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Long slow shame fap
I have but one quibble worth mentioning about the following article, and that is that it's title is, on the one hand so bloody obvious a statement it makes me want to do a long slow clap in honour of the copy editor. If you wanted something to properly sum up the heinousness of 4channers criminal attempts to sexually blackmail Emma Watson
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Loathsomeness in Longueuil
The following image of an offensive note targeting someone who flew the rainbow flag on their home is making the rounds on French-speaking Facebook and Twitter in Quebec (it was apparently affixed to the balcony of an apartment in Longueuil, a populous suburb on the south shore that's a short subway ride from downtown Montreal): Warning, this is ( Read more... ) -
Confronting body shaming by another commuter on Montreal's Métro
This is how I started my week, and it's stuck with me to the point I decided I should go ahead and share it publicly. This originally appeared in my Facebook July 22: I am SO mad right now! File this one under slut/body shaming ( Read more... ) -
Montréal civic by-law P6: Sorry SPVM, but there is such thing as a right to protest
An acquaintance of mine recently reiterated his gung-ho attitude of support for Montréal's anti-protest by-law P-6, based on the ill-conceived and thankfully now defunct Loi 78. While condemning the activities of the protester known as Anarchopanda, he expressed consternation with protesters' refusal to comply with the precondition of declaring ( Read more... ) -
Uncovering the shape of language in the brain
Maybe you'd have to be a linguist/have linguistics/neurolinguistics training to appreciate as much, but this is SO cool! :oD -
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Troubled N.B. teen shown in dramatic prison video (CBC)
And so, when she'd made life hard enough on her guards that rescue/intervention became too difficult and too dangerous a proposition, they left her there to die. Did the system fail, or did Ashley Smith win -- and is there a difference in this instance? Sad beyond sad . . . -
For democracy's sake, say 'NO' to strategic prorogation of Canada's Parliament!
If you're reading this, I hope that you just might care enough to act in defense of democracy in Canada ( Read more... ) -
The truth bubbles up to the surface like gases from a bloated corpse. . . .
Rice raised Iraq hours after 911 attacks, inquiry told (CBC News)Okay. This suggests that members of the Bush administration had wrongly fingered Sadam Hussein's regime mere hours after the 9/11 attacks, about a year and a half before the invasion of Iraq would begin. We now know that this decision was based on highly questionable military ( Read more... ) -
Canada, the true North strong and free to be a pack of hypocrites
Lesbian U.S. deserter appeals for refugee statusI wish her good luck and every success in her legal battle to remain in Canada. Smith/James' claim strikes me as perfectly justifiable given the spirit of the Canadian refugee process. She fled the U.S. army to escape persecution and a real threat of worse to come after trying to get out of the army ( Read more... ) -
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St-Pierre residents lobby for return of freighter link with NewfoundlandI would of course say something of this sort, having studied there at the Francoforum for three months*, nonetheless: Bonne chance aux Saint-Pierrais et les Miquelonais pour cet effort!** Then again, it should be an easy enough opinion to be held by anyone from this province, ( Read more... )