Well, we're back from Calgary and it was a great trip! Pace was an amazing traveler, we saw lots of friends, family and old familiar sights. In many ways, it felt like we were trying to cram three and a half years of memories from when we lived there into just under a week of […]
I couldn't think what to post about so Shea suggested I give an update from my real life. So here it is…– tonight we went for a big walk and ended up in River Park just down the hill from where we live in Weyburn. There was an In Motion celebration going on and Pace […]
Nothing says romance like going to see an awesome independent country-rock artist like Roger Marin Jr. Check him out on February 14 if you're reading this in London (or click the link to see his other dates around SW Ontario.)
When I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta, one of my main jobs each year was to organize their annual book awards program. One of my most memorable experiences during this time was when of our members submitted her book in both the fiction and non-fiction categories. I looked at the book and saw […]
Saskabush is like Saskatchewan's answer to The Onion (but with a much more random yet much less frequent publishing schedule.) Not sure how the humour translates outside the borders of the flatlands but as someone who lives here, I find the writer laugh-out-loud funny on a frequent basis. So, in light of the recent provincial […]
MICHAEL MOORE OFFERS TO REIMBURSE THE UNITED NURSES OF ALBERTA FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF HIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED FILM SiCKO CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR APPLAUDS MICHAEL MOORE'S ACTION AND OFFERS FREE ADMISSION TO ALL NURSES ACROSS CANADA STARTING MONDAY, JULY 16TH TORONTO, ONTARIO – July 12, 2007 – In an effort to encourage members of the public to […]
I've had four speeding tickets in my life… #1 – I was driving home late at a night from a summer job during college after a week working in northern Saskatchewan. Anxious to get home, I was going pretty fast when an RCMP officer passed me just outside a town on the other site of […]
In the course of talking to the performer I've booked for our Summer Reading Club tour, he mentioned that a colleague, Bonnie Logan, will be appearing in London, ON for a similar tour. I said that there are still quite a few people from London and area reading this blog so if he passed along […]
A MetaFilter thread discussing an essay entitled “Viewing American Class Divisions Through MySpace and Facebook” leads to this interesting nugget: Toronto has the most Facebook members of any city in the world (that's absolute “most”, not even per capita. This means TO outranks much larger cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Canada has […]
In keeping with the topic of the day over at my other most favourite site on the Internet, LibrarianActivist, here’s a report on internet filtering from the National Coalition Against Censorship which is admittedly, a bit dated, having been produced in 2001. But it gives an excellent overview of many of the issues and problems […]
