You can read more about the Calgary Homeless Foundation does on their website. The same success can be repeated in Saskatoon if we get serious about homelessness here.
Alberta
The Death and Life of Prairie Bible College
Jeremy Klazus has a great article on the trials and tribulations of Prairie Bible College. Opinionated alumni and donors have long scolded PBI leaders for deviating even slightly from the status quo. Even L.E. got flak. After spending 19 years as a missionary in Japan, a Prairie grad named Marvin L. Fieldhouse returned to PBI, [...]
Red Arrow Coaches
My colleague and I were talking about Red Arrow coaches the other day and I found this great article by Jeremy Klazus who writes about them in Alberta Venture Red Arrow carries business travellers, mostly. But its fares aren’t out of reach for students and others making personal trips. “Our typical demographic is a professional [...]
The Rocky Mountaineer
A couple of months ago I was looking around online for a trip to take Wendy on our anniversary. After checking out VIA Rail (train comes through Saskatoon at midnight and goes through Edmonton and Jasper, not Banff), I saw something about The Rocky Mountaineer and spent hours checking out their website and looking at [...]
The River That Once Ran Through It
Canadian Geographic has a great article on how the South Saskatchewan River is in danger of running dry. The true danger is hard to know. A 2009 report by World Wildlife Fund Canada called it the country’s most-threatened river. Yet record rains this year have caused floods and widespread crop damage. Amid such climatic uncertainty, [...]
We’re #2
According to the Star Phoenix Saskatchewan will surpass Ontario this year as Canada’s second-wealthiest province as measured by living standards, the result of a recession that has shown no mercy on the country’s industrial heartland, according to an independent analysis issued Tuesday. So how is it happening? For its part, Saskatchewan’s ascent is attributed to [...]
Drought is back on the Prairies
From the Globe and Mail All across western Saskatchewan and southern Alberta, farmers are scanning crop-insurance policies and calculating how short they’ll be on payments this year as one of the worst droughts on record parches their land and their bank accounts. The dry conditions are also wreaking havoc on local wildlife, prompting watering bans [...]
