Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

On Thursday I saw “The Vagina Monologues” for the first time. It was a production at the University of Regina, and there’s another show tomorrow on Friday. Ticket sales are raising money for Sophia house in the city.

One reason I mention this play is that the law has changed in Canada, quietly in Bill C-10, to allow the Minister of Heritage to block funding to cultural events like plays, so long as the Minister (the person) feels squeamish about something in the play. This is a terrible problem looming over the film and theatre industry in Canada, as if the pending copyright bill changes weren’t likely to be bad enough.

With approximately 10% of my daily site traffic coming from a blog post I did about high school girls in New York state who were punished for performing a portion of the Vagina Monologes, I’m reminded every time I check my site stats just how curious people are about censorship, but especially censorship of vaginas.

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And this story isn’t exactly censorship, but it’s still big. It’s not at all shocking to me, unfortunately I expect this kind of avoidance from the Saskatchewan government. Who do those civil servants think they are going to fool? We have the Internet to share such incredible correspondence, and we aren’t afraid to use it.

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Hat Tip to Sask Liberty Train

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And staying with the theme of governments doing things they have no business doing… Chuck Cadman is probably smiling down on us all again, because more of his story is coming back to haunt some apparently corrupt Conservatives. Bribing an MP is a crime! If Harper knew of it, as public statements by Cadman’s widow claim, that would make Harper a criminal. Obviously the RCMP are going to have to investigate, because apparently journalists aren’t paid to do that kind of political investigation.