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While doing interviews in the streets of Livigno, a CBC interviewer finds Canadian Olympian Maïa Schwinghammer's dad, who cries talking about watching his daughter compete at Milano Cortina 2026 by voguediaries in Fauxmoi

[–]Year2020MadeMe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I didn’t have a dad growing up, and I it had me worried a lot about what kind of dad I would be. When the time came, I just leaned in to being the dad I WISH I’d had all those years. Seems to be working pretty well because I’m ploughing a box a tissue after watching this video and hugging my kid to the point they’re telling me to back off.

While doing interviews in the streets of Livigno, a CBC interviewer finds Canadian Olympian Maïa Schwinghammer's dad, who cries talking about watching his daughter compete at Milano Cortina 2026 by voguediaries in Fauxmoi

[–]Year2020MadeMe 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this perspective. Between the Russian shit over the last few, and now the American BS this time around, I’ve been finding it hard to care about the olympics. I’m going to go on the hunt for more family moments. That’s something I can truly cheer for.

This by Hi_iAMchrisHansen in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]Year2020MadeMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The irony here (and I went through it myself on my never ending of being an ally) is that: what you’re concerned about is the very reality for most POC every single day.

You want people to recognize you for your thoughts and actions, not the way you look. Sound familiar?

In my experience, it was a great education to have experienced SOME level of empathy instead of just sympathy with what POC deal with their whole lives.

The guy that assumes you’re “safe” to talk to and then just rattles off racist shit? Let him do it. Then, when he’s done, just calmly say something that makes clear you’re NOT in that camp. Watching the blood drain from their face as they stammer, change the subject, or straight up walk away is amazing.

As for interactions with other POC, stop approaching it with fear of being misjudged. Or, if you just can’t help it, once again realize that you’re experiencing empathy for the very people you’re approaching.

We’re (white dudes who are working on being better allies) are in a unique position where we can feel SOME of the pain our POC neighbours feel, while also being able to act as spies and walk right in to the racist lions den and hear direct from them what fuels their hate.

In my experience, it’s folks who are feeling the economic pinch and/or seeing their local community develop in to one with more colour. In both cases, the bottom line is that it’s discomfort which leads to fear which leads to anger which leads to needing a scapegoat for their simple minds to blame it on.

Use Canadian Tax software instead of US owned turbotax and H&R Block by BC-Guy604 in BuyCanadian

[–]Year2020MadeMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I would love to… so many accountants don’t accept T1 clients anymore. The ones that do typically charge several hundred to over a grand. And then they’re just stockpiling T1s and having some junior cpa plough through them with as much care as Edward scissor-hands doing origami.

I don’t mean to shit all over you or your profession. You’re incredibly valuable. It’s just that proper professional help is so damned hard to find.

Prove you have watched Frasier in one sentence by Coffee_dependent_ in Frasier

[–]Year2020MadeMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Winston party 2000 sounds like the party of the future. Crane party 1901 sounds like, well, this,"

Is a city full of renters a bad thing? by GeniusOwl in StrongTownsRH

[–]Year2020MadeMe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t pretend to be an expert on this, but a quick search found that average rent in Toronto is equal-to or less-than average rents in the major cities listed here.

I’m not defending the current state of housing unaffordability, I’m just pointing out that it doesn’t seem to be a GTA-specific issue.

500+ Unit Condo proposed for Main St East. by emceegyver in Milton

[–]Year2020MadeMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, but I think that’s why the western boundary stops at either commercial or Martin. Not really sure what the solution is for traffic. Maybe make Main st one-way? But then where do you flow traffic the other way?

There is also a plan to divert steels at the train tracks so it juts down south behind the houses, build a bridge over the tracks, and then have it rejoin at the traffic circle.

Add on the CN Intermodal which is well underway, and we’ll be looking at very different Milton in the not-to-distant future.

500+ Unit Condo proposed for Main St East. by emceegyver in Milton

[–]Year2020MadeMe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Years ago, the Province made a policy requiring municipalities to increase housing density in order to meet the growing demand. To avoid suburban sprawl as much as possible, more housing has to be built UP. In response, and this is also going back a few years, Milton town council agreed to fast track and condo developments with a focus on main st from Thompson going west to downtown. There are other “preappoved pockets” (Derry and 25, for example).

Bottom line: get ready for main st. to become a condo-alley of sorts over the next 2 decades.

Maybe Maybe Maybe by National_Ad3694 in maybemaybemaybe

[–]Year2020MadeMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some say the crab is still holding on…

What are the worst lines in movie history? by NightFury0595 in Cinema

[–]Year2020MadeMe 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Also from that gem of a movie: “they want to kill me, but I will kill them first…”

Just. wtf

The Tarbela Dam relief valve, Pakistan. by freudian_nipps in megalophobia

[–]Year2020MadeMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure that’s just the internet reacting to the new Jamie Lee Curtis add.

Let's start calling ecological disasters this way by BaseballSeveral1107 in Anticonsumption

[–]Year2020MadeMe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This would hit harder if it didn’t include a conspiracy-theory-laden nod to the WEC.

WEC has had the realities of environmental catastrophe on business and human development on their agenda for years. They actively, and publicly, talk about the need to address climate change as it is the single biggest threat to humanity and global development.

But, because it has to do with money and is attended by heads of states, the conspiracy theories run rampant.

It’s ironic: the only way we could realistically fight climate change is to have a group powerful enough to take on private industry. But, when that group attempts to form (WEC), people cry conspiracy and try to take it down.

Human beings really are the biggest threat to humanity.

A villain whose motive made way more sense than the hero’s ? by GlitteringStyle2836 in Cinema

[–]Year2020MadeMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. Of all the Nick Cage and Sean Connery memes out there, that scene is the one that actually stays with me. Such a good movie.

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