Jeremy Klazus has a great article on the trials and tribulations of Prairie Bible College. Opinionated alumni and donors have long scolded PBI leaders for deviating even slightly from the status quo. Even L.E. got flak. After spending 19 years as a missionary in Japan, a Prairie grad named Marvin L. Fieldhouse returned to PBI, [...]
September, 2011:
Brian Topp
Last week I got an invitation from Pat Atkinson to meet NDP leadership candidate Brian Topp at Amigo’s Cantina last night. I have always been fascinated by NDP leadership races, partly because they make absolutely no sense to me and I never know what is going to happen on the convention floor. (yeah I just [...]
Column: Act to mitigate income gaps
My latest in The StarPhoenix The Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce is running a campaign currently that says we are On Track as a province. It’s absolutely correct in many ways. Saskatoon is booming and, for many, life has never been better. Even the Riders are winning again. Yet for some, things aren’t on track. It [...]
W. and Me
Walt Harrington has known former President Bush for more than 25 years and wrote a reflection for The American Scholar about his conversations with W over the years. Twenty-five years later, George W. Bush looks great. Two years as a civilian have been good to him. His feet clad in golf shoes and up on [...]
The real cause of Spain and Italy’s debt problem
Paul Krugman in the New York Times. So why is Spain — along with Italy, which has higher debt but smaller deficits — in so much trouble? The answer is that these countries are facing something very much like a bank run, except that the run is on their governments rather than, or more accurately [...]
Column: Prostitution a complex issue
This week’s column for The StarPhoenix. At work we deal with a database that has been developed by the federal government to help shelters such as ours to keep accurate statistics. Like anything designed by bureaucrats, it’s unwieldy, crashes a lot and doesn’t really do anything that’s very useful. It publishes inaccurate reports that need [...]
The Holt Bulldogs vs. the Babineau Warriors
Mark played his first Kinsmen Football League game on Sunday at the SaskTel Sports Centre. The Babineau Warriors played hard but lost 27-0. Their defense played well but their offense couldn’t get untracked. Plus when you are dealing with 11 & 12 year olds you never know what weird things are going to happen. I [...]
A few photos from the 2011 Kinsmen Football Jamboree
Mark taking the field for his first snap. You can tell from the coaches faces who are standing behind them, they aren’t overly concerned with what he will be doing on that play. They are a power running team. Mark has a pretty good game blocking. Early in the day his team’s starting quarterback broke [...]
Doomsday for the NDP?
Take a look at these poll numbers for the upcoming election. Premier Brad Wall and the Saskatchewan Party are heading into next month’s election campaign with what may be a level of support unprecedented in the province’s political history, according to a new poll. The Praxis Analytics survey, conducted for the Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon [...]
Mark
I haven’t been posting much here about what’s going around the house but Wendy has a couple of posts about Mark. The big news with Mark is that he is playing pee wee football for the Babineau Warriors in the Kinsmen Football League. In real terms it means that instead of coming home from work, [...]
The City of Saskatoon Spending Review
Saskatoon’s city council decided to do a spending review on what to cut. One city councillor described their efforts as “courageous”. That’s not a word I would have used. After many meetings, too much debate, and questionable live tweeting, the final results are known. A paltry $1.7 million. Here are the cuts as gathered by [...]
