Six In The Afternoon

1. What a joke (CBC Saskatchewan.) What (Mitchell Blair) a freaking (Rod Pedersen) joke. Daddy lets number-one son run the team, the team goes nowhere for the best part of a decade and a half, he hires a new coach, gives Derkatch a three-year contract on the strength of being little more than a ex-Pat, then fires him after one year. And number one son says it's all the coach's fault. Not the guy who hired him. And the coach before that, and before that ... spare me.

2. Fiacco will work up more of a sweat doing his personal income taxes this year than he will running for re-election. The CCFR is pretty much dead, and even the NDP are trying to court His Worship. (CJME)

3. Mountie Tasering inquiry in Vancouver ground to a halt again just after one officer who was scheduled to testify instead produced a whole bunch of notes and emails he didn't submit to either the original investigation into the Polish immigrant's death or the current inquiry. (CBC British Columbia) I don't know if you can call it a cover-up any more -- that implies an organized campaign and the current crop of BC Mounties can't organize an orgasm at a Roman orgy, from this vantage point.

4. While Her Majesty double-checked to see that it wasn't Princess Anne, four Mounties Tasered her. (Canada.com)

5. A good way to prepare for an NHL career as an enforcer -- a bouncer on Jerry Springer. (Faceoff.com via Vancouver Sun)

6. The most pressing issue of British Columbia's provincial election? Soccer. Of course. (The 24th Minute)