Please no. Like yes, leave Ontario to replace Poilievre, please, but good god don’t win a federal election.

I kept mine home Monday and Tuesday.

As if it’s legal in his home state…

I quite enjoy being able to send my children to school without a bulletproof backpack.

Is he really still going on about this

I still have to parent but I’m not going to work. I actually kind of like it when my kids and I are all sick at the same time because we all just lie down together and watch cartoons or play video games.

It really has that blurry ai thing to it

Is that popeye

I’m Canadian, so not American, but for me it’s because I don’t have the same grandparent support my parents had. We had to move far away to be able to afford a place to live and now we have no help. My siblings and I practically lived at our grandparents’ houses, and so did all of our cousins. I hear a lot about how uninvolved grandparents are lately, whether by choice or by practicality (the distance, for us).

So where in Canada do people have this accent, anyway? I grew up in the GTA, and I’ve been to Sudbury, Calgary, Montreal and Quebec City but I’ve never heard the stereotypical Canadian accent. Do I just not notice it? Do I sound like this??

Seriously. “You called out our bullying you, and that hurts our feelings!”

Personally, I love chatty extroverts. They just talk at me and I get to sit there in silence and daydream. They don’t care if you’re listening.

As a Canadian, I love that your conservative leader also lost his seat!

Ugh I still remember the idiot in Brampton accusing him of being part of the “Muslim Brotherhood”.

I would be surprised if it wasn’t.

They’ll get the ties to your country through you, like all immigrant and first-gen kids do. They’ll just be closer to the culture they live in. Speak your native language, feed them traditional food from your country, show them music or movies from your country, things like that. Take them on trips to visit your country, if that’s doable. I’m first-generation Canadian with Portuguese parents and through things like that, I’ve always felt Portuguese. Definitely more Canadian, but also Portuguese.

I’ve been using LibreOffice and its predecessor, OpenOffice, for yeeeeeears. Maybe 20 years? I have no complaints.

My kids are still youngish enough that I can get away with limiting their internet access to screens I can see and hear. They have the TV in the living room and an old laptop beside dad’s desk. I tell them that there are a lot of bad things on the internet and I need to be able to help them if they find something bad by accident. Whenever they stumble on something questionable, I tell them why I don’t like it and we look for something else. Luckily they really don’t argue about it (yet, I’m sure). I feel like it’s working, though. They seem to be developing a healthy relationship with tech and screens. They love to watch arts and crafts tutorials on youtube and have been teaching themselves to draw and play piano, and they’re actually doing well!

Was going to go this morning but I’m too sick. Yay. Hopefully tomorrow.

I miss living with family. Lived with my inlaws for a few years and then with my grandmother for another few before moving out on our own. We’re selling our house soon and moving back with our inlaws. I’ve never been so burnt out and exhausted and I’m so looking forward to having extended family around to help with our kids again.