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Got the Labour Day Classic - Canadian Football League match between Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers being played in Regina - on the TV for background noise. I've been a Riders fan almost since I started walking, because of my upbringing.

Meanwhile, there's a three-province police search underway for two suspects in a case of multiple-homicide - 10 dead, 15 injured - that started in a First Nation and a neighbouring settler-founded community a ways north of Saskatoon. The crimes and the search they've triggered have made the news as far away from Saskatchewan as the UK (The Guardian), Germany (DW News), and Australia (ABC News) by now.

There is a severe dissonance here when I look at these two things together in the same posting...
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I was hoping to gather with friends at a local pub for the game tonight.

The response to the Facebook event I posted, however, has been underwhelmingly clear. So...staying home tonight.

Apologies to anyone who was planning to show up...but one maybe and nine no-votes on Facebook made it clear that the event was going to fizzle.
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Just found out about this league this morning!

http://www.wwcfl.com/p/teams.html
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Some things I shall note for the amusement of those outside Canada who give a hoot:

1) Being originally from Saskatchewan, I am a fan of their resident Canadian Football League team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

(Yes, I remember: what we call "soccer", the rest of the world calls "football", and as for what we call "football", either in Canada or the States? Well, we're not going there tonight.)

2) I currently live in Ottawa, which used to have its own CFL team. Twice. First, the original Rough Riders, then the Renegades. I will not dwell overmuch on how each of those teams suffered their falls from solvency, save to say that I think Ottawa's suffered an injustice. Twice.

3) The same applies to the rest of the League, as a direct consequence.

4) I'd like to see a CFL team in Ottawa again.

5) Owing to nativist sentimentality on my part, I want Saskatchewan to be the only team in the CFL to have the "Roughriders" name once Ottawa gets back into the League.

6) We'll save the debate over how Ottawa's getting back into the game for another posting.

(Glares 'round the room to warn off any fellow Ottawans looking to bring their argument to this posting.)   

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Well, the Argos gave my Riders what-for last night, didn't they?

Nuts.

Granted, we're still locked into a playoff spot at this point, but it still feels a pain. And our home-field advantage depends on how someone else's game goes tomorrow.

Bah.
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Item One:

Okay, that itch that was bugging me about subways, Bank Street and Lansdowne that some of you have been arguing with me over at [livejournal.com profile] octranspo about? Spacing Ottawa let me take the thought a little further today:

http://spacingottawa.ca/2010/07/02/the-meeting-of-the-mega-projects-a-tunnel-for-bank-street/

Item Two:

I just found out that Ghana got turfed from the World Cup. Not happy about that at all.

Item Three:

I thoroughly enjoyed the outcome of last night's game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Montréal Alouettes.

Back to you!
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What's wrong with redeveloping Lansdowne Park to be used by both the Canadian Football League and Major League Soccer? Apparently, there's some sort of quibble at or near to City Hall on the subject.
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Yesterday, I got nailed with one of those 12-24 hour stomach bugs yesterday. Was not a happy occasion, by any stretch.

The day before that, though...that was fun.

I was at the Arrow and Loon, a restaurant/tavern at Fifth Avenue Court down in the Glebe, attending a gathering of Saskatchewan Roughrider fans to watch the Western Conference final of the CFL. Good company to keep, the results of the game itself were happy ones, and the food was good.

Damn the timing of that stomach bug, though.

Here's to a Grey Cup victory for the 'Riders!

(Yes, I know I live in Ottawa. I spent ten years or so living in a house with a direct line of sight to Taylor Field from my parents' bedroom window, though. You don't "recover" from that kind of thing.)

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