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: 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...
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...
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...
Sing, O Muse
Hubris is a term that we equate with excessive pride. Not just being boastful. It isn’t regular pride in something you accomplished (I got out of bed toda...