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Calgary Flames Fans Debate Vaccine Requirements

This thread may be the biggest shit show in the history of CalgaryPuck, a Calgary Flames fan site/message board I’ve been reading since 2001. What starts as a discussion of the Jets announcing they’ll require proof of vaccination devolves as a series of antivaxxers keep popping up to make all sorts of logically and factually […]

New Southeast Regional Library (@srlhq) “Little Library” at Nickle Lake Regional Park

Can’t wait to check out (er, pun intended?) this little library out this weekend (and on a related note, I was hanging out with the new Weyburn Library Branch Head last weekend too. Yep, I’m that cool!) 🙂 The “Beaver Den” is the park’s arts & craft shack but I’m still bitter that my entry […]

¶ Posted 28 July 2021 § Jobs § Library § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, camping, economics, saskatchewan

Glad I’m Not That Guy! ;-)

Always sad to hear libraries that are facing great challenges. 🙁

¶ Posted 06 July 2021 § Jobs § Library § News § Sad § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

Happy Fourth of July! (And Where Would Sask Rate in Fully Vaccinated Rate If We Were A US State?)

On July 4th when President Biden had set (and missed) a goal of 70% of Americans receiving at least their first vaccine, this list of where states are at in terms of full vaccinations is interesting (and probably not surprising) . In case, the link dies, the top 3 are: Vermont (66%) Massachusetts (62%) Maine […]

¶ Posted 04 July 2021 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, health, science, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Canada Day In Happier Times (July 2008)

Three years ago, I was placing second in our campground’s annual “Canada Day Decorating” contest. This year? Don’t really feel like decorating too much (though I did have a few ideas to subvert the contest but couldn’t find 751 orange helium balloons in time!) 🙁 At the risk of sounding like somebody on /r/entlightenedcentrism, I’m […]

¶ Posted 01 July 2021 § Canada § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health, history, saskatchewan

Con-grad-ulations Pace!

We are so incredibly proud of the young man Pace has become. Bring on high school!

¶ Posted 29 June 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Every night, I say a prayer/In the hopes that’s there’s a Heaven.”

I don’t think Pace has a theme song for his grade eight grad today. In my hometown, I went to elementary school until grade six then to high school in grade seven and I didn’t have a grade six grad theme song either (that I remember.). But it’s got me thinking back to my own […]

¶ Posted 28 June 2021 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § Photo § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: parents

Secular Sunday – Shining A Light

Powerful image of 751 solar lights during a vigil to recognize the children found in unmarked graves at Cowessess First Nation…

¶ Posted 27 June 2021 § Canada § News § Photo § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sask Book Awards/Alberta Book Awards (multiple years from 1997 to present)

Tonight was the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards and I also recently found the 2021 Alberta Book Awards on social media. I spent nearly a decade in the literary non-profit sector and both served on the board of the SBA for a few years (as well as a frequent volunteer doing everything from taking tickets to […]