Before the Artificers it was the rangers who were “stealing the stealth thunder from the rogue.” Heck, I remember in 3rd ed when people said the Bard was “stealing the Rogue’s lunch” because their skill mastery made them decent with traps.

whistles quietly in Armorer Artificer, stealth build

… yes… not fair at all…

I have to say, I’m a bit shocked that we have to accomodate publicly funded Catholic schools as a charter obligation “out of respect for francophone culture” when you don’t even consider it a part of your culture.

Until very recently we’ve all been under some pretty scary religious leadership of one denomination or another. Some of us still are (as many of us in Alberta will happily admit). That said, I think it’s a bridge to far to associate all religion with its worst, extremist elements, regardless of which faith it happens to be.

As far as the “private” school thing, at least here Catholic schools aren’t even technically private. They’re public, provincially funded schools with semi-autonomous regional school boards, with religious oversight from the local Diocese. It’s referred to as the “seperate” school system, which is entirely different than the “private” (aka pay-to-play) school system, which is different still from the “charter” school system which most other religious schools fall under (Lutheran, Pentecostal, Jewish, etc.).

I admit to not being as familiar with how Quebec handles their Catholic schools. Is it not run the same there?

Those are constitutionally mandated, but if you want to back an amendment, I’m down.

Protest movements are a slow solution, but it’s the only way to shift from a general sentiment to a movement. These early stage protests are unlikely to have much impact, but it’s a way to meet others and build the core infrastructure for larger and more effective protests down the road. It doesn’t make a difference overnight, it often takes decades to build enough momentum to affect change.

It’s not going to stop Trump today, but this isn’t going to end with him either. It’s agonizingly slow and difficult, but it’s not pointless and it’s a hell of a lot more than sitting back and cynically doing nothing.

I’m not a fan of religious schools either, but they’re not going away anytime soon. You want to try for a constitutional amendment to get rid of them, good luck. As long as they’re a fact of life, the least we can do is teach our kids that no one creed is particularly better or worse than any other.

Never been in a Catholic school I take it? Here in Alberta we have publicly funded religious schools all over the place and access to Catholic schools are a constitutional requirement. Even in fully secular public schools, good luck taking any kind of music or performing arts without having to sing some creed’s hymns or performing a play with religious themes. I’m actually really thrilled when a school has some religious diversity and isn’t afraid to include some Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Indigenous representation in the day-to-day, because it gets so monotonous to have so much Christian representation and nothing else.

I don’t know about Quebec, but I’d rather my kids get used to the idea that no one of any creed is particularly terrible (or has a monopoly on virtue). As for head scarves, I have no more objection to Islamic women wearing them than I object to Hutterite or Mennonite women wearing them. They’re wearing a hat, not reading scriptures.The whole “religious symbols” thing seems like a lot of pearl-clutching over nothing.

Yes, we’ve never had any kind of religious representation in schools like crucifixes and rosaries or religious figures teaching classes…🙄

Y’all need to fight them with everything possible to avoid being screwed like we were.

As an Albertan, I promise some of us are trying. Keep a close eye on BC, because I hear they have a BC “Prosperity Project” now too to swat down. Our hands are full trying to contain the damage here.

The only Nazi involved is the one running Moscow.