For the past few years, my aunt has come to stay with us for a month or so in May. She’s around for Pace’s birthday, helps watch the kids while we tackle some of our spring projects, uses our home as a base for visiting various friends from when she lived in Regina and otherwise […]
In the photo below, Sasha seems to be saying “Dad, if you raise your fist to this guy, you’re going to lose!” That’s not too far-fetched actually since, when I stepped up for my photo, I accidentally bumped into Wendel as I moved to stand beside him. “Hey, keep the elbows down!” he quipped and I was […]
Michael Franti used this video to propose to his girlfriend who happens to be a nurse from Saskatchewan which Shea informs me are two of the best qualities a woman can have! 😉
When I was in England on exchange in 1995, I would sometimes go to the college library and read the UK’s national papers. I still remember looking at the Travel section of The Weekend Times and seeing an ad for a “Cross-Canada Adventure”. After landing in the maritimes, you would take a coach through Quebec and […]
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 […]
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 […]
