Sean Shaw has a great post on the new Holiday Inn in Saskatoon. How can this type of development be avoided? It will take a conscious effort by City Council to mandate more stringent and enforceable development guidelines, not just for the Warehouse District but all new developments within the city – this hotel would [...]
July, 2011:
Column: Sask. homeless out of sight
My latest in The StarPhoenix When I started working at the Salvation Army homeless shelter, we had two dorms for men. While working at our front desk, I had clear instructions to fill up our larger dorm first as a resident in the second dorm didn’t play well with others. We had filled up enough [...]
How the Great Reset has already changed America
From Richard Florida in The Atlantic As many of our cities and older inner-ring suburbs are being renovated and revitalized, the great challenge of our time — far bigger than urban renewal was in decades past — is to remake our many shoddily-built, far-off exurbs into denser, more- connected, more livable communities. Some of them [...]
A Primer on the U.S. Debt Ceiling
A great primer from the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein. What happens if we don’t raise the debt ceiling but continue to pay interest on our bonds? This is an option known as “prioritization.” The Bipartisan Policy Center released a reportattempting to think through how this would work in practice, as it has never been attempted [...]
Ten Trillion & Counting
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE. PBS has an exceptional program on the U.S. national debt and it’s implications for the future of not only the United States but for much of the world. It’s staggering how the Bush administration took politics over economics every single time. As former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil said, [...]
CNN’s new advertising
I was watching CNN this week and was stunned by the poor job the anchor was doing bringing any kind of accountability to the Republican guest. Considering that their advertising was “Keeping them Honest”, they seem to do a horrible job of it, even their respected hosts like Wolf Blitzer. In an attempt to appear [...]
Why the Canadian Wheat Board Still Matters
From the Calgary Herald Essentially, grain growers in the Prairies (not the rest of Canada), are obligated to sell their wheat and barley destined for export, domestic milling or malting to the CWB. The board in turn sells those grains, and pools the final price back to grain farmers. Those grains destined for livestock feed [...]
Prince Charles feels overshadowed
First by Diana and now by William and Kate. Your Royal Highness, maybe it’s just you. Royal author Phil Dampier said: “Charles felt overshadowed by Diana and now it seems he feels overshadowed by their son. Some people may think he is jealous. I have always felt that as soon as William got married, Charles [...]
Column: There has to be more than tax cuts
My latest column in The StarPhoenix. I’ll add in some extra link later today but for now I need to get some work done for my other employer. Since the end of the Super Bowl, I have been following the National Football League lockout and the litigation surrounding it. I have concluded that the hard-line [...]
If Bill Simmons Ruled the NBA
From Grantland Greed in its rawest form. That’s the National Football League’s lockout. Both sides were like two billionaire drug cartels splitting up a massive cocaine shipment who got pissed off and just started shooting each other. "You took too much! I saw that!!!" They will settle next week and slink into the sunset with [...]
