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I honestly have to wonder if that would have meaning to any one outside Canada, but that is certainly a blunt way to get the point across!

Might be time for some good news. I hugged my two year old niece for the first time this year this past Sunday, and had her for the entire day today, letting her splash around in a kid's pool picked up for the occasion. With Ontario opening social circles up to 10 people, that is enough for my...

I take a slight different approach to that metaphor, as I consider Canada in the feminine (as I do with most every nation whose name ends in a soft vowel). If the UN is a high school, Canada is the daughter of two of the teachers, whose divorce is the subject of local legend. She tries to be...

It hasn't been for several thousand years! I swear, sometimes I think the saying "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" is a good foundation for a religious order of some kind.

Most of the people I know who are complaining about the change are black themselves...

Absolutely! People come here to get away from that kind of insanity.

At the risk of being horrible, I do have to wonder what would happen if the Orange men and Black Lives Matter had a scheduling conflict for their parades.... Humans seem to hold grudges religiously - there are still places in Scotland I should probably never visit due to my family name, in some...

Most of the American conservatives I know are pleased with this decision, so I suspect those who are upset about it are less 'social conservative' and more 'traditionalist.' But I am not going to change definitions midstream. Absolutely, it's a subtle thing to literally interpret the actual...

I disagree, because it seems to me that this was indeed a socially conservative decision, just as much as it is a socially liberal one. From what I've been able to determine, what Gorsuch did was exactly what he said he would do - sticking with the actual text as the paramount consideration...

I'm amused because it is entirely a no-nonsense decision, just going by the cases used to evaluate and render it. It's perfectly reasonable, so I am baffled as to why it is even considered a shock.

I know. I honestly think she would have tried to have my brother killed for his sins (marrying who he did), from what I had been told about her toxic attitudes. It was to the point where she was left to die alone, because my grandfather refused to see her. I can't blame him, but neither can I...

At some point, my favourite response will be to pretend be extraordinarily offended at the assumption that I am the same as the English, as I am so Scottish that my ancestors were the first humans to set foot on the Highlands. My great-grandmother (thankfully dead before I ever had a chance to...

I will admit to the occasional carelessly thought out statement which is perceived as racially charged, but that is simply a consequence of not thinking in language, which resultis in a translation error. For example, my niece's skin is an identical shade to the tea her mother and grandmother...

Honestly, if you are going to do such things, do it right and make sure it can't be traced to you!

Honestly, I am sure that 80% of society's problems - including poverty - would be substantially mitigated should the education system get fixed up. The real problem is the reason why racism exists in the first place - discrimination of individuals outside of one's group is never going to be...

Won't be long before authors aren't even allowed to use the word in period pieces...

I get it. There's a reason why I love the Chinese concept of the Mandate of Heaven - those who rule must not lose it, or they will find themselves replaced.

So basically, it was all "**** it, we've got money" type shenanigans. Certainly paid off!

I imagine what would happen then is that an offer will be made that cannot be refused...

Drones would be far more suitable for search and rescue and wildfire operations than medical evacuations. I would never trust an autonomous machine with any living organism, for reasons that go beyond my familiarity with multiple staples of science fiction. Without a level of face-to-face...