Category Archives: Saskatchewan

"New Rider Regime: Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" – Saskabush

Saskabush is like Saskatchewan's answer to The Onion (but with a much more random yet much less frequent publishing schedule.)  Not sure how the humour translates outside the borders of the flatlands but as someone who lives here, I find the writer laugh-out-loud funny on a frequent basis.  So, in light of the recent provincial […]

Saskatchewan Election Prediction

A few other bloggers are doing this so I thought I'd throw my two pence in the ring…Saskatchewan Party – 44NDP – 11Liberals – 3Man, I hope the Sask Party isn't as bad as the Grant Devine Conservatives.  But it's looking like 1982 all over again. 

Randomness (Happy Guy Fawkes Night)

Not sure how it started but I used to have a slightly more frequent tradition of clearing out the various tidbits I'd been sent by e-mail, found on the web and some of the other random thoughts banging around my head in one big post, tied for some unknown reason, to a holiday, well-known or […]

Sask Political Parties Positions on Public Libraries

At work, I was asked to do some advocacy work on behalf of the Saskatchewan Library Trustees’ Association in advance of the upcoming provincial election which happens on November 7.(Okay, I didn’t get to have any actual input myself – I was mainly doing the grunt work of setting up a mailing list and coordinating […]

Going To The Candidate's Debate (Weyburn-Big Muddy Version)

There's a provincial election coming up in Saskatchewan in about ten days (November 7) so Shea and I took the opportunity to go to the candidate's debate at her old high school tonight – even though we're planning to vote in our home riding in Regina.  I'm too tired to analyze what we heard too […]

A Deer in the Qu'Appelle Valley

Before stuffing ourselves with turkey yesterday, Shea, Pace, my parents and I took a drive to Katepwa Lake which is about fifteen minutes north of my hometown of Indian Head. I've probably mentioned before that our family has a farm on the edge of the Qu'Appelle Valley and my dad had told me that a […]

Internet Use in Small Town and Rural Canada

Despite the potential of the Internet as a tool to overcome distance, living in rural and small town Canada continues to be a factor associated with lower rates of Internet use, according to a new study released today in the Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletin. The study, which uses data from the Canadian […]

Evolution of "The Banjo Bowl"

CANOE — SLAM! Sports – CFL – Winnipeg: Evolution of the Banjo Bowl (Hate to say it but I think the Riders are due for the loss today, especially after how the game ended last week.  The Bombers will be pumped for today.  I hope I'm wrong.)

How Good Is the CFL This Year?

I turned on the end of the BC-Calgary game on Friday to see a wicked back and forth tussle ending with the new (?) overtime format where the teams play two “mini-games”, each team starting at their opponent's respective 35-yard lines with regular rules in place to as they attempt to score.  The game ended […]

How To Suck The Air From Your Lungs, Saskatchewan Style

I did a post like this during the coldest part of the winter so I'll do another one during the hottest day (so far) of the summer…  We set a record today in Weyburn  – I just did this screen cap below now but the highest point reached today was 42 degrees. (Does anywhere else […]