Oh, and of course the other proposal being debated is mandatory voting.

I'm... not sure about this one. I can see arguments for both sides (so long as mandatory voting comes with the option to spoil or decline your ballot).

What do we all think?

Well, that has been the experience at the provincial level. Honestly, what I'd prefer is a referendum by ranked ballot to decide which new system they'll implement. The option to retain FPTP would not be on the ballot. Then you run an election under the new system. After the election, you hold a sec...

Yep, glad to hear it wasn't what you were worried about. And I second the hope that your docs manage to pin down what it is.

Gonna stick around with us on the forums? I promise we don't bite.

Well, maybe it's a small thing, Memo, but I like to see you in LRR chat. I like talking to you. I like hearing your perspective on things. And I know I'm not the only one. If you were "replaced," well, I'd lose that. It wouldn't be the same. You couldn't be replaced. That's all you, and on...

korvys: Thank you very kindly. :) My pseudonym is Ix: Oh, no - there's no need to apologize. You haven't offended in any way, and I didn't take you to be advocating for that approach. Your discussion of "manning up," though, prompted me to consider how it had impacted my life. You caused m...

Please do - I think it would be wonderful for you to be able to become a regular here.

Best of luck with everything. And if it would help to talk it out at all, we've got a bunch of great listeners here.

This is probably tangential to the thread, but it relates to something that My pseudonym is Ix said - namely, the "man up and tough it out" attitude. I was bullied fairly mercilessly through elementary and high school. Despite the fact that I went to teachers and the like, and despite the ...

Oh, sure - I meant that I wonder if the downs grew out of rugby league directly, since its rules seem a lot closer to North American football than rugby union's.

And, yep, I'm certainly hoping that the women doing well encourages people to look at the game - it sure did for me!

Admittedly, I may be biased, but I find league to be the more interesting game. The NRL has a worldwide streaming service, and apparently in Canada specifically it's on Roger Sports Net? Here's the info I have: Link Well, as I say, league is just... not a thing in Canada. Rugby is barely played her...

Hm. Bugger. I hear there's a rugby union league in the US that might be looking to expand into Canada in the next year or two, so that's something to watch. I've also been crawling through the TSN and SportsNet websites, looking for anything, but they're kind of frustrating to navigate. I imagine th...

Yeah, I've never seen the film, but I know that my depression is rarely the "totally numb and emotionless" type. I get sad. Really sad. Blubbering, gut-churning, can't-move-my-arms sad. And, yeah, angry - though, I feel it's more frustration than anger. I suppose the lesson is that depress...

As a result of watching the women's rugby sevens Olympic events, I've found that I'm, apparently, a fan of the sport. Yay! Good for me! Unfortunately, I live in Canada. Which means I live in a country where rugby union barely exists, and rugby league pretty much doesn't exist at all. If I want to wa...

Ha! Yeah, that sounds right. All my aunts get really weird when they talk about it. It's their favourite thing ever.

And, yes, there's a lot of "You do it that way? That's stupid!" with it. Ah, traditions...

Here's a traditional Acadian recipe that my family makes. It's called " Rappie Pie " (pronounced "roppy pie") - from the French "râpé" ("grated") referring to the grated potatoes that make up the majority of the dish. This is basically the Acadian national dis...

I think it looks great.

That sounds right, frankly. I mean, years ago, I know she was in the "Be gay all you want, but keep it out of my face" crowd. But since LGBT issues have been covered in a more positive light in the mainstream media over the past decade or so, she's come around to be entirely fine with gay ...

Thanks, folks. I'm not that broken up about it - mostly just perplexed and annoyed. Felt good to be able to vent, though.

But... yeah. I think I'm going to avoid talking to my mother about the (ahem) ins and outs of anal sex.

I've mentioned before that I'm not out as bi with my family. Part of that reason is, frankly, my mother. As it turns out, she has something against bi people, specifically. Great. In the past, she's said things like "they're only doing it for the attention," and has doubted that bisexuals ...

I don't even think Twitter can be sued for it - to post there, you need to agree to legal terms that give Twitter the absolute right to remove your tweets or ban you for any reason whatsoever.

No issue with the decision - human rights legislation in Canada is much stronger than anything like it in the US, and it doesn't violate the Charter. Edit: You know, it's funny. I used to be a free speech absolutist. But after law school, and as I get older, I'm more and more drifting away from that...

Fair - as I said, I don't know enough about what was said, exactly, to be able to judge for myself if it rises to the level of criminality.

Also... to be clear... this has literally nothing to do with freedom of speech. If no government is involved, no constitutional right is infringed. Now, if this Milo person had been charged with a crime, or if a government had somehow censored him, there could be a discussion about freedom of speech...

Huh. That's really interesting, thank you! As I mentioned, my only exposure to the term as derogatory came from Kate Beaton's comic, and her decision to remove the term from it. From her reaction, I figured that people told her it was very offensive. And, since the context she was using it in was bo...

Never heard of Fenian before. As I say, I hadn't, either. At least not as a current slur. Apparently it's entirely unused in North America. I'd say that's a fine use since it's a historical context and there's no other word. As long as it's clear you're using it to describe a historical thing and n...

See, this is a bit complicated. While I want to say I'm 100% on board with what CamelKnack is saying, I have a particular example that's been causing me trouble for some time now. Maybe folks in this thread can help me figure it out. The big issue is cultural context. There is a particular term - &q...