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Best Overall Team in Regular Season, Tampa Bay Lightning, Swept In First Round of Playoffs

I occasionally do a post with my picks at the start of the NHL playoffs. I forgot to do so this year but it’s probably not worth it as quite a few series aren’t going the way I’d expected – my Calgary Flames are struggling after winning the Western Conference title in the regular season, […]

¶ Posted 16 April 2019 § Canada § Politics § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey

Music Monday – “I have lost my way/But I hear tell/About a heaven in Alberta/Where they’ve got all hell for a basement”

These aren’t my photos but I thought this montage of Alberta shots – in all its natural beauty and manmade ugliness – was appropriate with the big election coming up tomorrow. “All Hell For A Basement” – Big Sugar

¶ Posted 15 April 2019 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Quarter Horse Cam

Picked up a book on Mexican drug cartels and ended up learning a lot about American quarter horses! 🙂

¶ Posted 05 April 2019 § FridayFunLink § Jobs § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, unitedstates

Music Monday – “There’s the progress we have found (when the rain)/A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign)/Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)/Isn’t anything at all (melt the statues in the park)/Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky”

This song is usually interpreted as being about acid rain but on the day Saskatchewan (and three other provinces) has a federal carbon tax enacted, I thought it was appropriate… “Fall On Me” – R.E.M.

¶ Posted 01 April 2019 § Canada § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, history, language, saskatchewan, weather

Comparing The Cuts: Cornwall Alternative School and Saskatchewan’s Public Libraries #skpoli

I was having some bad flashbacks over the past few days after the Sask Party released their budget last week that included an unexpected, unnecessarily cruel cut. But instead of cutting funding to public libraries and threatening to destroy a 100-year old, world-leading system like they did two years ago, the Sask Party targeted Cornwall […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2019 § Library § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, history, saskatchewan

National Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness

Shea’s cousin’s son was profiled by the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital for National Epilepsy Awareness Day. Rylan’s seizures started at the young age of two. They indicated something serious, but at that point nobody knew it would take such a toll on his future development and quality of life. As his mom Jacqui helplessly observed […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2019 § Family § Meme § Photo § Shea § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health

Friday Fun Link – “Any time you win five Stanley Cups, there’s a certain amount of mess that comes on the tail end of that.”

The only thing that’s made the Flames’ amazing season better is watching the ongoing dumpster fire that is their provincial rivals, the Edmonton Oilers, not just this year but over the past ten years. The smugness and arrogance in this clip from Oilers’ Old Boys Club management is an oldie but a goldie (oh, and […]

¶ Posted 22 March 2019 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § Jobs § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, hockey, language

Democratic Presidential Candidate, Andrew Wang, on Universal Basic Income

The guy seems like a longshot but so did Donald Trump four years ago!

¶ Posted 19 March 2019 § Jobs § Politics § Technology § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, philosophy, science, unitedstates

The Homophobic Version of “Laurel” or “Yanny”?

There was lots of controversy on Twitter (but when isn’t there?) a couple days ago when Leafs defenseman, Morgan Rielly, was accused of yelling a homophobic slur on the ice. There were conflicting opinions with some people thinking the on-ice mics caught him yelling “Fucking faggot” (which wouldn’t be the first time this has happened […]