Thomas Nelson is releasing a new book called Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. This book will be on special discount from Amazon.com on June 1st, the date of the release. I got to know Frank Viola a little bit at Soularize in the Bahamas [...]
May, 2010:
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James Fallows wonders how one can save the news and Google’s role in it :: The problem Google is aware of involves the disruption still ahead. Ten years from now, a robust and better-funded news business will be thriving. What next year means is harder to say. I asked everyone I interviewed to predict which [...]
A look back
My early ideas on Social Services were shaped by the Devine Tories. As some of you know, the first campaign I worked on was the 1986 provincial election campaign that saw Grant Devine and the Progressive Conservatives re-elected. Devine was confronted with a large budget deficit, an extremely effective NDP opposition party, an ongoing drought [...]
Apartment Fire in Saskatoon This Afternoon
From CBC News A devastating fire at a Saskatoon apartment block on Monday has left as many as 22 families homeless. The blaze broke out on a main floor balcony at 136 Avenue U South. in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood at about 4 p.m. CST and quickly engulfed the entire building. "Within less than 10 [...]
The Complex Story of Poverty in Saskatoon
Over the last couple of months I have had a lot of conversations off the record or as background on stories for local and some national media reporters around the topic of addictions, life on the street, homelessness, and poverty. One of the things that comes up is the phrase, “we don’t know how to [...]
Last week at The Outfitters
Here are some of my favorite products posted to the Outfitters in the last week. Pentax Optio W90 Camera :: If you are looking for a rugged camera, you won’t beat this one. Littlebug Stove :: A great cook stove that doesn’t require much fuel while having a variety of fuel options. Panasonic Lumix G10 [...]
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Why Bruins fans will never forget the pain of losing to the Philadelphia Flyers :: Brianna works with patients of traumatic brain injuries, and they call it perseverating. You can change the topic a 100 times, but they’ll still focus on their cat Simon, regardless of your assurances that the thing got run over by [...]
The World’s Worst PowerPoint Slide
As the New York Times puts it, we have seen the enemy and it is Powerpoint. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl [...]
Canada’s Personal Debt Crisis
According to the Globe and Mail Sometimes, recessions can breed a hunker-down-and-save mentality. Not so this time. Canadian household debt – a perennial worry in recent years – has ballooned to a point where it’s now more than double 1989 levels – just as rising borrowing costs are set to squeeze budgets, a national report [...]
