namaste friends posted:

you konw what's not funny? air farce

namaste friends posted:

you konw what's not funny? air farce

namaste friends posted:

I love Workin Moms

Presence posted:

all CanCon sucks except stuff made in Quebec

flakeloaf posted:

You'd think with a whole year to prepare, their NYE special wouldn't be so actively anti-funny and yet every year they prove me an idiot for thinking they could do better.

namaste friends posted:

I love Workin Moms

DariusLikewise posted:

season 1 was good, season 2 is steaming garbage

namaste friends posted:

this post is awful jfc

Reince Penis posted:

oh please I see worst posts than that every five minutes

https://twitter.com/juicexAntos/status/968704294018060294

Stickarts posted:

Where does this fall on the park loving spectum

infernal machines posted:

DariusLikewise posted:

this is peak Canadian conservatism

https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/968456242086555648

"The budget projection in the Liberals platform doesn't match what the actual budget says 3 years later! CROOKS"

the CPC is a completely ineffectual opposition party

namaste friends posted:

gross



lmao

James Baud posted:

I wanna see the results from this polling station in the 2019 election.

Can we get a 78-0 conservative sweep?

namaste friends posted:

gross



lmao

quote:

In this 2013 photo, a placenta is prepared for a new mother. Human placentophagia, saving your placenta after birth and eating it, is a controversial practice promoted by mothers swearing by its health benefits — despite a scarcity of research. Francisco Kjolseth / AP
The practice of consuming your own placenta got another boost this week when Khloe Kardashian announced that she plans to consume her placenta after giving birth next month.

Whether blended into smoothies or freeze-dried and packed into gel caps to be taken like a vitamin, proponents believe eating your placenta helps with postpartum depression, replenishes vitamins and restores hormones.

But Dr. Chelsea Elwood, reproductive infectious diseases fellow at B.C. Women’s Hospital, says there has never been a study that supports these claims. “This has become popular since the 1970s, and it’s controversial because there is no scientific evidence to support the claims that are made around its benefit.”

Elwood will be speaking on the practice of placentophagy at the Perinatal Services Conference in Vancouver. The conference runs Thursday and Friday and covers issues in perinatal care, including mothers at risk, childbirth fear, working with mothers who struggle with addiction and, yes, eating your placenta.

Elwood will also address “vaginal seeding.” Vaginal seeding is the practice of rubbing vaginal fluids on your newborn’s face and in their mouth after caesarean birth.

The practice, said Elwood, is based on the belief that infants born by caesarean section are not be exposed to the normal vaginal flora, and are potentially more vulnerable to long-term diseases such as asthma.

But vaginal seeding could potentially expose an infant to harmful bacteria.

“At this point we have no idea if when you are doing that you are transferring the right bacteria,” said Elwood.

No causal link has been established between vaginal flora and long-term health outcomes, but B.C. Women’s Hospital is conducting a large clinical study called the Maternal Micro-Biome Legacy Project, which will look at whether mode of delivery, caesarean or vaginal, does in fact influence an infant’s gut microbiome later in life.

When it comes to eating the placenta, the Centre for Disease Control recently reported that in 2016, a newborn infant in Oregon became seriously ill after her mother consumed her own encapsulated freeze-dried placenta.

The child had been infected with Group B Streptococcus, and the same bacteria was found in the placenta capsules. The report found that the encapsulation process does not eradicate infectious pathogens.

There are a half-dozen local companies advertising placenta encapsulation online in Vancouver.

“Placenta encapsulation and consumption is unregulated and we have no understanding of what could be happening from a safety perspective when it’s handled,” said Elwood. “It’s a risk of harm with no evidence of benefit.”

When it comes to advising her own patients, Elwood sticks to the science: “I talk to them about the absence of evidence of benefit, and the evidence of potential harm and it’s their choice at the end of the day.”

On its website, B.C. Women’s Hospital guidelines remind parents who want to take their placenta home that it must be stored in a cool place, but not in a refrigerator that contains food, and it cannot be thrown in domestic garbage. The hospital also “strongly” urges parents to “not eat your placenta in any form.”

Reality Loser posted:

Oops

E: abolish the senate

Bilirubin posted:

I am not a number!

mrbradlymrmartin posted:

why does canada even need a government

yall just do what uncle sam says anyways

namaste friends posted:

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/0301-placenta-eaters-and-vaginal-seeders


loving white people

mrbradlymrmartin posted:

what if the number is 69

http://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/rural-landowners-rally-around-okotoks-man-charged-in-shooting/wcm/e70d8da6-04c6-4eb5-bdd6-83e068ce7beb posted:

Ranchers stand behind Okotoks man charged in shooting: 'Are we supposed to sit back and let these thieves come in?'

[...]

Police said Edouard Maurice, who faces charges of aggravated assault, pointing a firearm and careless use of a firearm, had a confrontation with two alleged trespassers early Saturday morning.

Shots were fired and Ryan Watson, now facing trespassing and possession charges, was transported to hospital with a gunshot to his arm.

The incident has some locals fired up, saying rural break-ins are becoming far more common.