Law Foundation Of Saskatchewan Lecture
As a professor of criminology at the University of Toronto Mariana Valverde has a long history of exploring legal questions tied to sexuality. The first book she published as an academic, in fact, was...
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And Then There Were Five
Mid-term elections were held in the United States yesterday. In addition to all the senate and congressional seats that were up for grabs, voters in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C. also weighed in...
View ArticleAn Election Fraudsketeer Goes To Jail
From The Globe And Mail: Michael Sona, the former Conservative staffer convicted in the 2011 robocalls scandal, was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in jail for what the judge called “an affront to...
View ArticleKill The Messenger
This film, which stars Jeremy Renner, is based on the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. In 1996, Webb published a three-part 20,000 word feature in the San Jose Mercury News...
View ArticleProvince Removes Reeve From Post, Criminal Charges Likely
The Saskatchewan government released retired Justice Ron Barclay’s report into the RM of Sherwood Wascana Village fiasco today. You can read more in this CBC report. Because of the many damning...
View ArticleBanned Books Cafe 2
Freedom to Read Week runs Feb. 22-28 this year. To commemorate the occasion, Regina Public Library writer-in-residence Arthur Slade has organized a selection of readings from books that have been...
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Bedtime Reading
Above is an excerpt from a Science Fiction novel that I picked up at the library yesterday for light bedtime reading. It’s by a master of the genre who has been active as a writer since the 1960s. The...
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Nash Memorial Lecture
Here’s a heads up about this lecture which is happening on Thursday March 5 at the University of Regina. The Nash is hosted by Campion College, and typically involves a religious or spiritual theme of...
View ArticleThe Hunting Ground
Rolling Stone magazine faced an embarrassing situation in April when it had to retract a story it had published about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. A review found that it failed...
View ArticleThe Riot Club
Directed by Lone Sherfig, this British film was adapted from a play by Laura Wade called Posh. No, it’s not a biopic about Victoria Beckham (a.k.a. Posh Spice). Although the subject does relate to the...
View ArticleThe Thin Blue Line
Directed by Errol Morris, this well-known 1988 documentary dissects a police investigation into the murder of a Dallas police officer in 1976. The person who ended up being the focus of the...
View ArticleHalloween Fun
Halloween is on Saturday this year, which always opens the door adults who celebrate the day to do so with a bit more gusto than when it’s in the middle of the week. Here’s some party options that have...
View ArticleSunday Reading: Harper’s Reverse Firewall, Killing Kennedy
On Friday the Ottawa Citizen published a great column by editor Andrew Potter on what it was, exactly, that Stephen Harper was trying to do. Potter’s conclusion in a nutshell: the former prime minister...
View ArticleCanadian Club of Regina Luncheon
When Regina Police Service went before city council in early December to seek approval for a 5.3 percent increase in its budget to $80.3 million to add additional officers and purchase carbine rifles,...
View ArticleStanford Prison Experiment
As originally planned, the experiment was supposed to last for two weeks. But the results were so troubling that it was ended after six days. It occurred in 1971, and involved Stanford University...
View ArticleOn Today’s Awful Hate Crime In Orlando
Well fuck this horror. Dan Savage covers the massacre comprehensively here. Jeet Heer weighs in here. The Guardian has its usual excellent coverage here. There’s a candlelight vigil at Q Nightclub in a...
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