Nicholas Schmindle reports in the New Yorker on what happened leading up to and during the raid that killed Bin Laden. The Americans hurried toward the bedroom door. The first SEAL pushed it open. Two of bin Laden’s wives had placed themselves in front of him. Amal al-Fatah, bin Laden’s fifth wife, was screaming in [...]
August, 2011:
Running for Saskatoon City Council 101
Over the last couple of weeks The StarPhoenix has been running profiles of declared candidates for Ward 3’s by-election. As I read the profile, the first thing I do is Google each candidate to find out more. Unlike other by-elections, in this one there isn’t a single website to be found which can’t be good. [...]
Running for Saskatoon City Council 101
Over the last couple of weeks The StarPhoenix has been running profiles of declared candidates for Ward 3’s by-election. As I read the profile, the first thing I do is Google each candidate to find out more. Unlike other by-elections, in this one there isn’t a single website to be found which can’t be good. [...]
Saskatchewan Seat Projections
From ThreeHundredEight.com A couple of interesting things to note. The Saskatchewan Party is leading in Saskatoon Eastview and in Meewasin which puts Judy Junor and Frank Quenell’s seats at risk. Both are longtime NDP MLA’s and former cabinet ministers. Quenell has pulled difficult elections out in the past and the 17% Liberal support could easily [...]
Need Help with School Supplies? The Salvation Army Can Help
This is modified post that I posted at the Salvation Army weblog. The last couple of years the Salvation Army Community Services has been collecting and distributing school supplies for families who need some help in getting their children ready for school. This year The StarPhoenix helped our cause with a great article about what we [...]
Column: No easy solution to riots
My StarPhoenix column this week One of the questions from the London riots was: Can it happen here? It does. North Americans have been rioting for a long time. Detroit has had two major race riots in 25 years. Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta have all been home to violent unrest. New York was home [...]
The Problem with City Centre Church
This isn’t a theological post so don’t worry. It’s actually about urban design and it’s a problem that Safeway/City of Saskatoon created, City Centre Church just inherited. For those of you who don’t know, City Centre Church bought an old Safeway store on 20th Street. I walk by periodically and something about it has really [...]
Looking at harm reduction from a Christian perspective
So Calgary has stopped giving out free crack pipes as part of it’s harm reduction strategy. Since 2008, Alberta Health Services had been giving out crack-pipe kits as part of the Safeworks program, an effort to reduce transmittable diseases. The kits contained a glass pipe, mouthpiece and cleaning tool and were handed out in an [...]
“Because the first place most of us want to experiment with looser building codes is 320 kilometres out to sea.”
Tabatha Southey has this fantastic column in today’s Globe & Mail on a new libertarian society 320 kilometres out in the ocean. Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of PayPal and Facebook financier, has also embarked on a plan for a new society, for which the location has already been decided and money may not be [...]
Can Canada assert its sovereignty over the Arctic
Especially when we can’t even get a handle on some of the worst social issues in the country? Iqaluit Mayor Madeleine Redfern has two Twitter accounts on which she chronicles the ups and downs of the Nunavut capital. On the plus side of her online ledger is the recent catch of a 70-tonne bowhead whale [...]
When do you stop spending?
Jim Flaherty said today that he would spend to defend Canada from another recession. Under questioning from opposition MPs, Flaherty said for the first time that the Conservative government would move in with another round of stimulus spending if the world economy suffers a double-dip recession. “We would obviously do what is needed” if there [...]
