Lies, Tell Us Lies, Tell Us Sweet Little Lies…
Source: CTV News: Emails Contradict MacKay on N.L. Chopper Flight Does anyone else remember when we talked about the issue of Challenger jet flights? Good, that will bring us all…
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Video: Largest Strike in Britain Since 1926
As I prepare to meet one deadline and then jump straight into the pool to start meeting the next, I urge you to check out the Democracy Now! coverage of…
What Can You Say?
CTV News: Feds to put Attawapiskat Under Third-Party ManagementCBC News: Attawapiskat Ordered into 3rd-Party ControlCBC News: Managers Axed at Sasktel So, there’s a few things that we need to talk…
Blanket Posting
CTVNewsSaskatoon: City Admins Defend Tax Hike in 2012 BudgetCTVNewsRegina: Wall Fed up with SaskTel’s Cellular Service Problems So, despite the slim two topics sourced above, we’ll see where this blog…
Cash-Back and Occupy This
This post is going to be split in to two subjects; though one will be longer than the other. First, let’s talk about election financing. Stop groaning and moaning, it’s…
Quote: Beyond Marriage Equality
The recent efforts to promote lesbian and gay marriage also promote a norm that threatens to render illegitimate and abject those sexual arrangements that do not comply with the marriage…
Quote: Whiteness and Class
I know people who fit the entire description. I was raised among them -- klansmen, gay-bashers, wife-beaters, and child-rapists with a penchant for incest, as well as moonshiners, cardplayers, snake-handlers,…
There’s Got to be a Morning After
Well, election day has come and gone in Saskatchewan. All of you should be aware of the numbers, and the fact that the NDP has been reduced to historical lows,…
Mountains and Molehills
Since the election campaign began in Saskatchewan, the election has been framed mostly around the NDP's commitment to review potash royalties to increase the return for the people of Saskatchewan.…
Quote: Writing Self
Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race ... everything finally piling into a single human…
Debatable Debate
Like many people in Saskatchewan, I sat down tonight to watch the Leader's Debate.For the most part, the debate was rather reserved. Both leaders took a few small swipes at…
An Omission Here, A Touch-Up There…
Throughout the course of this election campaign, the Saskatchewan Party has been playing fast and loose with the history of our province. Commercial after commercial, press release after press release,…
An Omission Here, A Touch-Up There…
Throughout the course of this election campaign, the Saskatchewan Party has been playing fast and loose with the history of our province. Commercial after commercial, press release after press release,…
Sudbury’s 99%: Day 1
My first journalistic piece in awhile -- written for and published at the site of the Grassroots Sudbury Media working group affiliated with The Media Co-op.Sudbury's 99%: Day 1On a…
Scott Muses: Choose Your Saskatchewan
I'm still digesting the NDP platform release, as well as the announcements and headlines that have been made over the past week...I'm also dealing with one hell of a cold…
Quote: Masculinity
Masculinity has been and continues to be a normative rubric that has policed the sex/gender system. I see very little advantage in recuperating the term masculinity because, as a category,…
Setting the Record Straight
There are times when I wonder if I've made the right decision with my life; by which I mean, to become the political junkie that I am. Nothing makes me…
A Question About Naming Ourselves
One of the courses I'm taking right now involves writing a 'thought provoking question' about each week's readings before the class in question. As I've written before on this site,…
Taking Hope From Right-Wing Ridiculousness
I almost never spend any time reading material from the right-wing blogosphere -- I can appreciate that understanding the discourse of various categories of opponents is worthwhile, and I respect…
A Notice
Hello all,I suppose with the writ dropped for the Saskatchewan election, many of you are expecting this blog to become a wildfire place for information and the like...However, I must…