Both videos were shot in Windy Arm, Yukon
December, 2011:
No Social Services Checks before Christmas
From Joe Couture of The StarPhoenix A Saskatchewan Party government decision to change the date January social assistance cheques are released to after Christmas from before has come under fire from the NDP Opposition. As of 2011, Social Services changed the date cheques were issued and direct deposits paid to Dec. 29 from Dec. 23. [...]
Being Jesus in Nashville
My friend Jim Palmer likes to color outside the lines of modern evangelicalism and to make a long story short, his last book was controversial enough that his publisher tossed him which for me, makes me want this book to be published. He is publishing it independently and needs your help. I set out to [...]
Column: City lead on street life welcome
In today’s The StarPhoenix City hall was concerned enough by reports of panhandling and street activity that it commissioned a report this year to study the problem. The comprehensive Street Activity Baseline Study was completed and sent to council in November. One issue that arose from the study is that people don’t feel comfortable in [...]
Portraits of Saskatoon
If you are still looking for a spectacular gift with a Saskatoon theme, check out these prints by Saskatoon photographer Christina Weese of the Victoria Traffic Bridge. They look fantastic, are a limited run, and you are supporting a local artist. Oh yeah, someone is also getting a great gift. Speaking of the arts, I [...]
Column: Reserves Need a New Strategy
My column in today’s The StarPhoenix In case you missed it, public health in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat has deteriorated as families are living in shantytown conditions and are without running water, electricity, sewage or heat. A month ago its chief declared a state of emergency, which was ignored until she held a [...]
Warren Kinsella on Attawapiskat
Warren Kinsella has a great column on Attawapiskat. Over the years, I have advised many native bands. I have worked in communities almost as bad as Attawapiskat found in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. I have advised successive governments — Jean Chretien’s, Paul Martin’s and Stephen Harper’s — about dealing with problems which are quite similar to [...]
Tired of living in Saskatchewan? Try seasteading
Libertarians dream of living on a floating city with no government regulation but there are some challenges. Seastead designs tend to fall into one of three categories: ship-shaped structures, barge-like structures based on floating pontoons and platforms mounted on semi-submersible columns, like offshore oil installations. Over-ordering by cruise lines means there are plenty of big, [...]
Big Yellow Taxi
Why Peter McKay’s “taxi” ride in a search & rescue helicopter strikes a nerve in Newfoundland. For centuries, families in Newfoundland and Labrador have grieved for those who went to sea and didn’t come home. The risk continues. Fishing is among the most deadly jobs in the country, and the dangers inherent in travelling to [...]
Phone hacking is a “worthy tool”?
Umm, you have to read this for yourself. After Paul McMullan, a former deputy features editor at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid, had finished his jaw-droppingly brazen remarks at a judicial inquiry on Tuesday, it was hard to think of any dubious news-gathering technique he had not confessed to, short of pistol-whipping [...]
