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Friday Fun Link – Reefer Madness Reaches Canada

From Colbert (with bonus mention of Saskatchewan!) Late night comedians are having a lot of fun with my home province actually (ffwd to 3:00 minute mark)…

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Protesting at the Saskatchewan Legislature, Then & Now (February 11, 2000) #skpoli #yqr

From my personal journal, February 11, 2000: Settle in to bed (well, a sleeping bag under a cafeteria table) about midnight. Oh, when we get back from grabbing our sleeping bags, I offer to bring a coffee to the security guard and end up having a big talk with him – about how he got […]

¶ Posted 28 June 2018 § Canada § Family § List § MemoryLane § Photo § Politics § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely […]

¶ Posted 18 June 2018 § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, language, travel, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Drag Queen Storytime @officialrpl #yqr

This idea is increasingly common in other public libraries across Canada but it’s very cool that that Regent Place where I work was the first public library branch in Regina to offer a Drag Queen Storytime as part of the Pride Festival. The idea isn’t without controversy in some circles but I was pleasantly surprised that the vast […]

¶ Posted 15 June 2018 § FridayFunLink § Library § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, saskatchewan

#yqr Toilet A Top Tourist Attraction

There was a time, shortly after I graduated from my MLIS program, where I seriously thought about putting together a presentation about the importance of the public washrooms in libraries – from making the entire library as a welcoming space for the widest variety of people to being a great way to promote programs to […]

¶ Posted 13 June 2018 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, saskatchewan, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Only Ontario Vote (November 2006) #ElectionDay #OntarioVotes2018 #onpooli

With the Ontario provincial election happening today, I’m reminded of the time I unexpectedly got to vote in that province. It was while I was at Western completing my Master’s of Library Science degree and it happened during a federal byelection in London North-Centre which featured Elizabeth May parachuting in to try to win the […]