Over at the Lighthouse’s blog, I posted about how we are working on keeping the homeless warm and housed during this (and every other) cold snap.
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Car chase in Saskatoon
We had a conversation with a Saskatoon Police officer this week at work. We asked what the police were going to do with Ford stopping production of Crown Victoria’s in 2011 and it came out that despite the winter storm hitting Saskatoon, the police don’t have their winter tires yet which immediately made us all [...]
How does Saskatoon’s snow clearing budget stack up to other cities?
From the Star Phoenix’s City Hall Notebook There has been a lot of discussion since the weekend storm comparing Saskatoon to other cities in Canada. I used 2006 census data (of municipalities, not greater metro areas) and the long-term snowfall data from Environment Canada and compared it to the most recent snowbudgets for some major [...]
WinterShines
Saskatoon is a wonderful place to live and work in the summer, maybe the greatest place in the world but in the winter it is a cold, windy, miserable place which has only three colors of nature, white, great, and brown. To help us survive winter without going crazy, Tourism Saskatoon has launched WinterShines which [...]
The -15 Below Jacket
There are 300,000 homeless in Canada and sadly there is not enough space to house them all, even in emergency conditions. To combat this, Taxi (a design firm) came up with a jacket that will help keep someone who is homeless alive for a night. While I find this solution a sad reflection on how [...]
