Canadian government wants to triple the country’s population to 100 million over the next 90 years. In order to do that, they will ramp up their extremely successful “Professional Immigration” program. ( It’s the program that brought me to Canada, by the way.) 

450,000 of highly educated people with a good knowledge of English and French and enough money to self- fund will be admitted annually.
This is a brilliant plan. I’m shocked that the government of the silly Trudeau fellow thought of something so smart. With the global warming, more and more of Canada’s enormous territory will become habitable, and it makes sense to fill it with people who will push the country far ahead of competition. 

This is one of the things that weakened national governments can do to preserve legitimacy: anticipate the trends of the future and ride them. It’s great to see that somebody is thinking long term and doesn’t get stuck on the trivial electoral needs of the next 5 minutes.

All stores are filled with Christmas decorations and the discounted remnants of Halloween stuff. It’s like Thanksgiving has been wiped out. I wanted to refresh my stock of Thanksgiving decorations but there’s nothing at all. I love Thanksgiving. WTF?

One of the stranger things Soviet people like to eat was plain pasta that would be boiled within an inch of its life, washed under a tap, and sprinkled with sugar to make a combined main course and dessert. My family was never as poor as all that so I didn’t get to eat this particular dish but it sounds disgusting, especially knowing the quality of Soviet pasta and the pasta-washing practices that were used.

This is the kind of shit I hate passionately and profoundly:

Eliminating grant deadlines is a feminist issue. Why? Because when Life Happens, as it often does outside of work, women are left picking up the pieces. And this affects whether women can meet those deadlines – or at least whether they can meet those deadlines while maintaining their sleep and health.

Feminism, for this idiot, is not doing something to share piece- picking more equally to ensure that both women and men don’t live stunted lives. No, her version of feminism is to make sure that women continue to do as much piece – picking as possible. 

Of course, moaning uselessly about evil grant deadlines is easier than asking what she can do to stop being an eager little piece – picker.

I don’t write grants and have no opinion on grant deadlines. It’s this ridiculous mentality I object to. As my professor of gender studies used to say, “It falls to women to clean toilets so let’s make the work of cleaning toilets more valued.” When I asked which part of the female body turned toilet cleaning into women’s work, he got pouty.