Due to a medical emergency (tons of cop cars but no ambulance in site that I could see) - it only affects the millennium line - passengers are being taken off the train at renfrew and there is a shuttle bus to VCC clark station, and a bus going back to Commerical ( Read more... )

One of the people hit was the absoloutely amazing Chanelle Morgan. I had classes with her last year. She is/was an incredibly talented artist and a brilliant theorist. All the media reports is the she was the fiancee of a doctor. My friend Fernanda puts it well ( Read more... )

From his address on the anniversary of Roe vs Wade ( Read more... )

A topic I'm really interested in - how did this practice move from being a religious symbol to an almost mandatory medical practice?

This slideshow traces historical medical developments surrounding circumcision ( Read more... )

What would happen if Vancouver decided "You know what? Fuck it! The olympics cost too much money and it's absurd and we're just not having them ( Read more... )

Anti-choice Nurse removes women's IUD's "accidentally"

What the fuck? Someone you trust to stick their fingers up your vag then yanks something metal OUT of your uterus.

This nurse is being prosecuted to the nines. Her defence: IUDs are a form of abortion and she doesn't believe in them.

My fellow Americans, today is a ginormous day. You have shown the world that "hope" is not just another word for "bulldog", and that "change" is not only something we can believe in again, but something we can actually google ( Read more... )

Just because I am pro choice doesn't mean I'm pro abortion. I'd rather that no one has to have one, because their birth control options and education helped them prevent any kind of unwanted pregnancy in the first place. But it's a good option to have available just in case ( Read more... )

I love reading. I read "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn and now I'm reading "My Ishmael" - 2 very very interesting books that I would encourage people to read. It takes a look at a lot of cultural things we take for granted tracing them back to some very definite points in time, paired with funny analogies, stories (it's very much a story-book, not a ( Read more... )

Thanks Jon for letting me know about the Big Picture an amazing photo site. Here are the Canadian highlights from 2008


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