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City of Saskatoon to seek exemption for international trade deal

This still boggles my mind. Saskatoon should request an exemption to a large-scale free-trade agreement being negotiated between Canada and Europe, a city committee agreed. City councillors, sitting as an executive committee, voted 5-4 Monday to seek a permanent exemption to the proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, a free trade [...]

This and that

The ongoing water problems at The Lighthouse continue.  Today as they were working on the sprinkler system, a line broke under pressure and flooded out the dining room.  In case you are counting, that’s three floods now.  Later in the day as Marcel and I were talking the fire alarms went off again and we [...]

My new gig

Most of you know I am working at The Lighthouse Supported Living now but I haven’t gotten into much more than that.  Partially because when they offered me the job, they didn’t know what to do with me (so many of you feel can sympathize).  I was given (half) an office, a computer with a [...]

My Tauntaun Won’t Start

It’s chilly here in Saskatchewan.  It was –48 (with the wind) this morning which was cold enough that it takes a toll on cars, houses, and especially old hotels.  At work yesterday some pipes froze and while that was being taken care of, a 6 inch piece of wire fell and hit some old plumbing [...]

Cold and the homeless

Over at the Lighthouse’s blog, I posted about how we are working on keeping the homeless warm and housed during this (and every other) cold snap.

Items The Lighthouse Needs

A lot of your have been asking what The Lighthouse needs for donations.  It varies but here is a list of our ongoing material needs.  If you are so inclined, you can drop them off at anytime at 304 2nd Avenue South.  If you have any questions, drop me an email. Ongoing Needs Gloves/mittens Winter [...]

Renovations at The Lighthouse

DeeAnn Mercier takes you on a tour of the renovations that are ongoing at The Lighthouse Supported Living right now.  Mental Health Services is providing funding for nine rooms to be renovated and then used for long term mental health beds.   It will provide increased stability for the residents which saves the system a lot [...]

Life on 20th?

Some arts rapping about how they see life in Riversdale and the urban core.

The Continental Hotel

I have been fascinated by The Continental in Saskatoon since I was in Boston and saw my first high end boutique hotel.  While the market in Saskatoon would never supported it, I have always wanted to see someone turn The Continental into one.  Working at The Lighthouse, we park behind it and walk by The [...]

Mexico City trashes it’s garbage problem

Interesting article on how Mexico City has become so successful in reducing waste that it is closing it’s largest landfill. Mexico City will close one of the world’s largest garbage dumps by Dec. 31 and will instead turn the garbage from millions of people into reusable materials and energy, MayorMarcelo Ebrard announced Monday. Some 700 [...]

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 [...]

@ work

I was going to post this yesterday but there was a lot to do, not a lot of time to do it and when I got home, Wendy and the boys wanted to take me out to dinner.  By the time we got home, had a talk with Oliver about him not being Spiderman so [...]

What’s next is next

When I resigned from the Salvation Army, I didn’t really have a plan or a job to go to so I’ll let you read into that all you want.  It was a pretty sudden decision but it was time to move to something else.  After years of being on call 24.7, I wasn’t sleeping well [...]

Harbour of Hope

The Lighthouse Supported Living has a great project on the go that needs funding.  Here it is. It is the belief of The Lighthouse that it is all of our responsibility to help those in need. For too long woman have been exploited in the sex trade. We have a plan to help these woman [...]

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.