1 THE CLOCKWORK UNIVERSITY I had to send away my watch for repairs a short while back, and I just got it back a couple of days ago; one of the things that had changed, besides the fact that it now worked, was that the time was...
Read More1 THE IDITAROD IS LIFE Wowza. Grantland really knocked it out of the park. Maybe the most essential thing to read all week, Brian Phillips’ piece on the annual dogsled competition touches on, like, everything. Admirable...
Read MoreIf I was an engineering student at the U of R, I’d be pissed. Today, the CBC published a piece detailing “Project Discovery” – the heinous Newspeak name for a review of overspending in the university’s...
Read More1 DEFINITELY A GREAT USE OF MONEY Leaving aside the question of whether or not their figure is actually accurate – I can find evidence in the budget books of about a 20% increase in post-secondary funding between 2007 and 2009,...
Read MoreI’m surprised, personally. The Harper Government doesn’t like its paid scientists to disclose their research without a crash course in anti-environmentalist spin? This is all news to me: Waiser wrote two scientific...
Read More1 MASSIVE BANK COMPLAINS ABOUT LOST OIL COMPANY REVENUES I feel like I’ve been saying this for years, which is especially depressing because I’m only 24, but maybe this is why it’s a really, really bad idea to...
Read More1 MEANWHILE, IN AMERICA Not looking like a good day for the Defense of Marriage Act. 2 MEANWHILE, IN CANADA Our Supreme Court, having already recognized “the gays” as alive persons, is recommending Canada take a...
Read More1 BUDGET DAY Sask. finance minister Ken Krawetz did the thing with the new shoes and now today he’s giving birth to a bouncing baby budget. He says it’s “balanced” which is a huge relief cause can you...
Read MoreA career spanning nearly twenty years and almost as many records came to a tragic close this weekend as Songs:Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. frontman Jason Molina died. He was 39, he hailed from Lorena, Ohio, and in the words of...
Read More@warmandpunchy True Story.— Regina Police(@reginapolice) March 13, 2013 I’m so happy.
Read More1 ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER Brad Wall wonders aloud why Thomas Mulclair has such a problem with Canada’s resource sector by decrying the hilariously unnecessary Keystone XL pipeline, then tells us that Canada will soon be...
Read MoreRight on fucking cue: If, as was approved in a council motion, there’s a request for publishing the salaries of everybody at the university, Paul McLellan wondered to what purpose this would be put? Would its release...
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