City of Saskatoon

Here we go again

The City of Saskatoon came out with their strategic plan and it reads and looks good. As I was looking through it (finally after saskatoon.ca was down all last night), I couldn’t help but notice three of the photos were taken from my Flickr account without my permission. Again. It’s happened before and I was [...]

It’s still theft, even when the City of Saskatoon does it

Oct 2nd, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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I was researching something for a future column today and I went looking for a RFP regarding Kinsmen Park. As I opened the PDF, I was impressed with the photo that made up the front cover of it. The reason I was impressed with the photograph is that it has been a long time [...]

Opening up Saskatoon’s Archives

Jan 4th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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I wasn’t sure what I was looking for last night but I ended up at the Saskatoon Public Library’s database of archival images. I checked out some old historic collections from Saskatoon’s past but I have to admit that it wasn’t the easiest to use, it was slow, you can’t save any images, and it [...]

Affordable Housing Initiatives in Saskatoon

Nov 1st, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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This came from City Councilor’s Pat Lorje’s email on what’s happening at City Council Affordable Housing Initiatives- Just two years ago, Council took $5 million from the Affordable Housing Reserve, and dedicated it to jump-starting purpose-built rental housing. The idea was to pay developers, who have hardly built any rental accommodation in this city for [...]