The Saskatchewan Roughriders have accomplished most of their goal, and that is to play for the Grey Cup on home soil. Sunday, we find out if they will complete the task by winning the Grey Cup on home soil. I offer full marks to Darian Durant, who I was ready to cast away by virtue of a two-month slump, has been spectacular through two playoff starts. If you believe what's now leaking from Rider Camp, Durant was dealing with an injury and was trying to play through it and that led to his dip in numbers after a hot start. The Riders have now appeared in four Grey Cup games since 2007 and that's worthy of big applause. Fans, however, need to remember when they are chirping the futile Hamilton Tiger Cats this week that the Ti-Cats hold a 15-3 advantage in championships. Let's also hope Saskatchewan makes national news next Monday morning for something more positive than other headlines of recent years past (manure on Paul McCallum's doorstep, air born beer cans during a game, and degrading Kent Austin's wife immediately come to mind). There are no losers next Sunday. If the Riders don't win, it will be great to see Kent Austin, Henry Burris, and Andy Fantuz hoist the trophy as they all wore Saskatchewan colors with pride during their heyday.
I drove through a construction zone on the Yorkton side of Saskatoon on Thursday and while I am in full favour of reduced speed limits and fines triple the norm for offenders, I also have to say the rules should go both ways. Don't put a 60km/h sign up when the construction is still a good five kilometres (or more in this case) away. It's confusing to drivers who think they have maybe missed something when there is no sign of any equipment on the horizon.
Nobody likes a bully and if someone gets such a label now, it's a real social black eye for the individual being accused. But, has the issue gone too far when a student is able to accuse an opposition football team of bullying because they defeated his team 91-0? While losing by such a wide margin is humiliating, I can't say the matter constitutes bullying. It's people such as the student in this example that make some of us take bullying lightly, sometimes.
A female firefighter (I'll use that term loosely) from New York is taking a required running test for an unprecedented sixth time on December 2nd. She's failed the test five times, but somehow was allowed to graduate. Can someone explain this to me? This is what happens when civil rights groups get involved in things. I wonder how many women, truly, would approve defending this type of issue. To me, if there is a standard to be met in order to graduate then that standard needs to be met and whether you are a male or female should have no bearing on it.
I could comment on Rob Ford, but why bother? He's the laughingstock of late night shows around the world already. There isn't anything I can add that brings any additional humour or information to this matter other than that I found it totally classless that somebody threw a beer at Ford while he was in attendance at the Argo game on Sunday. But, put yourself in Rob Ford's shoes. Would you really want to remain mayor?
As Toronto council works toward removing Ford, we come to realize it's just not an easy thing to do. Then when you really think about it, rules and regulations were put in place by lawyers, judges, and politicians, so it only stands to reason those same rules also benefit lawyers, judges, and politicians.
