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Category Archives: Canada

In Defense of @justintrudeau and #askjustin (sorta kinda)

This won’t be the first time I tried to defend the seemingly indefensible on this blog. So let’s take a deep breath, swallow the bit of throw-up that’s rising in my throat and dive right in… 😉 Social media sites (especially Twitter) exploded over the past 24 hours after an e-vite for a $250/person fundraiser […]

Posted 08 November 2013 § Censorship § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Everybody’s bawlin’ like Wallin/Cause who doesn’t want to fly to Saskatchewan/Via Punta Cana”

Posted 04 November 2013 § Humour § MusicMonday § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

I Know We Get To See Hedley At The Grey Cup in Regina…

…but I’d much prefer a half-time show like this one: Here’s a Today show report on how they do it (hint: there’s (even) an app for that!) (Oh, and full credit to my lovely and way-more-witty-than-I-am wife for that Hedley joke in the title of this post!)

Posted 29 October 2013 § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Neil Gaiman’s Love Letter to Libraries

The Guardian recently published an edited version of Neil Gaiman‘s lecture for the Reading Agency.  The Reading Agency’s annual lecture series was initiated in 2012 as a platform for leading writers and thinkers to share original, challenging ideas about reading and libraries. The lecture is amazingly good. On the purposes of reading (and specifically reading fiction)… Fiction […]

Posted 20 October 2013 § Censorship § Internet § Library § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Perogy Poutine

I don’t post a lot of pictures of food on my blog but I couldn’t let this one go by. After Pace’s swimming lessons today, we decided to check out a new restaurant called Coney Island Cafe which was rumoured to have a few varieties of poutine rather than the traditional fries/gravy/cheese curds version you […]

Posted 19 October 2013 § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Wearable Gesture Control

Recently read an article about up & coming Canadian start-ups which mentioned Pebble and these guys whose product looks amazing!

Posted 18 October 2013 § FridayFunLink § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

To End Poverty in #Canada, Guarantee Everyone $20,000/year (But Are You Willing to Trust the Poor?)

This is not a new idea to Canada (or to this blog). But this article is timely in light of a recent post that came across my Facebook News Feed about how “We all pay taxes so the government can give it to someone who doesn’t work as hard as you do.” That misperception that […]

Posted 10 October 2013 § Jobs § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Joan went east/Then she went west/I stayed right here in the middle/That’s where I liked it the best”

This song will always remind me of high school but even after listening to this song hundreds of times in my life, it took this slowed down acoustic version to make me realise I’ve misheard the lyric I quoted in the title of this post as “Joe went east/she went west” as if the narrator […]

Posted 07 October 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

The 2013/14 Season Begins Tonight

My picks for Conference Finalists: Detroit Red Wings vs. New York Islanders in the East and LA Kings vs. Minnesota Wild in the West which becomes NYI versus LA with the Kings winning.

Posted 01 October 2013 § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

11 Ways To Piss Off A Canadian

How aboot make a viral video where the “American” looks more like a Canadian stereotype than the guy playing the Canadian? 😉

Posted 26 September 2013 § Humour § Video ‡ Comments (0) °