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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
