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I understand that. And I guess I'm not convincing anyone in this thread, but, things like this, and how the article gushes about Elizabeth's 'brooch warfare', I fail to see how these are things that Canadians ought to feel good about or empowered by. They don't benefit us in any way.

Canada needs allies now probably more than ever in its history. What we see here coming from the monarchy is not a meaningful gesture of alliance. That's what I'm bitter about. It's monarchs doing what monarchs do after they've squeezed all the benefit from colonial conquest - they bandy meaningless symbols about. That benefits them, because conveniently, it costs them nothing to 'stay out of politics'.

As a Canadian, it's truly frightening to see world leaders reluctant to simply say the words 'we stand behind Canada'.

What does the word 'Commonwealth' even mean if the British monarchy can't say that and mean it.

I'm really surprised by this development. The fact that provinces sat down with Ottawa and agreed on something related to liquor makes me think whatever the proposed plan is, it's probably not transformative...

Devil is in the details of course, but I'm interested to see what this actually looks like.

When I started out, I bought a few spools of M3D, and they were really good, so I buy it whenever I can. Works really well for me, and it's as good or better than similarly priced filament.

That's fair.

Assuming you're an Edmontonian, the ice climbing world championship at the end of Feb could be good for some entertainment. Have to savour the few benefits of living inside the equivalent of a blast freezer.

Good luck in your search for that positivity, stranger!

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but...

I've caught most of their games for the past few years. 0 this season.

Honestly I'm still really bummed that they hired Stan Bowman as GM at the beginning of the season. It soured me on the team, and on the NHL more broadly. For survivors of sexual assault, I think it's an unpardonable situation.

I don't want to feel that way, but, I can't help it. Just can't watch the games anymore, even if they're free. Bowman's hiring was a message of empowerment to abusers.

Thanks for posting this. I was wondering about a way to filter posts.

The unsubscribe button... it does nothing!

Be careful about mentioning who you bank with on the internet, using an account that anyone can browse your comment history.

I might be the only one, but I really liked the ending of Mass Effect 3. I appreciated that at the end, there are things that you can't save, all the choices you've made in aggregate sometimes don't make the difference you think they will, and at this grand level, maybe nothing you do will feel like the 'right' thing to do. I thought there was a really unique, deep sort of meta-philosophy about that.

I also played the games back-to-back over the course of a few weeks, not as they were released. Part of me wonders if it would be possible to have an ending to the trilogy that satisfied the sort of player who played the games over the long arc of their release and spent years casting their imaginations toward an ending.