Buffalo was rare to non-existent from what we could tell in Ontario. One of the specialty meat vendors in the Covent Market Garden told us that this was because Ontario didn't have the land to raise them like we did out west. Made sense to us but if you don't eat a lot of buffalo […]
I was fortunate enough to work with Shirley Dunn when she created this award a few years ago. It began as an award for Calgary and area writers and I remember telling her “It's too bad you can't go province-wide with it – or even beyond – as you'd get a lot more submissions and […]
I've heard from multiple people that the free David Suzuki lecture a couple weeks ago at U of R was awesome. I missed that but I'm not going to miss this one – I saw Stephen Lewis speak at CLA in Ottawa last summer and it was amazing. Here's the official blurb:As you may or […]
Following up on my promise from awhile ago to add an “About Me” page to this blog, I decided to do something a bit different than the traditional, paint-by-numbers, paragraph-long business-style bio or the fun but frivolous, paragraph-long informal version that many web sites have (er, no offense meant if that's what your web site […]
It's Telemiracle Weekend in Saskatchewan. This is an annual telethon, run by the province's Kinsmen Clubs, that's been held for the past 31 years in the province and which holds the Guinness World Record for most money raised per capita by a particular province/state/region. Since the turn of this century, Saskatchewan's one million people have […]
A pretty major announcement today from the Sask Government that by May, they will begin providing free wireless in the downtowns of our four largest cities – Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw and Prince Albert – as well as at some of our post-secondary institutions (which is probably a bit redundant since the Universities probably already […]
Now, far be it for me to take all the credit for Saskatchewan's first-ever Family Day. But I would like to point out that I made a very accurate prediction, way back in July 2006 about a holiday that was announced in late October of that same year (er, if you ignore the part where […]
I saw someone in London complaining on their blog or Facebook profile because they had to go to school when it was -12. All I can say is please look at the “feels like” line on the screencap below. Also “please don't ever whine about -12 again!” Being a good Saskatchewanite, -41 didn't stop me […]
Saskatchewan Round-UpSask Government Insurance, a crown corporation that provides insurance to all drivers in our province, is offering $180 rebates to safe drivers on their automobile insurance and lowering rates by an average of 5% as well (when we already have the lowest auto insurance rates in Canada – why do you think I love […]
These intrepid youths, standing outside the SaskPower building, show what happens when you throw boiling water in the air when the temperature is -40 (as it is today…hmm, that gives me an idea!)Here's the Alaskan version.
