My StarPhoenix column this week. When I bought my house I had certain expectations. I expected the police to keep marauding mobs off my street, the fire department to put out fires, my neighbours to maintain their homes and city council not to make decisions that would hurt the value of my investment. I didn’t [...]
Mayfair
Column: Relocating problem no answer
This week’s column in The StarPhoenix While driving to work last Tuesday, I got ensnared in the road construction and traffic backups on 22nd Street. After navigating part of Caswell Hill, I managed to get across 22nd at Avenue M. As I was stopped on 20th Street, I was approached by a young woman who [...]
Making Saskatoon a Winter City
For those of you who missed it, Ice Cycle was two Sundays ago. It’s basically an event where hard core cyclists taunt the weather and risk getting pneumonia while going for a bike ride in extreme cold. Mother Nature doesn’t enjoy getting taunted and met them with –40 degree weather. Now personally I think each [...]
A look back
My early ideas on Social Services were shaped by the Devine Tories. As some of you know, the first campaign I worked on was the 1986 provincial election campaign that saw Grant Devine and the Progressive Conservatives re-elected. Devine was confronted with a large budget deficit, an extremely effective NDP opposition party, an ongoing drought [...]
Prostitution in Mayfair
The Star Phoenix has an article on the increase of street prostitution in my neighborhood. Ground zero for the sex-trade workers is hard to pinpoint, but the new stroll is anchored by 33rd Street West, stretching by some estimates to 38th Street, between Idylwyld Drive and Avenue G North. "(It) turns into a different place [...]
Domestic Assault
As I was coming home last night, I noticed numerous police cars a couple blocks over and there was police tape everywhere around the church a block north in the 1500 block 1700 block of Avenue D. Apparently a six year old girl was found with life threatening injuries and was shot during a domestic [...]
