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Five Lists of Five Things I’m Thinking About As Scott Moe Prepares To Release His Five Phase Plan for Reopening Saskatchewan

Premier Scott Moe had a press conference tonight to announce that…he will be having a press conference tomorrow night to talk about how his government has a five point plan for reopening the province now that we’ve flattened the curve…maybe. There’s no doubt that Saskatchewan has done very well during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to […]

Music Monday – “That’s great it starts with an outbreak/From birds and bats to airplanes/Donald Trump is not afraid”

Great rewrite! “It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) – COVID-19 Remix” – R.E.M.

¶ Posted 16 March 2020 § Humour § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, language, music, science

Saturday Snap – Scenes From Plague Week

With apologies to Daniel Dafoe, some scenes from the past few days… Busy disinfecting everything in the house… I *love* my library’s “In the News” display. It’s been a huge hit with how timely and responsive it is and our COVID-themed display was no exception (yes, I know some of those “boost your immunity” books […]

¶ Posted 14 March 2020 § Meme § News § Photo § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, food, health, science

Some Quick Thoughts On The End of The World

Coronavirus I was in a meeting tonight and in the course of about an hour, my phone buzzed to tell me that: 1) Trump was going to start heavily restricting travel from Europe to US; 2) the NBA was cancelling their season; and 3) Tom Hanks and his wife have the disease. It’s a wild, […]

¶ Posted 11 March 2020 § News § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, health, history, hockey, saskatchewan, travel

Republican Presidents: Venn Diagram Version

(via Reddit)

¶ Posted 04 March 2020 § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, unitedstates

Why Does The “Bernie Bro” Myth Persist?

Because the media isn’t doing their job?

¶ Posted 11 February 2020 § Internet § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: twitter

Great Article (But I Still Wish We Had A Film Industry in Saskatchewan!)

Layton Burton was one of the few who didn’t have to leave the province when the government cut the Film Tax Credit but he did have to go back to school in his 50’s and completely reinvent himself.

¶ Posted 03 February 2020 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Sad § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, movies, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Family (Un)Literacy Night: Some Highlights

Walked Sasha over to her school’s Family Literacy Night earlier this week and we didn’t even read one story at the “Reading Activity Station” but we sure had fun playing with the stuffed animals and telling stories using crazy voices. One mom sort of glared at us goofing around and I was this close to […]

¶ Posted 01 February 2020 § Humour § Library § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – When Politics Gets Hairy (January 2013)

Went to a meeting of my local constituency association tonight and was very impressed, not just with the big turnout on a frigid night but some of the numbers I’m hearing about fundraising and volunteers. Not sure if I’ll ever have as much fun as I did being part of the Ryan Meili leadership campaign […]