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The students in Quebec have massive balls.
I have had trouble understanding what the student protests were about in Quebec. I thought maybe it was a little bit of the French “je ne sais quoi” and a popular consensus to revolt. Don’t get me wrong, I love that they have stepped up and put their education on the line. Having attended UBC - Okanagan and the U of A and accepted tuition increases at both I can tell you what happend. Nothing. Maybe there were some letters sent. I never wrote one. The Engineering Faculty at the U of A actually welcomed and encouraged a tuition increase. I vote in student elections and pay attention to what they are doing with my union fees. The CFS has not been the best in recent years so to see what is happening Quebec is heart warming.
News outlets such as the CBC and the National Post are kind of doing a shitty job in explaining exactly why Quebec students are protesting. Check out Andrew Marshall’s article in the Coop media de Montreal on the protests, very well done and laid out. My favorite line Andrew states “it is fine for police to wear gas masks as they shoot chemical agents at Quebec’s youth, but studens cannot attempt to even meagerly protect themselves by covering their faces.” For the major news outlets to say that this is only a minority is bullshit. I think that these old people are scared shitless. Look at the numbers of students out there, in the streets saying fuck you for making me take on this debt. I, and I’m assuming the students in Quebec as well, want to use my education to change what you have been prescribing.
You need to see this documentary. It will change you.
Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING?
Kids: A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
An accident could have changed everything.
“It’s hard at times, living in the shadow of a former self. And knowing that one day, you’ll be a completely different person.”
“Tell me about it.”
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GET RAD!
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Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a KKK protest in a north Georgia city back in the 80s. The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a Klan hood and robe. I have stared at this picture and wondered what must have been going through that Trooper’s mind. Before the Trooper is an innocent child who is being taught to hate him because of the color of his skin. The child doesn’t understand what he is being taught, and at this point he doesn’t seem to care. Like any other child his curiosity takes hold and he wants to explore this new thing that this man is holding probably because he can see his reflection in it and that’s a neat thing and he wants to check it out. In this picture I see innocence mixed with hate, the irony of a black man protecting the right of white people to assemble in protest against him, temperance in the face of ignorance, and hope that racism can be broken because this young boy may remember that a black man smiled at him once and he didn’t seem so bad after all.
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The Dancing Angels
A close cousin to the Weeping Angels
but so much deadlier
Don’t Blink
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We got on TMZ because Robin Williams showed up.
But, alas, because they are TMZ they got something wrong.
Robin didn’t do close to an HOUR. He did about 7 minutes. Also, he was just there to hang out and shop for comics with his daughter. We asked if he wanted to go up.
And it was great!
I wouldn’t call them aggressively heterosexual, Jeremy had an excellent discussion with Will Young about flowers.
I do believe that all three of the boys are as aggressively heterosexual as they like to present themselves—and yet nothing will ever convince me that they’re not all just a little bit in love with each other.
-Anonymous
Riding 5900km in 90 hours for Lou Gehrig’s disease
Source: Iron Ride for ALS
My uncle Hal is riding his motorcycle across Canada to raide money and awareness for ALS. Anne, my mom, was diagnosed with it shortly after I was born. She has learnt not just how to live with it but strive. She improves everyone that is around her. She has a better sense of community then most people who can still walk, talk and breathe on their own. All year long she organizes and collects much needed essentials for the Kelowna Women’s Shelter (my post about it here).
All donations to Iron Ride are received by the VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation. Link at the top of this post.
If you want to help my mom help the Women’s Shelter, link above. The Kelowna Women’s Shelter can also be reached here.
Montreal police and protesters rage through the night as tuition march turns violent
Montreal is waking up to a morning of smashed windows, vandalized cars and questions about how a protest degenerated into yet another violent clash between police and demonstrators.
Anger over a short lived effort to put an end to the tuition crisis through negotiations bubbled over Wednesday night when a hastily-organized demonstration turned ugly and police used batons, pepper spray and percussion bombs to disperse the crowd.
After two hours of peaceful protest, police declared the march illegal and the situation unravelled quickly. A car was set on fire at a major downtown intersection and chaos ensued as the police started to push the crowd back using whatever tools they had in their arsenal. (Photos: Dario Ayala, Allen McInnis/Postmedia News)
