Category: Saskatchewan

GG Award Winner, Art Slade, Coming To FIMS – All Details Finalized!

  Below is an e-mail I just sent out to the department’s mailing list. I really *really* want a good crowd out for this event so I have

Saskatchewan Songs

I compiled a list of Saskatchewan songs for a fellow student so thought I would post it here as a counterpoint to my SW Ontario playlist entry.  (This

9/11 Five Years Later

Woke up at 8am today to watch the real-time video stream of CNN's coverage from five years ago that they're showing all day today. Here's my own real-time

How News Travels In A Small Town

My wife and I recently played a practical joke on my mother-in-law, Joan.  If you haven't read about it, go read that first.  Don't worry…I'll wait.Okay, got it? 

Viewer's Choice

Brigette Gall, who is from Shea's hometown (Creelman, SK, population: 85), has been put on the long shortlist for the Viewer's Choice Gemini Award for “Best Lifestyle Host”

Some Other Thoughts & Highlights from the Fred Eaglesmith Picnic

– I have a theory that every time you go to a music festival, one artist will become a revelation.  That theory held true at the Fred Picnic

Tall Grass Prairie Bread Company – A Great Story from CBC's Vinyl Cafe

I just accidently deleted a longish post with some more thoughts and highlights from the Fred Eaglesmith picnic so instead of trying to recreate it right now, I'll

How To Get Kicked Out of the Librarian's Guild

My wife was recently back in Saskatchewan to visit her parents and during her time there, she got her mom's library card number and PIN number so that

Saskatchewan Targets Alberta For Labour

“Saskatchewan is experiencing the largest skilled labour shortage in the country” according to Citizenship and Immigration Minister, Monte Solberg who recently announced a new program to bring skilled

Memory Lane: 85 Years of Saskatchewan License Plates

This book showed up in my mailbox at school the other day courtesy “The Book Fairy”.  Can you imagine why a library in our nation's capital would ever

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