Saskatchewan: A beachhead of labour law reform?
By: Andrew Stevens | First published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on May 3, 2013: Sweeping changes to Saskatchewan’s labour relations and employment standards legislation are on the…
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Abandoned Community Pastures At Risk #cdnpoli #skpoli
The last remnants of a unique ecosystem on Earth are entering what is potentially their last years of natural existence. This will lead to the extinctions of some plants and…
Deer-Tour Around Saskatchewan
Saturday’s road trip through the mist and fog yielded me the best wildlife photos I’ve ever had the privilege of shooting. Some photos from the earlier part of the trip…
Mini Solar Tour in the Fog of Wood Mountain and Glentworth
I went on a road trip Saturday with my friend Adam K., down to my parents’ place, and his grandparents’ farm. On the way around southern Saskatchewan, we saw close…
Oil Spills Create Jobs
I’m severely disappointed in the lack of vision that conservatives have regarding our economy. Faced with information that burning a lot of fossil fuel is not able to be sustained…
Forward Together #UofR: Buffy St. Marie – Live Blog
Buffy St. Marie tackled the subject of Aboriginal peoples’ self image. What has been the basis for it? In many cases in popular culture, it’s from philosophers in Europe who…
Doing What’s Right Doesn’t Always Look Cool
“Finish your food; there are children starving in… Regina.” When I first started recovering items from dumpsters, I was of course keenly aware of the social stigma implications. I consoled…
Wab Kinew at UofR Minifie Lecture
On Tuesday I tried to live blog Wab’s lecture from my smart phone, but the WiFi or something else wasn’t working right. The lecture will be online soon, and is…
Over $400 a day to Travel
Wrote this a couple weeks ago, and forgot to publish it. Here it is, in some hindsight. *** The math outlines the extreme expense incurred by Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin…
The Club: Music
I went to a show tonight with Jesse, after buying a monthly membership at CrashBang Labs (which is in the same building as The Club at The Exchange on 8th…
ReThink Meat
Meat fraud is taking place all around us. Most people probably can’t tell the difference between similar looking meats sold in stores, were it not for the labeling. Fish fraud…
More of Lafleche Main St. Destroyed
The last of the old Lafleche Red & White grocery store, and the former butcher shop that adjoined it to the north, has burned down. Most recently it was M.O.M…
SGI Bike Uprising
Doesn’t SGI know it’s not cool to cause an uprising amongst those most likely to ride motorcycles up and down the streets of SGI brass? The increase in motorcycle insurance…
#ForwardOnClimate Support in Regina: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Stephen McDavid interviewed by CBC/SRC about climate change action: Stephen explains that the pipeline is a line in the sand. Using it, is crossing that line. I’ll explain why there…
More Power Blows
There are recent solar electricity records set in Germany, and Spain has recently seen a huge increase in wind power production. Meanwhile, SaskPower has solar power research from 13 years…
Medical Tricorder
I got to use a device at lunch-hour today that had aspects of a medical tricorder, the near magical medical scanning devices used first by the fictional Dr. McCoy on…
ConCalls: RoboCall Boundary Edition #RoboCon 650 days and counting
Last week I got a robocall from “Chase Research” and listened to it all, taking notes when I realized it was a Conservative push-poll and would cause a scandal. I…
Why Liberals Should Fear Gerrymandering
Recently Saskatchewan MP Ralph Goodale wrote a post echoing a sentiment surprisingly popular among what’s left of the Liberal Party membership, and that is, this Conservative government is going to…
It’s Cold Outside
The ol’ digital thermometer is saying it’s about -35 in Regina this morning, before the windchill value is calculated. I still saw ESL students walking to school without toques or…
ISS over Regina
I was checking to see the next time the International Space Station would fly over Regina’s skies, and saw it was in two minutes! (There are only a few times…