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Beyond The Statistics: Prairie Woman Creates Facebook Page to Humanize Covid Stories

The creator of a FB page promoting the honest, non-partisan sharing of Covid experiences was a couple years behind me in school and I know her dad and family as well. It’s tragic that the reason she created this page was because her dad is one of many people in Indian Head affected by Covid […]

¶ Posted 17 November 2020 § MemoryLane § Sad § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, education, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Grandma at the Golden Prairie Nursing Home, Indian Head, SK (April 2004) #skpoli

As rumours spread that at least two dozen people in the community have Covid, my hometown of Indian Head, Saskatchewan is facing a jump in Covid cases that has affected the nursing home, local businesses and now both the elementary and high schools which are going to be closed for two weeks. WATCH: Over the […]

¶ Posted 12 November 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, education, saskatchewan, science

Reviewing Ryan #skpoli #skvotes

Okay, a week has passed, most of the races potentially impacted by mail-in ballots have been decided, and since we just celebrated Halloween, what better time to assess a very scary election result for the NDP? I was going to do a more general post with my random election thoughts but since at least four […]

¶ Posted 01 November 2020 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – NDP Means A Healthy Society (February 2013) #skpoli #skvotes

This is a very cool poster that Ryan Meili’s team created during his 2013 leadership run. The design may be retro but the message is more timely than ever as Saskatchewan and the entire world try to figure out the best way forward in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. I don’t know about you […]

¶ Posted 15 October 2020 § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Well, the nobles said to the people, ‘You better close your public schools/Until the events of death has ending, you better close your churches too.'”

Jack White absolutely kicked ass on SNL this weekend as a last-minute, emergency fill-in guest. Ironically, since he was covering for a country singer who the show cancelled for blatantly disregarding Covid restrictions, White played a mash-up of a few different songs including an old blues tune written about the pandemic of 1918… If that […]

¶ Posted 12 October 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, Covid, history, music, television

Secular Sunday – Judgement Is Executed on Covid By Evangelical Leaders

This’ll show Covid! (Fun challenge – pretend you know nothing about this video and watch with the sound off then see if this guy seems at all healthy or well-balanced.)

¶ Posted 11 October 2020 § Humour § Jobs § News § PopCulture § SecularSunday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, language

Trump looks like he is gasping for air pic.twitter.com/4k2v4Jxlir — Brennan Murphy (@brenonade) October 5, 2020 There’s a lot of controversy about Trump, his Covid diagnosis, and what is the “appropriate” reaction to the serious illness of such a divisive figure. Now, normally, most people would not wish death on anyone else unless they […]