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What If Saskatchewan Had Proportional Representation? #skpoli #skvotes

With at least eight ridings still to be decided, I’ll likely do a longer post with some thoughts on the Sask Election once the mail-in ballots are counted and we know what the final count is. But after a conversation on Twitter with a former high school classmate who felt the BC election didn’t represent […]

¶ Posted 27 October 2020 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, saskatchewan

Obama Unleashed

It’s hard to know which way to turn if you’re a political junkie and there’s a municipal election, a provincial election, (nearly) a federal election and a major US election – all within a couple weeks. But this one definitely caught my eye yesterday…

¶ Posted 21 October 2020 § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – I Didn’t Live Through The Great Depression…

…but I still can’t help but throw this small piece of twine into our junk drawer “just in case.” (My grandparents would be proud!) 😉

¶ Posted 17 October 2020 § Humour § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

(Not Quite) Live Blogging The #skvotes Leader’s Debate #skpoli

A few hot takes as I watched the debate… Does Molly Thomas still live in Sask? If not, weird optics to fly in a debate moderator from out-of-province during a pandemic. Moe looks very nervous right out of the gate, not what I expected from the Premier and frontrunner. Drink! Moe says NDP has record […]

¶ Posted 14 October 2020 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, 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, health, music, television

Friday Fun Link – Favourite Hockey Equipment Oddities

Free Agency Day in the NHL is normally on July 1 bur with all the Covid weirdness, the date got pushed back to today. The Flames signed Jacob Markstrom, one of the highest rated goalies available which is awesome since my team hasn’t had a true #1 goalie since Miikka Kiprusoff. This is as good […]

¶ Posted 09 October 2020 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, hockey

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 […]