I'm going to be taking a break soon. If I'm not doing this, tell me I should be doing this.

"We've already had a judge conclude that there was an attempt to smear our chair...I believe there have been attempts to intimidate me for the purpose of controlling my activities as a member of the [Toronto Police Services] board. I've done some research with past members of the board and people tell me they believe they've been followed, they ( Read more... )

I have an exam this Monday and after that I'm most likely going to be taking a long break from school.
I'm going to try to do the things I want to be doing while financing myself through as much work as I have to put in to whatever jobs I find.
Among other things, I want to be playing music and traveling.

-Got fired from my job today

-Got my OSAP loan reduced to one fifth of what i owe in tuition money since i dropped a course last week

-The TA in one of my remaining courses has decided I never handed in a term paper because my professor lost it

-My mom is selling the house I grew up in and I have to figure out a way to get my stuff out of there as ( Read more... )

"The poor do not choose poverty. It is at once their affliction and our national shame. The children of the poor (and there are many) are the most helpless victims of all, and find even less hope in a society where welfare systems from the very beginning destroy their chances of a better life."

-David Croll, Canada's first Jewish member of ( Read more... )

"When I note that this or that dude is a homophobic, misogynistic asshole, some other dude will tell me it isn’t his fault, he just grew up in a culture in which he was expected to act like a Pantera fan. I get it because I have also spent my entire three decades in a culture that expects me to behave in ways that I find absurd, but I don’t engage ( Read more... )

At the end of an otherwise 'objective,' jargon-heavy and overly detailed report on the administrative processes of Ontario 'Workfare,' the author of the paper just seems to lose it and blurts out, "Reform has little to do with increased programme knowledge. Instead, change is driven by ideological conviction and short-term political gains. The ( Read more... )

Dear computer, fuck off ( Read more... )

Out of step.

"If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don ( Read more... )