I heard about Calvin Ayre tonight on CBC's The National. Much like myself, he is from a farming family in rural Saskatchewan and attended UWO to do his Masters. Unlike me, he did an MBA instead of an MLIS. Oh, and he became a billionaire via his online gaming company while my stock portfolio consists of RRSP's, some income trust stocks that my grandpa told me to buy and a few shares in a gold company that are currently worth (just a sec…) $62.50. Yep, Ayre and I are peas in a pod, I say!
I was going to write that Ayre is the only billionaire from Saskatchewan but apparently that's not true – Murray Edwards who's the richest of all the rich oil & gas guys in Calgary (and a part owner of the Flames) is from Sask-a-bush (I didn't know that or else I would've given him a call when I lived there. I did say “hey” to Ken King who's the President of the Flames and also from Saskatchewan during their playoff run in 2004 when he was outside for the Fanfest activities. If I had my old-school print photo albums here, I could scan and post the pic I snapped of him giving me a thumbs up.)
The other Saskatchewan billionaire is Jimmy Pattison who made his fortune via a variety of businesses (for example, he's responsible for all those Pattison billboards on every road and street corner in every city in Canada). Pattison lives in Vancouver.
I thought two brothers, Byron and Doc Seaman, who are from Saskatchewan and also part owners of the Flames and would be up there but apparently they're only multi-milllionaires. Oh…
Classmate of the Day goes to Florence Hwang since this is a Saskatchewan-themed post and she reminded me today that she's from Regina. (How did I forget that?)
Renee Stollery also gets a CotD for giving me a good laugh during Collection Development. Our instructor told us the list price for a subscription to an electronic journal ($8000) and asked what we thought a certain library was able to negotiate as their price. As various people were called on, they guessed different numbers – $1000, $2000, $4000 – and then our instructor calls on Renee and she goes “$1” in a moment right out of the Price is Right. I don't know – maybe you had to be there but I found it pretty funny.
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