Knowing my fellow Canadians it’s the usual, “Oh, shit, we totally forgot to root for one of our own getting this gig. Is it too late now? Oh God, we’re gonna look like we have no culture of our own again. No not Celine again, that's worse than no culture, is Kanye too mad to come now?Argh!"

Thank-you.

The issue is him being the headliner. If he was part of the show, that's one thing but having it be a showcase for him? I'm not keen on that idea. I wouldn't have minded if it was the opening show because there you're welcoming all countries but this is us saying good-bye.

Hope not, but I haven't heard anything about that mentioned on Canadian television.

Oh no. If people want to endure them let them pay to go see them wherever.

Not OK. Kanye and Bieber perform in each other’s country and all over the world. This isn’t some ordinary show, the Pan Am games are being hosted by a Canadian city in venues paid by Canadian tax payers. It’s meant as an opportunity to host the competitions but also to showcase qvarious features of the host country…

You'd think that role would provide more bang for the buck.

So she was armed and trained and still got mugged without getting to play Dirty Harriet? What will the NRA make of this I wonder.

Thank-you. This was very informative.

Piebear seems a bit too knowledgeable about pies, my sense is he's done this before and knows to go shower under a waterfall before going home to Piebearspouse and pretending he stayed out looking for the perfect salmon to bring home for dinner.

He was probably right. I grew up in the 70's and 80's and find that most fruit and produce tastes pretty bland compared to when I was a kid. I think it has to do with things being picked earlier and ripened in storage instead of naturally but you'd barely know what you were eating if you couldn't see it. Since my…

I’m not American but I know how patriotic you are, so how is flying this flag not considered an act of treason?

I heard that but I’ve never known how far it was taken.Could they just declare you black and enslave you or was it a way to classify everyone not American white in a separate category like freed slaves?

I think their confusion stems from the fact that you could be 1/32th black and still a slave. At that point you’d certainly look as white as your owners especially since generations of rapes meant they were your relatives too.

No, I think we’ve got the whole story. You see my cousins also decided to spread their children’s vaccination schedules to where it was a matter of more vaccines now or no pre-school admission, they believed in their choice enough to skip pre-school even if it inconvenienced them because they didn’t think the world…

Sorry to disappoint you but if you saw how hard it is to convince many seniors to get their flu shots even though they're told of the risk of infecting their older, frailer friends and neighbors or very young grandkids you'd know the dumb apples are not falling far from the dumb tree. I believe older generations…

That you never thought it would come from a non-tween mouth?

Really? So the ones who come to Montreal and act like frat boys in drag would get in trouble back home? Seeing them always made me glad I’m not a joiner.

Sorority girls must love her. Wonder if she laughed so hard at her own joke that she ended up throwing up her beer all over the place as they do.

That’s true in principle but in reality children are at the mercy of their parents unless the State wants to intervene. CPS could simply take custody until the children get vaccinated but getting all those recommended by pediatricians takes several months. With the horrors we know happen all the time in foster care I…