Last night, the University of Regina’s University Council – a body made up (in theory) of all faculty members, senior administrators, and students – met for the first time in 20 years, in response to the threat...
Read More1 OIL BE SEEING YOU Sort of interesting that before Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is even in the ground oil companies are preparing to step over his corpse in order to plunder the South American nation’s oil riches, no?...
Read MoreBig Oil is super stoked on the idea of carbon capture because it means that they can behave as if the tar sands aren’t abhorrent pollution zones spewing out garbage into our atmosphere like a factory in a cartoon belching...
Read More1 WELP Human Rights Watch has been tracking the RCMP’s treatment of the Aboriginal community in general and their women in particular. Now, they’re calling for an inquiry into the RCMP’s relationship with the...
Read MoreEurogamer has one of the best investigative journalism pieces you’ll read this month: a pages-long exposé on the profits the military-industrial complex manages to wring from video games. Even if you aren’t a gamer,...
Read More1 NEW BLACKBERRY I got a BlackBerry because my friends all wanted to use BBM to communicate. It worked for a while until everyone started getting iPhones. Now I only know two other people with BlackBerries and we communicate via...
Read MoreDoes anyone else think it’s sort of irresponsible how e.g. the CBC are covering the potential outcome of the cuts being faced by both universities in this province? (Note: For largely sterling coverage, of course, you...
Read MoreThe Carillon, the University of Regina student newspaper (full disclosure: I was its editor-in-chief for two years), is generally a pretty good outlet to defer to on post-secondary issues in Regina and, indeed, the province in...
Read MoreScrew a preamble. Here’s three more acts you might want to check out tonight. CITYREAL is a Vancouver rapper with a background in political science, but his 2011 effort, The Beginning, didn’t secure a nod at last...
Read MoreGood-ish news, I think: Kathleen Irwin, the head of the U of R’s theatre department, popped into the comments section of my last post and dropped some knowledge: As of May 1 2012, the Theatre Department began to focus...
Read MoreUPDATE: Whitworth here. Apparently the Theatre department is not quite dead yet. Is it getting better? Well, John Cameron has written a second blog post with additional information. You can read that here. John’s original...
Read More1 ROMNEY’S DEATH RATTLE So, the fantastic San Francisco-based magazine Mother Jones published some hellaciously damaging footage of Mitt Romney pooh-poohing 47% of the American electorate – disingenuous at best, a...
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