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  • I have been forcibly ungruntled.

    Yours Truly discovered Tuesday, quite by accident, that her favourite (and only) family doctor is closing up shop to take on a new career in surgery. This is fabulous news for him, and poopifying news for Yours Truly. Our family doctor believes in wholistic healing; in treating each patient as a *person* rather than as…

  • to be or not to be

    First, go read this story about some Very Unpopular Decisions the Saskatoon school division has just made. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Now. It’s a pretty dumb idea. It’s dumb because, like the whole “we won’t fail your kid because it will do your kid more psychological harm to be held back from his peers” business,…

  • Sensitivity Training

    Every year, hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in elementary, middle, and high schools, for specialists to try to teach children to be better humans. School is more than just learning your multiplication tables and parts of speech (and sometimes, unfortunately, it is much less than either of those). It’s a place where you…

  • Gender bias

    So I’ve run into this a shocking number of times recently, and it’s really starting to piss me off. In all of the correspondence for football, and in much of the correspondence for hockey, people talk about “your son” this and “the boys” that. I have at least one friend who thinks (wrongly) that girls…

  • But what’s wrong with nipples?

    Dude. The title is *totally* misleading. This post isn’t only about nipples *at all*. Etymologically, the word “pornography” means “one who writes about prostitutes”.  In modern translation, it means Naughty Naughty pictures. People are Very Upset about pornography. I think those people need to really figure out what it is that bothers them, and settle…

  • Welcome to Bass-Ackwards Canadian Policies

    When I heard this on the news, I was shocked. I don’t know why I was shocked, because Harper’s Conservatives have rescinded support for women’s groups, gay rights, and Aboriginal education, to name a few of their more dough-brained decisions. Maybe if you look at these things through some kind of government-sponsored tunnel, you won’t…

  • If you’re getting rid of something…

    I have a couple of friends who are convinced Canada should do away with the Canadian Human Rights Commisison (which only really deals with discrimination in situations concering federally regulated institutions). Or the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. Or both. I don’t think my friends are against human rights. I don’t think they believe that discrimination…

  • I’ll Tell You What Censorship *ISN’T*…

    First, if you’re not familiar with one of the biggest book-related news stories in Saskatchewan since Guy Vanderhaeghe won the Governor General’s Award, let me tell you a story. As The Captain would say, “this is non-fiction, which means it is true.” Once upon a time, there was a politician in Saskatchewan whose father had…

  • When the boat rocks, even though you're sitting nicely in it and are not attempting to capsize it at all, no matter how much you like swimming…