I have never been a big fan of NDP leader Jack Layton but this week just seemed to sum it all up. Every time I flipped on the news, there was Jack talking up a storm about Stephen Harper’s secret agenda in changing the name of Indian and Northern Affairs to the more politically correct [...]
May, 2011:
The mess that is hospital insurance in the United States
I read this over at Meg Hourihan’s blog and am still shocked that people disagree with health care reform. I haven’t had employer-provided health care in over ten years, which means I’ve been paying for individual or small group insurance for myself and now my family every month. Every year my premiums increase by 30%, [...]
Atlanta to Winnipeg
Ever since Winnipeg decided to build the MTS Centre to only hold just over 15,000 people, I have questioned whether they would ever get a NHL team back. Well it appears they will but the question remains, will it be sustainable in the smallest hockey arena in the league. The Boston Globe doesn’t think so. [...]
Dodge Charger anyone?
A former basketball player at THE Ohio State University has some questions over what he sees going on in the football program. I frequently crossed paths with a bunch of the football guys for a variety of reasons (stayed in the same dorm as some of them during my freshman year, went to same place [...]
The world’s first newspaper website?
Back at the turn of the century, the Boston Globe would hang large handwritten signs out front with headlines which looked like the world’s first newspaper website/blog. They eventually added a sports website, with streaming audio. RSS hadn’t caught on yet so the readers had to actually visit the site. This photo was taken during [...]
Fred Wilpon
Jeffrey Toobin has an excellent in-depth New Yorker profile of New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon, long known as an honourable businessman who has been caught up in the Bernie Madoff scandal. The Wilpon team believes that Picard and his top deputy, David Sheehan, have shown excessive zeal in pursuing the case. Madoff agrees. “When [...]
Depression haunts homeless children
From Minnesota Public Radio A new report by the Wilder Foundation estimates 4,500 children in Minnesota spend time in shelters on any given night — the highest number since the surveys began 20 years ago. Those children are often haunted by depression, the study shows. Whether homeless children and teens get help and support has [...]
Focus! Focus!
I loved this blurry photo from yesterday’s StarPhoenix. The autofocus on the camera focused on Cameco CEO’s Jerry Grandey’s suit (nice suit!) and not his face. I am not sure if this was the best photo of the bunch, a commentary on how great the suit was, or if the editor’s glasses were stolen but [...]
The Rocky Mountaineer
A couple of months ago I was looking around online for a trip to take Wendy on our anniversary. After checking out VIA Rail (train comes through Saskatoon at midnight and goes through Edmonton and Jasper, not Banff), I saw something about The Rocky Mountaineer and spent hours checking out their website and looking at [...]
