Beef and pork and Listeria--oh my!

In Canada, there have been problems with our meat lately. If we didn’t have enough to worry about with the North America-wide recall of E. coli-tainted ground beef and the subsequent shutting down of the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alberta—a measure which turned out to be temporary, reversed once the plant showed sufficient improvement in sanitary food practices—there has been another recall, this one more localized completely to Canada.

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Apologize To Your Abuser

After much deliberation, it was finally ruled in the Canadian courts this month—May 2011—that a woman cannot in fact consent to sexual activity if she is unconscious. I repeat: this happened in May 2011.

I was shocked to hear about this development, considering how late it comes. Stories like this are a scary reminder of how male-dominated the idea of “justice” continues to be, even when it comes to reprehensibly violent crimes.

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