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December, 2009:
Saskatoon Spending at a Glance
In case you are wondering how much more the City of Saskatoon has been spending since 2002, Sean Shaw has done some homework and created some visuals. The operating, capital, and debt servicing budgets have all been heading upwards. Coincidently enough, so have our taxes. While no one likes to pay taxes, Richard Florida does [...]
Charest’s second salary
There is an article in the Montreal Gazette over the Premier Jean Charest’s second salary of $75,000 by the Quebec Liberal Party. I am not going to pass judgment on it but I do have a quick question. Aren’t many party leaders paid salaries in addition to their jobs as MP/MLA and often times Leader [...]
Christmas with Reimers
We spent an early Christmas dinner with the Reimers and Kristy before the the Reimers head south to California for Christmas with their kids. It’s our family Christmas dinner and it is a really nice evening. The food is always good and during dinner I was having my second helping of a bean and mushroom [...]
When you thought that the Tiger Woods story could not get any stupider
More can be found here. This is just weird and I don’t know who it portrays as being worse. It gives the impression that their marriage is more of a financial transaction and not a marriage. I don’t know, maybe I should not be shocked, the rich have married for wealth, prestige, treaties, and in [...]
Selling out for the holidays
I have gotten a lot of feedback for my Christmas Gift Guides. It seems to fall into three categories: People selling their own books/gadgets/junk who are link baiting. People accusing me of selling out to rampant commercialism. People who are happy for the ideas. Let me explain the context that they are created in. Wendy [...]
Resonate 3.0 (beta)
Well Resonate is back online with a new look and feel and the website is now powered by WordPress. You can check out what Resonate is up to as a community, find out information about church planting, and also a listing of some of the emerging churches across the country. The RSS feed and Twitter [...]
