There’s a popular story making the rounds on social media to help people in positions of privilege understand exactly what the concept means and what it affords them. The essence of the story is that a high school teacher sets a recycling bin at the front of the room then gives his students wads of paper […]
An essay explaining how both “Corner Gas” the TV show and now the movie reflect the best of Canada: In fact the entire movie, about a tiny town going bankrupt, is really about how we, in Canada, react to crisis. It’s about us at our best and worst. The humour is absurdist, never mean-spirited. The […]
Pirate Bay taken down by Swiss authorities It will likely be up again very soon in a different form and/or with a different URL SaskTel rumoured to begin sending copyright infringement notices to its Internet customers in the new year
As a follow-up to my post about SparkleTour.ca, Shea and I ended up doing a mini-sparkle tour in the north end last night after running a couple errands. One of our stops was an area called Candy Cane Lane where the residents of the Normanview community are encouraged to decorate their homes for Christmas. One […]
[Edit: Yikes! When I posted this, didn’t realize there was a mini-controversy about a local radio station stealing the name and data from the original Sparkletour web site. Bah-humbug!] It’s now less than a month to Christmas. Sparkletour.ca helps you get into the spirit of the season with an ever-growing list of houses worth checking […]
A caller to CBC Radio’s Morning Edition has an epic rant after the show host says the weekend weather will be “nice” at -1 degree. 24 Pictures That Capture How Insane the Snowmaggedon in Buffalo Really Is
This is another annual tradition on this blog. I’m fudging a bit this year as the snow fell overnight from Monday to Tuesday but since it fits better as a Music Monday post, here’s my annual post of one of my favourite Hawksley Workman songs posted on a Tuesday but dated for Monday! 😉 “First […]
Pace’s first “big” word was “tractor” and we were so impressed, we bought a Christmas yard decoration that year to commemorate the milestone he’d reached earlier that year. Now I’ve set it up for Sasha and guess which word she repeated back to us today? Yep…
If this is true, this is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen on Reddit… A user called “MySecretIsOut” who just joined Reddit today has posted a map on /r/regina and /r/canada which they seem to be claiming would lead to the location of Tamra Keepness, a young woman whose disappearance ten years ago resulted in a […]
Went out to our farm today and got to spend some time watching the family friend who we now rent our land to and his crew harvesting. Lots of fond memories for Shea and I watching the combines go around the field (okay, it was usually just a single combine when we were growing up – […]
