It’s because it’s Canada’s 200th birthday and blue isn’t our national colour. That said, the red jerseys/hats look gross.

Sometimes it’s a safety matter, too. An elderly relative has a small dog that she brings everywhere—it’s well-behaved and acts as a companion animal for her, so it’s typically not a big deal. But Christmas Eve is at my parents’ place this year, and my parents have a big dog that loves people but hates other animals…

Depends on the brand. Catholicism used to “let” rich people pay for forgiveness, and that was a big factor in the birth of Protestantism. The Catholic Church doesn’t charge its members nowadays and hasn’t for centuries. I can’t speak for all of the Christian Christians, and I’m sure some don’t charge, but there are…

The riot in the first pic was hockey-related. I’m not even joking.

“Balthazar?” “Present!” “Scheherezade?” “Present!” “Crinoline? Is Crinoline here today?”

Can you imagine having to do attendance/roll call at that school? I’d either end up vomiting or laughing uncontrollably.

I totally agree. It’s something I’ll never understand, especially coming from people who say they oppose abortion on moral/religious grounds. Nobody likes abortion—not pro-choice advocates, not the women who need them, not the clinic staff and volunteers. It’s not about liking abortion. It’s about providing people…

My parents have a floating dock that is full of dock spiders. The worst is when you jump off the dock and, once in the water, realize that you shook loose a bunch of little tiny fish skeletons left over by the spiders. They look exactly like the fish skeletons you see in cartoon depictions of garbage or cat food or…

They actually figured out who the baby was and what had happened! So sad... http://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/kintyre/ 

Here’s the thing: in order to make the system better you need your elected officials to be sympathetic to your plans so that they’ll be put into practice. Even if the current system is broken and needs to change, you still need to work within the confines of that system to bring about change. MacGillis’s suggestion is…

The odds on him flipping the table are at least 3-1.

also because he’s a paranoid maniac

Oh man, would that ever rattle him. He wouldn’t be able to resist going after her and would totally derail himself. Someone call Rosie!

Oh there’s plenty of all of that, but the difference is that even our most conservative political leaders, like Steven Harper or Jason Kenney, are smart enough not to bring it into open conversation. We also have stricter hate speech legislation, so they have to be careful about opening that can of worms in public…

I have a cat named Moo. Does that close the loop?

It’s gotten to the point in Churchill that people are asked to leave their houses/cars unlocked in case someone needs to escape a bear, and there’s a “bear jail” where culprits are held until they can be released far away from the town.

Nuts really are nature’s “Force Quit” for mammals.

“Frozen in Time” by Owen Beattie is really good too. He’s one of the archaeologists who exhumed the graves of sailors and first floated the whole lead poisoning theory.

These aren’t even the best parts of the story. Exhuming graves! Lead poisoning! Cannibalism! Skeletons on the open tundra! Delirious scribbled notes found under rocks! It’s wild.

I believe the reason they weren’t originally looking in Terror Bay was because based on where they thought the ships had been abandoned and the ice flow patterns and currents, it was unlikely to have washed up in there. Then again, the whole 150-odd year saga of the Franklin expedition has been a classic case of…