The Atlantic Cities on why there needs to be more wet shelters. Neil Donovan, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, agrees with the Daily News and says one death shouldn’t turn people off the idea of a wet shelter. "This isn’t a party house,” he told me earlier this week. "Wet in [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
10 Things That Make Your Home a Target for Thieves
From Consumer Reports A home is robbed every 14.6 seconds and the average dollar loss per burglary is $2,119, according to statistics just released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And that’s the good news because burglaries were down slightly in 2010 compared to 2009. Sure you lock your doors and windows when you’re not [...]
Another way to get a bridge built
In Saskatoon bridges cost hundreds of millions of dollars, deeply divide the city, and then tend to fall down because they haven’t been properly maintained. The locals of Nongriat in Meghalaya, India have a different approach to infrastructure, they grow it. They have been doing this for the past 500 years. Some of [...]
Architecture as a force to deal with poverty?
As Paris is finding, it may be overestimating the power of architecture Balzac has now been emptied, though, and a spidery mechanical arm tears away at it each day. The towering wall of stained concrete and tile, once 600 feet long and 16 stories high, is to be replaced by a cluster of smaller units, [...]
