The Salvation Army Community Services of Saskatoon is hiring again for the Men’s Residential Hostel and our Half-Way House. It’s five shifts. Three weekdays from 4-12 p.m. and two weekend shifts from 8-4. Your days off are consistent, benefits are good, your supervisor may or may not be tolerable, and there is no forced overtime. [...]
March, 2010:
Historical Housing (brought to you by Google Street View)
This is the first home we owned in Calgary. It looked a lot better before it was totally overgrown by shrubs. In 1980, we moved into this house. The ugly hedge wasn’t there but there was a basketball hoop that has gone missing. In 1984, as my parents divorce was finalizing, we had literally no [...]
The Cost of Homelessness
I had an opportunity to speak as a panel at City Hospital yesterday to a room of social workers on the cost of homelessness. The Star Phoenix did cover a bit of what I talked about in today’s paper. Implementing a plan with the idea that "everything starts with housing" is among the initiatives different [...]
The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes
In honor of World Water Day, I present this post and video from 1968. In this short documentary from conservationist Bill Mason, he illustrates that although the Great Lakes have had their ups and downs, nothing has been harder to take than what humans have done to them lately. In the film, a lone canoeist [...]
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Sullivan: Obama not only rescued the U.S. economy, he passed the biggest piece of social legislation in decades Obama and Republicans both plan blitz to spin reform’s meaning Six billion dollars later, the Afghan police force is inadequate, “riddled with corruption,” and absolutely necessary The economics of the mushy middle From everything I have heard, [...]
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The Sleaziest Coach in a Sleazy Game The world’s first skyscraper with built in wind turbines approaches completion :: It’s hard to believe this hasn’t been done already. Paris in 26 Gigapixels We did manage to get up to the cabin for a couple of hours last Saturday, here are the photos. I concur, Tiger’s [...]
Robert Fife on how Helen Guergis’ cabinet position is in jeopardy
The Globe and Mail has the summary According to Mr. Fife, Ms. Guergis has been telling people that she has grounds to sue Air Canada after the report of her tantrum was leaked to the media. Mr. Fife says senior Conservatives have told him this suggests “she just doesn’t get it.” Certainly there are high-profile [...]
Brady Quinn
The Denver Broncos acquire Brady Quinn. The Broncos acquired the former first-round draft pick from the Cleveland Browns for fullback Peyton Hillis, a 2011 sixth-round draft pick and a conditional pick in 2012. Not a good sign if you are Kyle Orton and want a new contract and as for Chris Simms, well it’s been nice [...]
Christine Blanchard on the Rahim Jaffer case
From the Globe and Mail During the Jaffer discussions, the prosecutor apparently realized that what she had was a dog’s breakfast of a case. Because of the protected nature of the discussions, we don’t know precisely what the problems were, but they must have been substantial for Ms. Balogh to determine she had no shot [...]
Michael Jordan: Owner
So Michael Jordan is about to take over the Charlotte Bobcats. I am not the only one that thinks he will be horrible at it. This is from Yahoo! Sports. You’re going to have to get it together, though, Mike. You’re going to have to grow up, first and foremost. Nothing starts until your childhood [...]
