July, 2011:

14 Ways to Create Jobs in this Economy

Few Presidents have been able to create jobs like Bill Clinton did during his eight years in office. In Newsweek (it still exists?) he outlines 14 ideas for creating more jobs. 2. CASH FOR STARTUPS If you start a business tomorrow, I can give you all the tax credits in the world, but since you [...]

Saskatoon’s Watering Restrictions

Jul 9th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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This summer I bought and then blended the idea combination of grass seed for my drive way. We have a large tree right in the middle of it which means paving it, putting in paving stones or really doing anything with it isn’t going to happen. Instead I decided to copy my neighbour across the [...]

Cutting our own wrists

Jul 8th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Back in 2005 I saw a link to a review of Jared Diamond’s book Collapse on the New Yorker website. Malcolm Gladwell was telling the story of Norse settlers coming to Greenland a millennium ago and I found the story fascinating. Even to the Norse, Greenland was not a place that one would want to [...]

My Caesar Salad Recipe

Jul 7th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Wendy posted my families Caesar Salad Dressing Recipe over at The Cooking Blog. It’s worth a try and 1000 times better than that crap you buy at the grocery store.

!@#&* WordPress

Jul 7th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Well I performed the upgrade for WordPress 3.2 on my blog today and things went very smooth. So smooth I was thinking I was on par with Matt Wiebe. Then reality hit when I hit “upgrade” on Wendy’s weblog and the whole thing died. I restored her database from a backup and slowly brought it [...]

Is Our Food Killing Us?

Jul 7th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Default: Bachmann vs Boehner

Jul 7th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Joe Trippi & Paul Goldman writes in Politico The debt ceiling issue is the first defining GOP presidential event because Bachmann is the only serious candidate with a vote in Congress. Tea party backers want to see her self-proclaimed “titanium spine.” If she plays it right, she can win huge. If not, she can become [...]

Column: Oil prices will force changes

Jul 4th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Today’s column in The StarPhoenix Former CIBC economist Jeff Rubin was one of the first to say that oil would hit $100 a barrel, back when it was around $20. Now he is suggesting it could go to $200 in the next short while unless there’s another global recession. While many call for more drilling [...]

Anyone see anything wrong with this ad?

Jul 3rd, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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If you can’t tell the difference between a Windows Phone and an iPhone, how do we trust you to get the important things right. Everyone asks me why I care if a news outlet spells my name right. CBC is the absolute worst for this. On camera I spell out my name. I give the [...]

Getting Schooled.

Jul 3rd, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Warren Kinsella takes on Michael Ignatieff’s essay on what it means to be a Canadian. Before he brought in the gaggle of geniuses who helped him to pilot the once-great Liberal Party of Canada into history’s ditch, I was an adviser to Michael Ignatieff. I didn’t know the guy, particularly, but I was friends with [...]

wendycooper.org

Jul 2nd, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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After deciding she wasn’t fond of the ads on WordPress.com and $30 seemed a little steep to go ad-free when she can get free hosting with my account, Wendy decided to purchase www.wendycooper.org and migrate her blog to her own install of WordPress. That was the easy part. The hard part was picking out a [...]

An open letter to The StarPhoenix.

Jul 2nd, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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It’s spelled Jordon, not Jordan. That is all. cc: CBC Saskatchewan

Charlie Clark wants to lower city speed limits to what I thought they already were

Jul 2nd, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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I was a little surprised by this article in today’s StarPhoenix for the simple reason that I would have said under oath that I was absolutely sure that side street speed limits were already 40 km/h. I was wrong, they are 50 km/h. Charlie Clark wants to lower them back to 40 km/h. A city [...]

Back to basics

Jul 1st, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Wendy decided to move her site from WordPress.com back to Blogger this weekend. The move went okay but Blogger is having problems importing new blogs right now. You can find her at iamwendycooper.blogspot.com from now on. Her RSS feed remains the same and of course you can find her on Twitter at @wendycooper.