I posted an anecdote about Kurt Vonnegut from author Dave Margoshes a couple entries back. In the course of writing to ask permission to do this, I also took the opportunity to ask Dave, who also acts as the food critic with the local Prairie Dog weekly newspaper, if he’d be willing to give me […]
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Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan is Online
There are a number of astounding stats about The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan which came out during Saskatchewan's Centennial in 2005. Most pages of any book ever published in Saskatchewan. Most contributors. Most illustrations. Longest gestation time. Heaviest. The print edition is an amazing book and now, the CPRC has put the whole thing online for […]
You Know You're From A Small Town When…
I used the following list when I did up a “mini-yearbook” for our 10 year high school reunion and came across it recently in a new Facebook group dedicated to the topic. So I thought I'd re-post it here. You Know You're From A Small Town When… 1. You can name everyone you graduated with. […]
Your Next NDP Candidate in the Souris-Moose Mountain Constituency Is…
A couple months ago, I wrote about how I attended the local NDP association's AGM with Shea's uncle who's big with the NDP (he ran in the 2000 Federal election) during a visit to Weyburn. During the meeting, one old-timer had leaned over and asked if I might be interested in running. I told him […]
Tommy Douglas on Librarians
One of the books I've got on the go right now is an oral history of Tommy Douglas called “Touched By Tommy: Stories of Hope and Humour About Canada's Most Loved Political Leader, T.C. Douglas”I thought this anecdote about librarians was funny:“Everyone was saying nice things about John Archer. He was leaving the Legislative Library […]
Buffalo Burgers – Shea's Recipe
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 […]
Dave Greber Award – Call For Submissions
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 […]
Stephen Lewis To Speak at U of R
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 […]
About Me (A Timeline of My Life)
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 […]
Ring Those Phones!
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 […]