On Saturday, Wendy and I went out to the new Wal-Mart Super Centre in Saskatoon. Despite not being a Wal-Mart fan, I am not a Wal-Mart hater like some of you. Despite that, I wasn’t really impressed. The Pros Wendy said that the grocery prices were cheaper than Co-op or Safeway or but about the [...]
January, 2010:
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
CBC Marketplace exposes what goes on behind the scenes at the Rich Dad, Poor Dad seminars being offered across Canada. This is what they found. Marketplace also discovered that claims by at least one trainer were exaggerated. The trainer said he made millions on a mobile home park in Saskatchewan — a park that turned [...]
Steve Fonyo O.C.
The Toronto Star on Steve Fonyo losing his Order of Canada He figures he deserved the prize when he received it, and ought to be able to keep it. But there’s something curiously apt about his losing the Order of Canada, yet retaining the Humanitarian Award he also shares with Frank Sinatra. The ballad of [...]
The best Super Bowl bet ever
Everyone knows governors and mayors make bets all of the time over the outcome of playoff games and championships. It usually involves the loser wearing the winning jersey and a gift exchanged to another city but this bet is between two art galleries. The Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art [...]
The Blue Jays in 2010
Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports breaks down the Toronto Blue Jays chances in 2010. Anthopoulos recognized quickly what Tampa Bay and Baltimore did a few seasons back: Competing in the AL East, particularly against New York and Boston, often takes an organizational retooling. He can’t rid himself of Wells, so Anthopoulos took his most valuable [...]
HD Webcam from Microsoft
Ever since the Apple iSight came out, I have been clamoring for a webcam that would rival the Apple iSight. I assumed it would come from Logitech but it actually came from Microsoft. It’s only several years late but it’s finally here and it has HD. It’s about time. While I am linking to Jordon [...]
Salvation Army Week of Compassion for Haiti
The Salvation Army in Saskatoon is embarking on a special fundraising event to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. From February 1-6, the Salvation Army kettles – normally seen during our annual Christmas campaigns – will be out at shopping malls and stores across Saskatoon. We need volunteers to make this happen. If [...]
Start Your Tim Tebow Comparisons Now!
Apparently Tim Tebow had a really bad first practice at the Senior Bowl. Since I have a disproportionate amount of Florida State Seminoles fans who read this site, I thought I would toss in the juicy bits below. But when he showed up Monday for the first day of heavy scrutiny at the Senior Bowl, [...]
Prorogue
I know I am from the west and for whatever reason means that I don’t understand what people in Ontario think but I just can’t get upset over Harper proroguing government. First of all, let me just say that I totally disagreed with the decision to prorogue government out of principle. The question of Canada [...]
Add two more to the “community of communities”
My friends Greg and Jackie’s adopted Haitian kids are in Canada tonight and they are able to give their twins a new home. After ten days of incompetence and indecision from the Government of Canada (while the rest of the world acted), things have finally worked out. The result is that God’s Littlest Angels orphanage [...]
WinterShines
Saskatoon is a wonderful place to live and work in the summer, maybe the greatest place in the world but in the winter it is a cold, windy, miserable place which has only three colors of nature, white, great, and brown. To help us survive winter without going crazy, Tourism Saskatoon has launched WinterShines which [...]
Contextless Links
Learning from Katrina, White House’s Haiti PR effort includes an effective “ticktock.” Geithner’s influence in the White House may have slipped during the rise of Volcker Bob Rae, King of proroguing Op: Haiti was already everybody’s favorite tragedy, but what marks Haitians is heroism and pride SS-N-22 Sunburn is the NATO designation for a Russian-made [...]
