Pierre Poilievre states that biological men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports. I agree. But then I’m not aware of any biological men attempting to compete in women’s sports. Some transwomen are, but transwomen are … well, women, not biological men. According to my layman’s understanding, these
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Riders Shoot Foot Again
Did the SK Roughriders hire the REAL geniuses who thought the Experience Regina rebrand was smart? They had a meltdown when some meat-heads (pun intended) got upset by A&W sponsoring the team while promoting veggie burgers.The organization doesn't care about player or fan safety, covering up disease outbreaks, and playing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Reality Denial – It’s Happening Right Now in Legislative Bodies
Transgender ideology is being debated and discussed in legislatures. If you value material reality you need to get involved and show up and participate otherwise this bullshit will get even more of a foothold in public institutions. So brutal. Let’s erase females from society in the name of ‘trans inclusivity’.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: CTV News – Supporting Female Erasure in the Name Gender Identity – RPOJ Revived!
Well here we be in 2022 and for some reason the news media seems to have forgotten some very basic facts about the human species. Humans are exclusively a sexually dimorphic species – that is males produce small motile gametes and have their physiology arranged around that aspect of reproduction
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Sports Canary
CBC reported this morning there are 5 fewer NHL teams, yet the league is trying to soldier on instead of responding to the writing on the wall. What's up with literally dozens of Calgary Flames players and staff testing positive for COVID-19, and the NHL and fans figuring it's a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Hockey Canary
The Quebec Remparts are among five QMJHL teams forced to suspend team activities due to positive COVID-19 tests. https://t.co/mDZhsb4hrt — CBC News (@CBCNews) April 4, 2021 The WHL is carrying on in Regina, as the UK variant COVID rages. IKEA in Toronto this morning, apparently. Gonna save the world by
Continue readingPostArctica: Hockey Should Not Be A Racist Sport
Apparently the idea of racism in hockey is now a hot topic in Canada. All I can say is what took everyone so long? Hockey is a white man’s sport. It is very expensive to have your kid properly equipped to play the game at any age. You do not
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Booing Alberta’s premier at public events like Sunday’s Grey Cup — let’s make it a Battle of Alberta thing!
Is the United Conservative Party’s honeymoon over? God knows, it ought to be. Sadly, though, it’s probably not. Yet. Just the same, it was mildly encouraging to hear a few boos for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in a recording of the the opening ceremony of Sunday’s Grey Cup game —
Continue readingPostArctica: Tour de France 2019
Tour de France. Like the World Cup of soccer, the best of sports on a global scale. Or as my grade 8 teacher, Brother Victor, once referring to soccer as the only true world game, might say, this is the absolute summit of such a simple thing as bicycling. It
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Calgary and the hockey barons
On November 18th of last year, Calgary held a plebiscite which attracted an impressive 305,000 voters. The question on the ballot was whether or not the city would host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. The answer was a decisive no, despite the Olympic opponents having far less money at their
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Stub History
I’ve been getting rid of some accumulated paper. I found a receipt for a full year of university tuition in 1978-79: $740. I also found a paystub for my minimum wage job in the summer of 1979. At $3 an hour it took under 7 weeks to earn my tuition.
Continue readingPostArctica: Calgary Wins Grey Cup!!
Congrats to the Calgary Stampeders for their Grey Cup win tonight! On a personal level my total boycott of the National Football League remains solid. One thing I am really learning as I get older is that all the money in the world and all the asinine pleasures you could
Continue readingIn This Corner: Go Jets go! Right?
The other day I turned on the television to find an NHL game in progress. I was shocked. I thought the hockey season ended months ago. It had for me, anyway. Stranger still, the game featured a team identified on the screen only as VGK. VGK? Could it be the
Continue readingScripturient: Our civic centre the Block forgot
During the January 15 council meeting, there was a lengthy presentation of a strategic planning exercise (a real one, not the bogus one The Block call our “community-based strategic plan,” which was neither community-driven nor strategic) for the Parks, Recreation and Culture department (read more about it here). The presenter
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Time For A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Only the supremely naive would think that the extollment of athleticism is a central operating principle in professional sports. While at one time there might have been some purity to the contests, today it is all about making money, often obscene amounts, for the owners and agents of these present-day
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bad Lip Reading is Amazingable
Yes, it’s a made-up word, just like the words in this video. This video is AMAZINGABLE!https://t.co/GI5iGPPkpG#BLR #NFL — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) February 3, 2017 This is pretty catchy:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rio 2016 – Sexism Alive and Well with Elizabeth Plank
One of the frustrations that women experience is that people don’t believe them when they point out sexism in society. So, now thanks to Elizabeth Plank and Vox we can get a newscast rundown of the sexism that pervades our society and of course, the Olympic games. Enjoy? As always, if you’re wondering if we […]
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Still Happens, week 33: Evan Dunfee, Olympic hero
Well, that was fun. The Rio Olympics are over (or close to it, depending on when you read this), and for Canada, they’ve been a smashing success. In the pool, a teenager named Penny Olesiak came out of nowhere (or Ontario) to win four medals and the hearts of a country (I know, I know… […]
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Muhammad Ali rewrote the rule book for athletes as celebrities and activists
The late Muhammad Ali “was much bigger than boxing. He came, from the late 1960s onwards, to symbolise resistance to racism, militarism and inequality.”
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In This Corner: Stuff Still Happens, week 13: Horror in Lahore; more Trumpism
Remember the horrible attack last week in Belgium? Of course you do; it’s still in the news. But on Easter Sunday, there was another terrorist attack that was worse by multiple factors, yet it hardly rated a mention. On Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan, hundreds of people had gathered in one of the city’s largest […]
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