I have had a Gmail account since Gmail opened it’s second round of invites years ago. Users had five invites and because I was only two degrees separated from someone at Blogger, I got one. It was like gold and it was amazing. Within days I stopped using Outlook and started to rely on Gmail [...]
November, 2011:
2011 Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Husband/Boyfriend/Men in Your Life
It’s Wendy again and I am pretty lucky as Jordon does all of the Christmas shopping in our family and over the years he has created some incredible gift guides for his website which have generated a loyal following. I traditionally write the Gift Guide husbands/boyfriends/fathers and this year I get to kick off the [...]
2011 Canadian Weblogs Award Nominees
The 2011 Canadian Weblog Award Nominees have been listed. I have been nominated for the best political blog and the lifetime achievement award. Among Saskatoon bloggers, I see that Dave Hutton’s City Hall Notebook and Sean Shaw’s Municipal Matters blogs have been nominated in a couple of categories as well. I looked through the list [...]
Award winner coming through…
It not me but F.S. Michaels, author of the book Monoculture which I have mentioned around here before. Here are the details. FIRST-TIME CANADIAN AUTHOR WINS AMERICA’S GEORGE ORWELL AWARD NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Canadian author F.S. Michaels has won America’s prestigious 2011 George Orwell [...]
So much for journalism
For most of us you are either for or against CBC but it doesn’t matter what you think of the CBC, you can’t pretend to think this qualifies as journalism by the London Free Press. CBC bureaucrats, production people, and journalists are feeling a little cramped in their 23-storey broadcast palace in Montreal. Earlier this [...]
The end of the line for Prairie Bible Institute?
Canada’s oldest fundamentalist Bible College finds itself in the middle of a sex abuse scandal. As Jeremy Klazus reports in the Calgary Herald, instead of looking outward for a third party, it is trying to handle things internally. Callaway, who did his master’s research on sex abuse in churches and recently completed a doctoral thesis on [...]
Natalie Warne – Anonymous Extraordinaries
Amazing video from TEDxYouth about the potential of young activists to change the world. Born in an underserved part of downtown Chicago, Natalie and her five siblings had to survive on her mother’s humble teacher salary, moving from city to city to find work. No stranger to adversity, Natalie was determined to make something great [...]
The end of the season
Mark’s football banquet was last night and a bunch of packed the two banquet rooms of Smiley’s and honoured the team, the coaches, and the manger. It was a really successful season and I have never seen a team improve that much. After going over a season without scoring a touchdown, they scored 55 points [...]
Occupy Saskatoon
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer I was down to the Occupy Saskatoon quite a few times trying to help them out with men and women who were homeless and staying there. Since I normally have a camera of some sort with me, I snapped a couple of photos when I down during daylight hours.
Column: Homeless need not just shelter
My latest in The StarPhoenix I enjoy winters in Saskatoon. There is Wintershines, the Meewasin skating rink, turning down Blades tickets because I don’t want to drive out to the Credit Union Centre, and reminiscing about when Blackstrap used to be open. No matter how cold it is at the end of the day, I [...]
