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Some Thoughts On Buying And Selling Houses in December

Shea and I made the offer on our new house on October 5 and took possession on November 22. For a variety of reasons, we were in a fortunate position where we didn’t have to make the purchase conditional on the sale of our old house and, in fact, we were fully prepared to float […]

¶ Posted 10 December 2019 § Family § Jobs § Saskatchewan § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, xmas

American vs. Canadian Snacks Taste Test

¶ Posted 04 December 2019 § Humour § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Spirit of the West Full Concert (June 2015)

Obviously I wasn’t at this concert but I was at Spirit of the West’s Regina show around the same time (same tour?) after John Mann’s diagnosis and this is a pretty good capture of the mixed emotions of that show – joy, sadness, awe, fear.

¶ Posted 21 November 2019 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

RIP John Mann (1964-2019)

It was a long, inevitable farewell. After announcing his Early Onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2014, John Mann, lead singer and frontman of the seminal 90’s Canadiana band, Spirit of the West, embarked on a farewell tour with the band in 2014. Shea and I got to see this show and it reminded me of why, […]

¶ Posted 20 November 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, music

What Are the Similarities and Differences Between Toronto Public Library and Don Cherry?

There have been a couple major media storms recently – Toronto Public Library faced a huge outcry for allowing a controversial speaker to proceed with a presentation in one of their branch meeting rooms and Sportsnet faced a huge outcry after longtime hockey icon, Don Cherry, made controversial remarks where he accused recent immigrants of […]

¶ Posted 12 November 2019 § Censorship § Internet § Library § List § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: freedomtoreadweek, language, ontario

NHL #HeritageClassic Highlights

Wrong team won but with a few days to think about it, probably worth it to see a 3-on-3 overtime outdoors (pond hockey!) and would’ve been even better if it had gone to shootout too!

¶ Posted 30 October 2019 § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey

2019 Edition of “First Snow of the Year” – Hawksley Workman

It created a pretty magical “snow globe” effect at the Heritage Classic last night, continued to fall through the night and it’s always a bit of a judgement call but it feels like it’s time to do my annual post of this song as it feels like the snow is here to stay again for […]

¶ Posted 27 October 2019 § Blog § MemoryLane § Pace § PopCulture § Sad § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan, weather

Saturday Snap – Ready To Head Out to the Heritage Classic!

Pretty cool experience to go to the Flames Heritage Classic game in Regina with my Calgary cousins and our dads.

¶ Posted 26 October 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey, parents

Friday Fun Link – Elections Fun

A variety of ways to look at the results. How would proportional representation have shaped the results (always with the caveat that even PR supporters like myself have to acknowledge parties knowing the election was happening under PR would change strategies and the results so it’s hard to map FPTP results onto PR models perfectly.) […]

¶ Posted 25 October 2019 § FridayFunLink § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Go Flames Go (April 2004 Stanley Cup Run)

I’m super excited for the Heritage Classic outdoor NHL game (first regular season NHL game in a non-NHL city ever!) on Saturday night at Mosaic Stadium. I’ve always been a Flames fan since I have a lot of family in Calgary but they were my second favourite team, at least until we moved to Calgary […]