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...
Category: Rants
…out of Nothing at all
Now. You may not live in Regina. You may not live in Saskatchewan. Hell, you may not even live in Canada, or maybe you’re not a North Americaner. Either w...
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...
Danger Zone
Please go read this article (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/gretchen-kelly/the-thing-all-women-do-you-dont-know-about_b_8630416.html). I’ll wait. If you&#...
Angst/Children/Crackpot Theory/Culture/education/enfranchisement/Equality/Family/History/Human rights/Rants
Acting Your Age
Here’s the thing. We live in a society that values youth over experience, wisdom, ability and knowledge. I’m not sure why we do that, but children a...
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...
Bikini, Burkini – Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
– initially entered as a series of ranty comments on an effbook post – I don’t care WHAT your religion is, or isn’t – no governmen...
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...
Listen, Lady
Listen, lady. I get that you’re super old and afraid of things like broken hips and air, but I was standing IN THE PARK, not on the sidewalk, with my dogs, who ...