Thomas Friedman has an amazing column in the New York Times today about America being in decline. On top of it all, our bank crisis is not over. Two weeks ago, Goldman Sachs analysts said that U.S. banks may need another $65 billion to cover more write-downs of bad mortgage-related instruments and potential new losses [...]
June, 2008:
More funding for affordable housing
The Government of Saskatchewan made my work a lot easier with an announcement today that they were increasing certain aspects of Social Services funding, especially for emergency shelter rates and per room rates, both which have a huge impact on what we do around here. For us who are working extremely hard in getting an [...]
Survivor
I survived my time at Riverbend Institution and have some photos to show our barbecue preparations on the Centre’s Flickr page. 200+ hamburgers, 200 smokies, and a lot of salad, dessert, and drinks. It was a pretty nice afternoon for everyone and I was able to connect with some guys that used to be at [...]
Off to Jail
I am off to the Saskatchewan Penitentiary outside of Prince Albert for the day. The half-way house at work is hosting a barbecue up there and I off with some other co-workers to meet some inmates who will coming up for parole soon. My department also handles some guys who are out on voluntary parole [...]
Workfare
On Friday I was with some co-workers as we viewed a four-plex on the west side of Saskatoon. It had tenants living in it and it was worse than I ever thought was possible. Human feces, needles, people drinking early in the morning and kids running around in that environment. There had been some water [...]
