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Seven Political Predictions for 2017-2020

Donald Trump will be impeached within a year. Andrew Scheer will win the PC Leadership. Jagmeet Singh will win the leadership of the Federal NDP Justin Trudeau will have a major corruption scandal. Rachel Notley will win re-election in Alberta Brad Wall will resign before the next Saskatchewan election. Michelle Obama will go back on […]

¶ Posted 18 January 2017 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Hip30: George Stroumboulopoulos and CBC Radio 2 Celebrate The Tragically Hip

Thirty Canadian artists playing covers of thirty Tragically Hip songs to celebrate thirty years of the Hip as part of a 4-hour radio special on the first day of the year – not a bad way to start the New Year! I hope these songs get released for purchase – maybe to benefit one of the two charities […]

¶ Posted 01 January 2017 § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – CalgaryPuck.com Scammer

Instead of my usual photo from the past, today’s post is unusual for a couple reasons – it’s a link to a web forum thread and I hadn’t seen it at the time it was originally posted a year ago. In fact, I had no knowledge of it until recently. But I wanted to share […]

¶ Posted 30 December 2016 § Internet § Randomness § Technology § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, education, hockey

Radio Garden: Listen To The World

This should probably be a Friday Fun Link but it’s so cool, I wanted to share it right away. More than a streaming service, Radio Garden allows you to easily move from radio station to radio station around the world in a very intuitive, easy-to-use fashion (although Chrome has WebGL disabled by default so you’ll either […]

¶ Posted 20 December 2016 § Internet § PopCulture § Technology § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, language, music, travel, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Map of the World’s Rudest Place Names Is A Thing of Beauty

Inordinately proud I’ve been to some of these places.

¶ Posted 09 December 2016 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § Randomness § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, history, language, ontario, unitedstates

“Snow’s so merciless, poor old Montreal/In spite of everything that’s happened/In spite of it all”

Montreal / Montreal.

¶ Posted 06 December 2016 § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, music

Friday Fun Link – Analyzing the Best and Worst Movie Accents

A Hollywood accent coach made a video then followed it up with a Reddit AMA…

¶ Posted 18 November 2016 § Jobs § PopCulture § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, movies, travel

Music Monday – “They’re lining up the prisoners and/The guards are taking aim/I struggled with some demons/They were middle-class and tame”

“You Want It Darker” – Leonard Cohen

¶ Posted 17 October 2016 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

The NHL Season Begins Tonight!

First overall draft pick, Auston Matthews has already had a memorable debut, setting a modern day record with four goals in his first game and yet, the futile Toronto Maple Leafs still lose 5-4 to the Ottawa Senators. And Regina isn’t the only city celebrating a new sports arena. But as another NHL season kicks off, I’m […]