Usually I’m a strong supporter of people being “innocent until proven guilty,” but I’ll make an exception here. Throw away the key!
Update:
Comment of the century from RiderFans.com
This is shocking considering he’s a relatively handsome man. He could probably get any chick he wanted.
Here’s the beaut:
Ok, it’s not that bad, but most of the defenders come up with the worst reasons to promote Regina.
The worst offender in this category is the horrid Regina in Pictures blog. Here “Guy D” posts a new picture of Regina everyday. Unfortunately it’s a big scam. To be sure Monsieur D has a certain eye for taking photos, the only problem is that they’re aritificial. His photos are highly selective, overexposed and overly post-processed. I too could make all of my photos look edgy if turned up the contrast and saturation on all of them. Additionally he peddles false information such as the Albert Memorial Bridge holding a “record” or “Guiness Book of World Records” for the longest bridge over the shortest body of water. In reality the bridge has never been recognized for any such award.
Then there are his commenters who say stupid things like that the SaskPower building looks like it were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Overall the site is a con job. It a perfect example polishing a turd with a computer. The truth is that Regina is ugly, very, very ugly. Of course there are a couple nice buildings and a few places with nice scenery in the city, but overall, not so much. The Albert Memorial Bridge is not only a symbol of government waste during the Depression, but it’s ugly as hell and not properly maintained. Victoria Park, while large, is ugly and full of rapists. The Legislative Building is fine, but nothing special. Perhaps the most interesting building in town is the Art Deco Dominion Government Building on Scarth St. But if you look at the city as a whole it’s ugly and full of crime.
If I had enough free time I’d make a rival site called “Real Regina in Pictures” and walk around North Central and take some pretty pictures. Next I’d go to the stucco jungle we call “East Regina”. Then perhaps I take some pictures of the failure that is the SGI Building, the modernist mess that Minoru Yamasaki made at the University of Regina, and the ugly-as-shit design of Arthur Erickson at the RCMP.
…they’re usually part of a union.
Advanced Education, Employment and Labour Minister Rob Norris received a raucous and not very friendly reception at the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour convention in Regina Thursday.
Most of the more than 600 delegates left their seats during his speech, at the Conexus Arts Centre, and gradually gathered at the back of the room.
They shouted disapproving comments at Norris and almost drowned out his speech with rousing renditions of the “solidarity forever” song.
Many of the delegates held one of their arms straight up above their heads in a closed-fisted gesture of solidarity and defiance.
Comments such as “bull shit” and “shame” were directed at Norris, as he continued with his speech, which defended changed in labour legislation made by the government and generally discussed positive developments in the province. [Leader-Post]
Seriously? This is how unions air their grievances? And they wonder why so many people, especially of my generation, hate unions.
On Thursday the Leader-Post reported that a number of “underage” employees were let go from a local Dairy Queen.
On Friday the Leader-Post editorialized in support of the law banning “underage” workers.
On Friday I sent a letter to the editor:
In the Friday, September 26, 2008 edition of the paper (”Protections serve
young workers”) the Leader-Post editorialized in favor of “arbitrary” laws preventing 15 year olds from working certain jobs.The editorial goes as far as to attempt to link the current state of affairs with that of industrial Britain in the 19th century, as though voluntary, consensual part-time work is akin to forced child labor.
Likewise the editorialist decries the interest in “buying frills and gadgets,” calling it, “the sad detritus of a materialistic age.” First, can one honestly argue that adults don’t partake in such a shameful materialistic age? Secondly, a desire for the latest technological frivolities is not shameful, rather it should be encouraged as a privilege we now have thanks to the hard work of those in the past.
The Leader-Post advocates a blanket policy preventing young people from working, while admitting that many students are fully capable of handling school and part-time work. To create policy based on the notion that some might not be able to handle both is fallacious and offensive. Drafting legislation which punishes individuals for the sake of the collective is not the proper role of government.
Most egregiously, while defending the arbitrary and unnecessary law with one side of its mouth, on the other side the Leader-Post continues to employ youths-indeed children-as deliverers of its papers in the early hours of the morning.
As a history nerd I spend my time reading The Saskatchewan Gazette, the official weekly publication of the Saskatchewan government. My favorite feature is the listings under the The Change of Name Act. Here are some of the best:
David LEVI became Igor BOGOMAZOV
Lauren Danielle OLEDZKI became Daniel Eric OLEDZKI
Gregory Wilfred DYCK became Gregory Wilfred VAN DYCK
Robert Glen GORDON became Robert Glenn O’SOUP
If Mr. O’Soup doesn’t name his first born Cup, he will have failed life.