Don’t get me wrong here. I’m enjoying the hell out of the schadenfreude of watching some rich entitled twerps reaching the “find out” stage.

But the other part of me sees this and just thinks, can we maybe work on fixing our criminal justice system so that it doesn’t take a half million dollars of bail and constant harassment by police to continue living one’s life BEFORE A CONVICTION happens? Sure, in this case, it sounds pretty cut-and-dried and seriously fuck this dude.

But there are so many people languishing in lockup because they lack the resources for bail in a justice system that presumes guilt for anyone arrested while technically claiming to presume innocence. Waiting in lockup for a year and a half while the courts creep along is grotesque and horrifying.

Again, laughing at these rich assholes, but still feeling like maybe our entire bail system is kinda fucked up.

I am a proponent of MAID, but I find it extremely disturbing that we’re opening up MAID to conditions that aren’t even covered under our social health system. We are openly saying that we consider mental health issues too expensive to treat and would prefer that people with these conditions just die already. Social supports for people with disabilities and expanding health care to include mental health coverage should absolutely be part of this, or we’re just being murderous ghouls as a society.

To be clear, I love this thing and would love to have one if this city had a) infrastructure that could support it and b) enough of a social support system that the constant bike theft wasn’t just a daily part of life here.

“Gone in 60 Seconds” An electric bakfiets story in Winnipeg.