I have a lot more respect fory Jodie W-R’s integrity than Christian F’s.

That would be fine if the book was to be an objective, historical approach. But how likely do you think that is, as opposed to a self-serving screed to push her own agenda?

Are we going to get an honest critique of the Liberal politicians with whom she worked and politicked? An exposé of things that should have been but weren’t, or that shouldn’t have been but were? People who should or shouldn’t have been successful, in either case to the detriment of the country?

Put simply, I don’t see that there could possibly be anything of value in this kind of first-person account.

I hate to tell you, but whatever the other company you went to is, it’s almost certainly Luxottica, the same people who make Ray-Ban now.

Why don’t Mennonites have sex standing up?

Because it could lead to dancing.

(Explanation: some Mennonite sects believe that dancing is inappropriate. Sex is not considered dirty, as long as it is within a marriage.)

That’s exactly what I mean. I remember reading that article. Remains of children have been found on residential school sites, but it doesn’t appear that those were related to the potential graves reported by ground penetrating radar.

ground radar studies are unable to definitively establish if what they are reporting is human remains

What is stopping investigations from actually determining if these are graves, and if so exhuming them and returning them to their communities?

What bothers me is that I haven’t seen any reporting on actual discoveries of human remains at any of these sites.

I think that the residential schools were a shameful part of white Canadian society’s desire to wipe out indigenous peoples. There is no doubt about that. But after more than five years why have we not seen even a partial exploration of the sites? If there are remains, let’s at least get them back to their communities.

Meanwhile, one of the places in Ontario (Grassy Narrows) has lost its funding after receiving more than 3 million, because they have not provided any audited financial statements for how the money was used so far.

The best way to combat denialism is to provide the proof of these claims. I want a complete reckoning of everything that was done, and how the native pupils suffered, so that it can never again be denied.

No fair, that’s Dartmouth’s favourite son listening to Kingston’s favourite sons!

And I have about 20 USB-A flash drives, up to 128GB, that I should just toss in the trash because…why exactly? Because they are “old”?

Next thing you know, they are going to want English speakers to say Roma instead of Rome, Napoli instead of Naples, and so on.

The definition of dumb is very elastic.

There is one summer student who came to work at my software company. He was in a very specialized and elite program at a top-flight Canadian university. Both his parents were professors at this university.

One day he came to our boss, and said that his family always went to Europe for 2 weeks in the summer, and he needed time off. My boss explained that he had been hired because we wanted to do a special project during the summer, and it would be very difficult to not have him on the team for a significant part of it.

My boss asked the student when the vacation was going to start. The student replied, “tomorrow”.

At first, my boss was angry, but then realized that the student actually had no understanding that this was an unusual and onerous request. That’s about the time I started learning about autism (and later realized that I was somewhere on the spectrum as well, just not as far along it).

I was halfway through Googling this phrase before I remembered who said it and where. Well played!

Come to Quebec, where electricity is about USD $0.05/kWh. And over 99% of that is renewable (hydroelectric)!

We live on the border of Quebec and Ontario. For some reason, Giant Tiger in Quebec carries Indigo, but in Ontario they’ve never heard of it.

It’s even more of a no-brainer in Quebec, where gasoline is almost $2/litre (USD $5.50 per US gallon), but electricity is only about $0.07/kWh.

Lack of joy. I’m struggling with that myself, at the moment. I find things that make me content, or even happy, but nothing more.

There’s a Canadian company called indigo that produces machines that can use SodaStream equipment. They also sell their own, so you can avoid SodaStream completely. Even better, they are significantly cheaper!

When have the big banks not reported healthy profits? They (with their political flunkeys) have created a system which has been designed to allow them to extract large amounts of money from the Canadian public with little or no risk.

So I’m guessing this means that all political leaders at the provincial and federal level now have top secret clearance, right?

Umm, PP why haven’t you raised your hand?

There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you.’ Fool me—you can’t get fooled again."

George W. Bush – Nashville, Tennessee, September 17, 2002.

I have taught in Quebec schools this year, the first full year that cell phones were banned. I have not seen a single student using a phone. The teachers at my schools have also been unanimous in saying that there has been a significant improvement in the student attention, as well as communication and activity between students.