Recent content by RandyMcDonald

On Saturday evening, I went down to the waterfront with my partner and a friend, in the area of Harbourfront Centre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbourfront_Centre It was beautiful out, with plenty of people--individuals, groups of friends, families--walking around, enjoying the view of...

It actually would. Certainly the band members would want to know if the Sullivan children were fine, that they had not been killed or kidnapped or who knows what. The band council choosing to hide this information from everyone, even the band members they are responsible to, would be a shocking...

There is absolutely no reason why the Sipekne'katik band would keep the children's shift in custody to a third party secret. What interest would the band council, or anyone else in a position of power, have in letting the rest of Canada believe that two vulnerable children were missing when they...

I think it is really important to keep in mind that people do not share the same responses to the same traumas. The mother might not be able to do anything, for whatever reason.

Eh. I am skeptical of arguments that are based on assuming people must respond in a single way to a specific trauma, when we know that there can be a whole range of responses. For all we know, the mother might have left because she was never happy living that far out in the countryside with her...

It should be kept in mind that we have no reasons to think this might be a tragic case of two young children going out on what they thought would be an adventure only to find themselves tragically out it their depth. Children, especially young children, can both be capable of more than their...

It is possible that she might be so broken up by the loss and likely death of two of her children that she has been counselled not to speak.

One possibility. I was also thinking of drowning in bodies of water, or perhaps a mishap involving a fall.

I think it is entirely possible that terrible things can happen. This might just be a case of two young children who went out on an adventure and unfortunately got caught by some lethal threat they could not imagine.

<modsnip: Quoted post was removed>I think it also important to emphasize the amount of damage caused by Fiona. When I went back to Prince Edward Island to visit in September of 2023, a year later, I was shocked by the number of trees that were knocked down even in the middle of Charlottetown. So...

How heartbreaking. I am from the Maritimes—PEI, just across the Northumberland Strait from peninsular Nova Scotia—and this is as huge a story as you would expect.

One of the NBC reports mentioned that volunteers had done an extensive search.

That is one narrative that sounds not terribly unbelievable.

Things could be bad. At least as late as the 1970s, drag queens going to perform at a bar on Yonge Street in Toronto--then the heart of the village and also a major street--often had to run past, with other bar visitors, crowds of young people throwing garbage and rotten tomatoes. Sometimes...

There are going to be some interesting questions. 1. How did Pamela get the surgery she did? How did she afford it? 2. What exactly happened to disrupt her links with her family? (I know, it was probably her transition, but still.) What was the theft accusation about? 3. What sorts of...