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Wisdom Wednesday – Five Takeaways From 2025 Canadian Election

One of the wildest elections in Canadian history – massive swings in fortunes, two party leaders losing their seats, the US being a major factor in the Canadian results, NDP reduced to non-party status after being arguably the most effective NDP caucus in history, electoral reform once again seems like a necessity. @aartipole1 It was […]

Posted 30 April 2025 § Canada § List § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

“Conservatives, Your Anger Is Valid. But it’s being hijacked.”

In light of yesterday’s election results and the repudiation of Pierre Poilievre’s “Maple MAGA” politics of anger, division and THREE WORD SLOGANS, I’m going to fully copy something I saw on Facebook that makes a lot of sense: Conservatives: your anger is valid. But it’s being hijacked. You’re not losing your country because of “woke […]

Posted 29 April 2025 § Canada § List § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Where Do You Find Jason At The NDP Volunteer Thank-You Party?

Standing alone in a corner stuffing his face with pizza! 😉

Posted 30 November 2024 § Humour § News § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

News Reporter Has Had Enough of Saskatchewan Winter Already

As they say on Reddit, this isn’t a parody of a small town news report but probably should be.

Posted 26 November 2024 § Humour § Jobs § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Random 2024 Saskatchewan Provincial Election Thoughts

The night the writ dropped a planned constituency association meeting was turned into a door knocking/sign planting evening. In my experience, when a house has two competing signs, it’s usually meant that a husband and wife support different candidates but I learned from my sign planting colleague that in her culture, this can also be […]

Posted 29 October 2024 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “It’s been too hard livin’/But I’m afraid to die?/Cause I don’t know what’s up there/Beyond the sky

It’s election season and though I’m posting this on Wednesday night instead of Monday like I’d hoped (kinda busy day!) so I know the results of the provincial election, the NDP’s changing fortunes have been on my mind (not to mention various other elections in other provinces, municipally and of course the massive US election […]

Posted 28 October 2024 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Saturday Snap – Backyard Movie

Nice weather means that Sasha and I got to watch our weekly October horror movie outside tonight!

Posted 19 October 2024 § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “We took their land, dilute their nations/Force them on to reservations/Corporate interest won’t stop there/Take the trees and leave this homeland bare, oh no”

“Homelands” – Jack’s Rake (Spirit of the West cover) Original:  

Posted 30 September 2024 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Back From Camping…

…and lots of amazing moments and memories: * Great visit with Shea’s cousin and family who are back from New Zealand for a month * About ten books on my “To Read During Camping” list.  (One book, not even on my list, is all I get read – thought I do work through a 377 […]

Posted 23 July 2024 § Family § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Gone Camping (July 2020)

Blogging will be very limited for the next few weeks as I focus on the important things in life such as reading, walking the dog, barbecuing hot dogs and other such pursuits.

Posted 27 June 2024 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,