Capital Pointeless
I don’t know how any Regina journalist who is on the city hall beat doesn’t include, in every story about our generation’s answer to the Chateau Qu’Appelle, some line such as … ‘A Capital Pointe...
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Give The Last Word On #PigGate To The True Authority
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” —George Orwell, Animal Farm
Read MoreThe Roughriders’ Season in Rats Alley
Posted by Stephen LaRose | August 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Saskatchewan Roughrider season isn’t so much over as it is in Rats’ Alley, where the dead men lose their bones. Forty-eight hours after Winnipeg journalist and Canadian Football Hall of Fame member Gary Lawless...
Read MoreElection 2015: Stephen Harper Boxes With Shadows
Posted by Stephen LaRose | August 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Stephen’s Harper’s quest for political immortality (immoraly? Hey, they both pass spellcheck …) turned from the quixotic to the bizarre a couple of days ago when he turned his rhetorical guns on Ontario Premier...
Read MoreLBGT Recognition And The Commercial Factor
Posted by Stephen LaRose | June 26, 2015 | LGBTQ, Politics, Sex
Please note: this was written before the Supreme Court of the United States proclaimed today that allowing gay Americans the right to marry is the law of the land. It’s not often anybody has said this in years, but …...
Read MoreMike O’Brien –30–
Posted by Stephen LaRose | May 28, 2015 | R.I.P.
I first met Mike O’Brien in the fall of 1986, as we and about 30 others were lounging around the offices of the University of Alberta student newspaper, The Gateway, waiting to be assigned to our billets at a Western...
Read MoreMore On The Divine Right Of Conservatism
Posted by Stephen LaRose | May 25, 2015 | Politics
In the most recent edition of prairie dog I postulated on what I called The Divine Right of Conservatism: the ability of the chattering classes and business leaders to overlook the most basic, the most stupid and the most...
Read MoreFirst Nations University: Ten Years After
Posted by Stephen LaRose | March 1, 2015 | Education, Fascism
It was just over 10 years ago that the First Nations University of Canada was plunged into a devastating, nearly fatal, and ultimately needless power struggle at the behest of its political overseers. At the time of the...
Read MoreSo That’s Why They’re Called The Weyburn Red Wings
Posted by Stephen LaRose | January 18, 2015 | Economy, Labour, Politics, Sports
There may be some straws in the wind – hearing a neighbor’s been laid off, hearing about the dysfunctional Target Canada coming apart like the Hale Bopp comet into Jupiter – but the news that the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey...
Read MoreAt Least Nobody’s Calling Them The Wascana Village Idiots
Posted by Stephen LaRose | January 17, 2015 | City Hall
It’s a good day for a journalist when s/he can write something that leaves a smile on the face. So I image Will Chabun was chortling like a department store Santa after his first plate of has brownies when he wrote about...
Read MoreWeston Dressler Was The Best He Could Come Up With?
Posted by Stephen LaRose | October 10, 2014 | City Hall, Sports
I am probably the biggest Saskatchewan Roughrider fan in the prairie dog editorial universe, such as it is. And I think Weston Dressler is one of the best receivers to play for the Riders in a generation. But I am quite sure...
Read MoreA New Market For Fowl Supper Tickets, Pickup Trucks, And Rider Gear
Posted by Stephen LaRose | September 25, 2014 | Animals
The New Yorker has a real fascinating story about a York University professor who has been studying the learning and social habits of endangered orangutans in the wild. Of course, this has to be mentioned … “I grew...
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