2 ways Melchizedek Priesthood holders are saviours

Last week, I ordained our 18-year-old son as an elder in the Melchizedek Priesthood. This was something that was important … Continue reading 2 ways Melchizedek Priesthood holders are saviours

First Nations, Race

Actually, “genocide” is the right term

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was released in June 2019. It’s over 1,000 pages long and comes in 2 volumes.

Even though it has 231 calls for justice, people got hung up on the report’s use of the word genocide. Critics of the term argue that since Indigenous people in Canada weren’t rounded up into concentration camps and executed by the millions, as was done to Jewish people and others during the Holocaust, we can’t use genocide to refer to Indigenous experience. They also say that what happened to Indigenous people doesn’t parallel the Rwandan genocide, another reason to not use the word.

Except these critics are wrong.

Gay, LGBTQ, Sex

Straight people should be uncomfortable

You know how every time Pride Month comes around with the parades and coloured crosswalks, you start seeing comments like, “I don’t care if you’re gay, just don’t shove your sexuality in my face.”?

Well, I’ve been thinking about that.

Work

Workers don’t stand together anymore

It used to be that when one group of workers were being targeted by company owners, other workers would stand in solidarity with them.

Gay, LGBTQ, Race, Sex

Not unfriending people is a privilege

About a year or so ago, I wrote a Facebook post where I mentioned that I was unhiding all the people and pages that I had previously hidden, that I was unsanitizing my own news feed, unsiloing it.

I’ve been contemplating that position recently. I’m still doing this, trying to expose myself to different viewpoints and trying to not dismiss viewpoints contrary to my own.

However.

Uncategorized

Why I don’t catcall women

You know, I have no memories of catcalling women or sexually propositioning women. I know now that these things are wrong, but I didn’t always know that.

I used to think it was acceptable. Society and my peers taught me that. But for some reason, I’ve never done it.

Families, Prayer, Scriptures

Prayer, scriptures, and FHE don’t keep kids in the church

I used to believe that if families prayed daily together, read scriptures daily together, and held family home evening weekly together, it’d keep the children in the church.

I don’t believe that anymore.

Economy

Tax cuts don’t lead to indirect job growth either.

I’ve been engaging with conservatives recently when they’ve been claiming that tax breaks lead to more jobs.

As I’ve shown them evidence that companies who receive tax breaks don’t hire more people when compared to hiring prior to the tax break, I’ve noticed an interesting trend: they start shifting the goalposts. Their claim moves to one of indirect job creation.

Economy, Taxation

Tax cuts don’t create more jobs

Conservatives love it when corporations make money. They love it even more when it’s a result of lower taxes.

They rationalize lower corporate taxes by claiming that it will lead to more jobs and indirectly to more government revenue.

Except that’s just a myth.

Politics

Conservative governments can’t balance budgets

Don’t believe conservatives when they tell you that Justin Trudeau is piling debt onto Canadians. I mean, he is, but not in the way conservatives make it seem. 75% of Canada’s 2017–18 debt was created by only 2 prime minsters: Mulroney & Harper. Continue reading Conservative governments can’t balance budgets