ConCalls: RoboCall Boundary Edition #RoboCon 650 days and counting
Last week I got a robocall from “Chase Research” and listened to it all, taking notes when I realized it was a Conservative push-poll and would cause a scandal. I…
Saskatchewan
Why Liberals Should Fear Gerrymandering
Recently Saskatchewan MP Ralph Goodale wrote a post echoing a sentiment surprisingly popular among what’s left of the Liberal Party membership, and that is, this Conservative government is going to…
It’s Cold Outside
The ol’ digital thermometer is saying it’s about -35 in Regina this morning, before the windchill value is calculated. I still saw ESL students walking to school without toques or…
ISS over Regina
I was checking to see the next time the International Space Station would fly over Regina’s skies, and saw it was in two minutes! (There are only a few times…
Winter in Saskatchewan
When it’s too cold to explain, photos will have to do. I don’t go to church anymore, and didn’t want to long before I stopped going. This year I was…
Gag A Town
A very disturbing bit of news from northern Saskatchewan is getting some press recently. This was sent to me on the weekend about a gag order issued for Canadian citizens…
#IdleNoMore Prayer Rally in Regina
A bitterly cold -16 Celsius temperature didn’t deter over 100 people from turning out to voice their concerns about the Conservatives’ omnibus bill C-45 passed in haste last week. The…
Conservatives Abandon Community Pasture Protection
If the Conservatives removed protection on all fish in the ocean, do you think there’d be an outcry of concern? What if they allowed every old tree to be cut…
The Saskatchiban…
...banning inappropriate female footwear in the name of ancient law.
Children Love Saskatchewan
Come to Saskatchewan, and see our Wall. (- This wall is in Ottawa.) That’s the apparent pitch, awkwardly spoken by Regina’s former mayor, Pat Fiacco. Now Fiacco is the head…
Civic Election
The civic elections for Regina and municipalities in Saskatchewan are coming up on Wednesday Oct. 24th, 2012. It’s more significant to me than most elections, because this is the first…
Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission Submission
As Noah has noted, I appeared in front of the federal electoral boundaries commission this afternoon. Here’s a somewhat abridged and polished version of what I had to say –…
Wall Resource Royalties
This article is going to be fun during an upcoming election campaign, so I’m making sure that it doesn’t disappear if the website it is on goes away. Wall muses…
Immigration
Working on campus: allowed. Work a shitty job at Walmart for two weeks, and declare the income: deportation. It’s the reality that international students face in Canada. Those students placing…
Regina’s Unlikely Sights
An unexpected appearance by Beaker in the 3rd floor RIC window A wasp drinking some pop Red Sun at One in the Afternoon: I couldn’t figure out what the unnatural…
Oh Yeah?
-My tongue is longer than yours. -Oh yeah? Well, my tail is longer than yours. -Don’t look at me, I’m staying out of this.
Raising Saskatchewan’s Minimum Wage
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour president Larry Hubich and I have the following joint op-ed in today’s Regina Leader-Post (page A10). It’s been fourteen years since I first wrote into The…
Photos of Gravelbourg, Fir Mountain, and Wood Mountain
Here’s a sampling of why you’d want to take a drive south of Moose Jaw sometime. I left Wood Mountain on Sunday afternoon Drove by Fir Mountain not too long…
Folk Festival Saturday
Some more photos from the Wood Mountain Folk Festival, with videos to come when I send some to YouTube. Little Miss Higgins The backdrop over the audience Scene from that…
Wood Mountain Folk Fest
On this weekend I’m at the Wood Mountain Folk Fest. Last night the air was cool and windy, with a few drops of rain, but dozens of people stuck it…