what was "northern" Canada.

Find a place that has affordable pedicures and reward yourself every few weeks for stuff like "cut out pop", "chose fruit and yogurt instead of icecream", "replaced rice/pasta with qoinoa", " drank 2l of water every day". Find something fitnessy that you can be excited for, zumba is really good that way.

If your 'maids are local look on craigslist or kijiji, there are usually aestiticians that do parties! Have em over for a pedicure party after the fact with lots of bubbly and good snacks.

Treat yourself to something fun with someone who actually values your friendship!

That's a really good question, and it makes my geographer's mind go into hyperdrive. I think it has a lot to do with someone's sense of place.

I guess, but my concern is technically she doesn't work (works under the table) and doesn't have her own bank account. If it goes south it doesn't bode well for her. I think that's a good suggestion, I hadn't thought of that.

I have a friend who's getting married in July, she's 22 he's 23. They've been together since they were 17 and 18 respectively, never been with someone else. She doesn't have credit in her own name, she had awful relationship models growing up and I really don't think they should be getting married. I'm invited to the…

Yup. There's a a lot of ignorance about the ethical issues surrounding visiting because " There are no Americans".

Seneca is a brand of apple/sweet potato/banana chips too, just so's you know. They *are* mighty tasty, mind.

I usually go with " My dogs *are* my kids"

Honestly, I like having a hot vacation spot that's devoid of the types that flock to Mexican resorts...

What a cow. Do something fun instead of going to her wedding (spa day!), and maybe look into a councilor who specializes in disordered eating. That bag (she is not your friend if she has the cojones to say something like that) is not worth sacrificing your health and sanity over.

Velo_boyfriend and I split it pretty much 50/50, some weeks we cook every night, others we don't. It all depends on what we have going on (exam season usually means convenience food or him cooking all the time...similarly, his busy season usually means I cook more often)

#Corrections it's Ottawa, not Ottowa. It's the damn capital of Canada, spell it right.

Dads can have some major head-in-sand behavior when it comes to their baby girls.

Nice. Part of me wants my own company, part of me loves the shit city staff get away with.

I'm eligible to register as one after I graduate. I like working with urban-rural interface communities, but ffff me the complaining drives me crazy (and so do official community plans). There are more private sector jobs here, but planners are one of the jobs that have 'averaging agreements' under provincial…