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Les MacPherson is a Canucklehead Canadian columnist who writes for the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. 

He was born in Regina nine years after the end of the Second World War, for which he can in no way be held responsible. Due to an unfortunate mix-up at the hospital, he was raised by coyotes. Howling is his first language.

After a calamitous experiment with post-secondary education, MacPherson was deemed unemployable by all but the newspaper industry. Starting with the Prince Albert Daily Herald as a reporter/bathroom attendant, he soon worked his way up to city editor/bathroom attendant. He left Prince Albert after an ugly dispute with management over missing urinal pucks.

MacPherson joined the Saskatoon Star Phoenix in 1979 as a reporter covering business, politics and the occult. For reasons having nothing to do with an unfortunate incident involving the publisher's teenage daughter, he was reassigned as a sportswriter. This led to a sports column that almost never was about sports. The column was therefore repositioned to its current place on Page 3, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

In addition to writing his national award-losing column, MacPherson is a member of the Star Phoenix editorial board. No one can explain why. He also does regular radio commentaries. This in spite of a profound speech impediment.

MacPherson is a crack shot, a gifted acrobat and a fine judge of horse flesh. He has no visible scars or tattoos, an achievement of which he is particularly proud. He's married, with two insubordinate children, a dog with only one functional neuron and a mortgage that will be paid off the same year Colin Thatcher gets out of prison. But he's not bitter. Not at all. Not at all.

(Biography written by StarPhoenix colleague and Managing Editor, Cam Hutchinson)