I wasn’t able to pop over for the live announcement like I usually do (and with current Covid stats in Sakatchewan, maybe that’s okay too?) But nice to have an archived livestream of this year’s SBA shortlist announcement…
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One Month To Camping (Maybe?)
Watched the Nickle Lake AGM livestream tonight (one good thing coming out of Covid is increasing use of video for things like this) and very excited to think that we might be in our campsite in a month…if it ever quits snowing so we don’t have to dress like this at our campsite!
Saturday Snap – Syrian Refugee Fundraiser
People displaced from Ukraine are (rightly) getting a lot of attention right now. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other groups that are suffering around the world. Shea and I were happy to attend this event earlier this week (though disappointed to not win one of the amazing looking cakes in the Silent Auction!) [Edit: […]
Music Monday – “Now the only thing a gamblin’ man ever needs/Is a suitcase, Lord, and a trunk/And the only time a fool like him is satisfied/Is when he’s all stone cold drunk”
Joni Mitchell won a Grammy last night for her “Archives Volume 1” album which features some long-lost masters from her first-ever recording session when she was 19 and a local DJ offered to help her make a demo tape at a local radio studio in Saskatoon. Pretty cool story! “House of the Rising Sun” – […]
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Welcome Jason! (October 2009)
My former colleagues from Southeast Regional Library welcomed me as an observer to their SILS training sessions that they were doing at the Regina Public Library training room prior to the move to a province-wide library consortium over ten (!) years ago. (Look at the size of those monitors!)
Some Thoughts on @RyanMeili Stepping Down as @Sask_NDP Leader
I’ve told the story on this blog, likely a few times, but with the recent announcement that Ryan Meili would be stepping down as Sask NDP Leader, it’s put me in a reflective mood. It’s starts with the fact that I’d always been interested in politics (at least once I got old enough to realise […]
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Premier Scott Moe Declares A State of Emergency (March 2020)
Now that Saskatchewan is in the midst of being one of the first provinces to remove basically all Covid-19 restrictions, stopping reporting Covid-19 stats except on a weekly basis and just generally pretending the pandemic is over because…reasons, I thought it’d be a nice bookend to revisit that initial press conference where Premier Moe first […]
Saturday Snap – #WhyIMissedTheProtestForFreedom #FluTrucksKlan
First, my wife and I took our daughter to her art class where she created and learned with about ten other kids… Before her class started, we went into the centre’s art gallery to check out the latest installation. We enjoyed this show with a handful of other people who were in the gallery including […]
We Have A Lot of Snow This Year!
I always had this sneaking suspicion that my memories of massively high snowbanks as a kid was influenced by the fact that I was, well, a kid, at the time and therefore, a medium-sized snowbank would’ve seemed like a mountain. Although a lot rarer than I remember as a kid, this year’s accumulated snowfall (and […]
“A Warm Glowing Lantern” – Design Unveiled For New Saskatoon Downtown Library #yxe
This looks amazing – can’t wait to visit! New Central libraries have been built in most major Canadian cities over the past decade from Halifax to Winnipeg to Calgary to Vancouver among many others. And now Saskatoon will join that list! Every single one of these new Central libraries have become community hubs, centres of […]