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Bell Let’s Talk – Counterpoint

Wednesday was Bell Media’s “Let’s Talk” Day which promotes removing the stigma around mental health by talking about it. While the idea behind it is a good and admirable one, there are also some things that make it quite problematic, especially when its a private corporation rather than  government or non-profits working in that area […]

Posted 29 January 2020 § Meme § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Random Thoughts From A Cold Snap

The picture above is pretty much the main reason we have kids – to make them do the jobs we don’t want to do! 🙂 I wish Dyson made “air blade” hand dryers but body-sized. I put money in a parking metre today and it literally took two seconds to register each coin I put […]

Posted 15 January 2020 § List § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

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: ,

American vs. Canadian Snacks Taste Test

 

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

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:

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: ,

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: , ,

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: ,

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: ,

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: , ,