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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘winter’
Personal Safety Kits
Driving back and forth to Spiritwood a couple of times a week over a decade meant that I went through a lot of bad weather and really dangerous driving conditions. While I had some extra clothes and a some basic car equipment with me, if we had hit the ditch in a bad spot, it [...]
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 [...]
Why western Canada looks down on Ontario
It’s simple, they can’t drive in the snow.
Canadian Police Chase
I think this was filmed live in Saskatoon. It may have been actual new footage
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 [...]
More Americans worried about staying warm this winter
It’s a weird time. The United States may be the most powerful country ever but here we a story about how Americans are worried about how to stay warm this winter. After she spent the end of last winter shivering in her Belle Vernon, Pa., mobile home, Cindy Cross sought help this summer at a [...]
