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Column: Children lose out in 24-7 world

Oct 3rd, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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This week’s column in The StarPhoenix You may have seen the Canadian Tire Jumpstart commercial. It features three teens in hockey gear on the bench, about to go on the ice. The first two head on out while the third can’t, as we are reminded that one in three families in Canada cannot afford organized [...]

Selling out for the holidays

Dec 2nd, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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I have gotten a lot of feedback for my Christmas Gift Guides.  It seems to fall into three categories: People selling their own books/gadgets/junk who are link baiting. People accusing me of selling out to rampant commercialism. People who are happy for the ideas. Let me explain the context that they are created in. Wendy [...]

New fishing rod

Jul 5th, 2009
by Jordon.
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I am not a passionate fisherman by any extent of the imagination.  I went a couple of times as a kid and I can count all of the fish I have caught on two hands but since we own a cabin and I have a kid who wants to fish, so I decided we needed [...]

The yard

May 31st, 2009
by Jordon.
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A couple of times a year I post about the yard and it is slowly coming to shape this year.  It didn’t winter well and looks horrible right now. We had a large cedar shrub get split in half this year because of the snow accumulating on it.  When we looked at it, it was [...]

NASCAR is coming to Saskatoon

Apr 1st, 2009
by Jordon.
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I am pretty excited about this race in July at the Auto Clearing Motor Speedway north of Saskatoon.  I know it is the NASCAR minor leagues but Saskatoon is a minor league kind of town. Two hours of watching a bunch of cars who can only turn one way.  Although when I type it out [...]