A Quebec aboriginal man who repeatedly burned a five-year-old girl with a cigarette, leaving permanent scars on her face, arms, legs and genitalia, has been given a lenient sentence after a judge determined he is a “collateral victim” of residential school abuse.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/collateral-victim-of-residential-schools-gets-15-months-for-burning-child-27-times-with-cigarette-lighter

Apparently being a "family values" politician requires putting your La-Z-Boy chair in front of the boys' shower.

So you can, um, stop them from fighting in the shower.

I'm stealing this from Reddit:

Godwina's Law: In any conversation about feminism or women's rights, as the conversation goes on the odds of someone using rape victims as an argument approaches 1.

Bill Moyers rips the media for conflating Bernie Sanders' progressive populism with Trump's populism.

German police raid internet posters, and British police make open threats to do the same:

http://www.teaparty.org/police-raid-apartments-right-wing-social-media-posts-153381/

An observation about revolutions holds that once a government starts shooting its own people in the street, its overthrow becomes inevitable. Making threats against internet posters feels like the modern, rich-nation equivalent.

The union says Hudson wasn’t entitled to overtime pay because she was a manager. She filed for all the overtime the day after an election was held to choose the next executive committee, the statement says. The deal was reached on April 16, 2015, and the two defendants who allegedly signed off were both leaving their posts at the end of the month.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/04/07/black-lives-matter-member-sued-for-severance-deal