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Category Archives: MemoryLane

Medicare Is A Part of Us

Former Saskatchewan Premier and Healthcare Commission Chair, Roy Romanow celebrates Canada Day with a column in the Globe & Mail on perhaps our most cherished Canadian institution. Compared to what’s happening in the US right now where the Supreme Court had to rule on President Obama’s healthcare plan just last week to try to extend […]

Posted 01 July 2012 § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Sappy Sunday – The Best High School Graduation Gift Ever

Saw this idea on Reddit and thought – wow, that’s amazing. If only I knew of a kid that was starting kindergarten this fall that I could do this for! 😉

Posted 24 June 2012 § Family § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Pace on Father’s Day

It’s not Saturday but here’s a picture anyhow…

Posted 21 June 2012 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Mick Burrs: Real Live Poet

Had a surprise visitor at work the other day – poet Steven Michael Berzensky (aka Mick Burrs). I first came across Mick’s books when, as a young English major, I would go to Yorkton as part of my job as a door-to-door salesman with Image Cable Systems.  I would spend the night at a co-worker’s […]

Posted 20 June 2012 § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Re-live TEDxRegina Through the Magic of Online Streaming Video!

Here’s my personal favourite presentation from TEDxRegina last month. (All the TEDxRegina videos are up but as of right now, and just for me (?), not all eight are showing up when you search for that tag.  But that’s okay because I can hold a few back for later posting!)  

Posted 19 June 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Maybe a lonely man/Who’s in the middle of something/That he doesn’t really understand.”

Happy 70th Birthday to Sir Paul McCartney (or is it?) Some of my personal faves of Sir Macca’s songs through the years with the Beatles, Wings and solo…

Posted 18 June 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Happy Father’s Day!

What makes a father first realize that he is a dad? (Now, if you’ll excuse I think I have some dust in my eye…)

Posted 17 June 2012 § Family § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Stephen Harper on Omnibus Budgets

In 1994… Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order to make a procedural argument concerning the omnibus nature of this piece of legislation…Bill C-17, is of an omnibus nature. I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that you should rule it out of order and it should not be considered by the […]

Posted 14 June 2012 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

10 Questions With Dr. Ryan Meili

I recently had the chance to interview Dr. Ryan Meili, author of “A Healthy Society: How A Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy“. After some back and forth discussion, we decided that the best way to do this would be for me to prepare a few questions then send them by e-mail so he […]

Posted 10 June 2012 § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Kindergarten Orientation

Pace had a half-day kindergarten orientation on Friday. Definitely a bittersweet day. Everyone tells you but hard to believe how fast they grow…

Posted 09 June 2012 § Family § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,