Canadian universities LOVE American students - same language, and they pay about 5x as much as us Canucks. 

Ding ding ding! See also: Ontario, where the crack-smoking Toronto mayor’s drug dealing BROTHER is now Premier.

TTC in about 1995 or so. With two friends on a very packed train going down town to go shopping on a weekend afternoon. Dude stoking it through his long johns. I was about 13 at the time.

I was on a train that hit someone. You could tell by how slowly the firefighters were coming down the stairs that this wasn't a situation that was going to have any kind of good ending.

And there it is. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.

Jeremy Clarkson is interesting. Punching a production assistant is definitely morally questionable, but seems almost quaint in the post #metoo era.

Trump has an ass ring? Lots of people, good people, are saying it...

Thank you! Went to his Wikipedia page and pulled myself out of a rabbit hole. Also, his award list is as long as my arm!

Do you have a list? I’m trying to read more non-hetero white dudes, too. I started out with Becoming, which I'm really loving after a bit of a rough start. But I haven't founded a lot of fiction interesting lately, so a bit of motivation would be great!

What....what the fuck?? 

This. We have two sons, and people ask if we’re going to “try” for a girl.

His brother was just elected premiere of Ontario. FYI, there’s a third brother, too..

That’s a bit simplistic, but yeah. Any government in power that long puts in place policies that people don’t like. As those policies pile up more people get mad, and change becomes inevitable.

Well that’s fucking terrifying!

I don’t care that he was selling hash, I care that he was running a criminal enterprise. That speaks to his character, as do his associates, in the same way Trump’s gang of clowns speak to his.

Team heart attack!

Which is funny, because now those shitheads are having kids who are moving back to downtowns, driving up housing prices.

Depends on who you ask. At the minimum, they’d been in power for 15 years, which makes for a very stale government. There had been a number of scandals, big or small depending on what your party affiliation is. The increase in power rates has pissed off a lot of people who were very vocal.

The comparison I got was to mayor humdinger, the stupid and evil villian from paw patrol.

The election of Doug Ford is especially awful for a number of reasons: