A Canadian (Thanksgiving) Parable
Once there was a Queen. She reigned over many lands, in the manner of constitutional monarchies with their own parliamentary systems based largely, if not wholl...
Category: Canadian Politics
Much Ado
There’s little doubt that cannabis and cannabinoids (not an alien race of green-skinned interstellar travellers, but the compounds that comprise the active ingr...
Regina’s (still) Gaping Maw
Something nobody tells you when you have children is that the second you have kids, everyone else on the face of the planet instantly becomes a parenting expert...
Bad Mojo/Canadian Politics/censorship/Freedom/Freedom of Expression/Freedom of Speech/Human rights/Justin Trudeau/Politics/Saskatchewan politics
Keep ’em separated
Recently the Government of Canada included on its summer student funding program a check box that asks whether the business (non-profit/agency/charity/etc.) app...
Bad Mojo/Canadian Politics/Canadian Politics/enfranchisement/Equality/Freedom/Freedom of Expression/Freedom of Speech/Human rights/Politics
Alouette
Way back in the nineteen somethings, Canada was going through the sort of identity crisis we all go through when we’re about fifteen. Québec was all stomp...
Canadian Politics/Children/education/Freedom/Freedom of Expression/Freedom of Speech/Human rights/Politics/Rants/Saskatchewan/Saskatchewan politics
Fuck Libraries
The Saskatchewan government, in its 2017/18 budget, has slashed library budgets around the province. It’s done all kinds of other things too like force ci...
Canadian Politics/Canadian Politics/Christmas/Justin Trudeau/Porblems/Rants/Saskatchewan/Saskatchewan politics
Cardboard cutout
I’ve heard a lot of stupid things in my time. Hell, I’ve probably said more stupid things than a really large number of people who’ve said stu...
Uncomfortable Dinner
Canada’s federal Minister of Health has just slapped Saskatchewan’s hands for offering pay-to-use MRIs, prompting the Saskatchewan Minister of Healt...
Canadian Politics/Canadian Politics/enfranchisement/Equality/Gender equality/Human rights/Rants/Saskatchewan/Saskatchewan politics/Women
Gender what now?
Yesterday, Premier Brad Wall announced his new cabinet (full disclosure: up until my mid-20s I thought a “cabinet shuffle” was a really, really lame...
Ain’t nothing wrong with faith
After yesterday’s little rant about public funding going to “independent schools”, let me be clear about something: I’m not saying there...