Ugh do I haaaave toooooo😩

The source you’re citing appears to be making the opposite point: that 24 weeks is the viability threshold. Other sources (like this one: https://healthcare.utah.edu/womenshealth/pregnancy-birth/preterm-birth/when-is-it-safe-to-deliver) say it’s more like 40-50%, and talk about how when babies DO survive birth at 24 weeks or earlier, it’s often with extreme and life-threatening defects.

If what concerns you is the question of viability, I suggest you look here: https://healthcare.utah.edu/womenshealth/pregnancy-birth/preterm-birth/when-is-it-safe-to-deliver abortions in the third trimester are incredibly rare,(1% of the total) and when they do occur it’s often due to medical necessity. This makes sense when you think about it: why would a woman go through the genuine effort of six months of pregnancy only to change her mind frivolously in the home stretch? Indeed, it’s those medically necessary abortions, which more moderate pro-lifers may deem acceptable, that are most endangered by focus on the supposed murder of nearly-at-term fetuses.

I respect that many pro-lifers come from a place of love, even though I disagree with their conclusions. But there is also a strong element of the pro-life movement that is less concerned about love and more concerned about control of women’s bodies, and reducing their role in society to that of child-bearing alone. The latter is adept at misusing fringe examples as a way to pull at the heart strings of the former, to the point of unreason. I hope you belong to that former group, and you come to see that true compassion includes the mothers and women whose lives are changed irrevocably by pregnancy, and who are best-positioned to choose for themselves what’s right.

And I barely speak any French and have, over thousands of instances, NEVER been denied service. Nor do I know anyone who speaks only English and has lived in montreal—and I know many—who has been. At worst, one will have people switch to English because the French is bad OR you will have people unable to speak English who are a bit annoyed at having to use pidgin to muddle through a coffee order. Not only would that be an impractical paradigm in a city with 1 million English speakers, it would be an absurd way for businesses to conduct themselves. What people DO get angry about is being forced to speak English when they are customers, or the expectation that they switch to English. And as far as les métropolitains, well, I’ve never met a quebecois who couldn’t understand French from France, though I’ve meant plenty of French people who sneer at québécois.

Of course it isn’t — but I lived in Quebec for four years and was a tourist there many times in my youth with my Anglophone-only family. You made a sweeping point about Americans being disliked and a factually incorrect statement about language laws. As far as my experience goes, and the experiences of the many other people I know from the US who’ve lived there, Quebec is a wonderful, safe, and welcoming place for Americans to visit, almost all the time. You may well have experienced something negative, but your extrapolation is unfounded and slightly defamatory. All places have shitty people, and sometimes tourists get the shaft— it’s not unique to QC. Additionally, it shows your ignorance of Quebec culture and history to act as though their reluctance to pander to Anglo or France-French myopia indicates hatred or an inhospitable nature. And while your experience of antisemitism may be real, it is neither here nor there in respect to the original point, which is that Americans generally are somehow unwelcome.

So then what does that have to do with hating Americans

Absolutely untrue. While there are “anti-outsider” sentiments to be found anywhere, as long as you are a respectful and polite tourist, Quebec is as friendly and safe a place to travel as you can find. Also, Quebec is French-speaking, not officially bilingual. If they have English service, it’s as a courtesy to their customers—only French is required. Would you expect universal English service in Paris? What you might be experiencing as “not liking Americans” is frustration that you’re in their country speaking a foreign language and assuming they should accommodate you universally. That said, in Montreal it is virtually impossible to find a place that won’t serve an English speaker, even if it takes a little bit of patience on the latter’s part.

A nepotism hire and intellectual lightweight, but don’t vote for the person vote for the policies. I personally think his policies are bad, but it sounds like you don’t. Because he’s not an outright fascist zealot, I see no reason not to support him if you like what he says he wants to achieve (weighed against what is actually possible for him to achieve). It will never match with your beliefs/values 100%, but that’s what a democracy looks like.

Yeah not only is xc skiing equipment cheaper, but lots of towns maintain their own trails free to use (Conway is an example) and schools with teams often allow the public to use their trails when not using them for training/meets