I have one of these! I found it right outside my house in Kensington Market. I'm thinking of putting it back out there now that I've listened to it, especially since I already know all about Bill C-61. I was going to email you guys about it, but someone beat me to the punch!

beautiful!

rosethornn, yeah, i agree in the first case. obviously the intent is humourous barbs at the sorts of homophobia/sexism/transphobia that happens in the military... but in the case of the one with the dog it just comes off as "ooo hahaha men who dress up as women are dangerous haha blackie bite its face off!"

at least to me.

Takuan: A hell of a lot of people. My parents, for one, unfortunately.

I just cannot believe that a government that is currently averaging indebting their university undergrads $30,000 and climbing could fathom this sort of non-sensical garbage. Out of their fucking post-secondary savings?!

Is there any other information you could link me to, I just actually cannot understand how this is logical. I love writing angry letters and making phone calls to my politicians.

i thought it was quite amusing until they kept on resorting to transphobic jokes every time a woman is in a scene... i never knew that big dogs named Blackie hated transvestites.

i do love old children's books, but 1940s-50s "getting to know your changing body" ones will always be my favourite. full of laughs and no need for doctoring!

yeah, i feel you on that one sputnik. that's gotta be a lot of work. i wonder if they can dim the lights in that thing, or how if they have a specific roomier more accomodating PET scanner for these sorts of "scientific" experiments...

#23, "behaving suspiciously" or "being brown" are the things I think are at stake here. as other commenters have noted, would their "behaviour" have been deemed suspicious had they been blonde and blue eyed? most likely not.

thinking critically about how racist ideologies are imbedded in our society when this harmless behaviour can be assumed to be terrorism based on their appearance is what is important in this discussion, i think.

and speaking for myself, i'm quite sick of the fear-mongering that goes on in our culture to think that we should call the authorities every time we see something suspicious, or, in some people's cases, someone brown.