Lake Monster in Northern Ontario

Yet another case of a mutated beast on the shore of a lake.  It seems they always wash up, but this is probably that we don't run around the woods as much as we hang out on beaches, and dead things in the woods get eaten faster.  In this case the beast is likely a...

China Drafts Law Against Dog Meat

As reported in Reuters Oddly Enough http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60Q49T20100127 Chinese lawmakers are proposing a nation-wide ban on eating dogs.  Given how cruel some of the dog meat...

Bridge Suicide Foiled

I've been hassled for pausing on the bridge while looking unusual and it's a nuisance. Once when I was very young I was in fact contemplating the dark water below and the police took me for a chat with the psych...

Pedestrian hits finally getting notice

Last autumn I wrote an article, http://my.nowpublic.com/health/dont-go-take-walk-saskatoon in which I listed the many pedestrians injured or killed by motorists that summer in Saskatoon.  This spring the carnage resumed.  Finally an article in our local...

Boutique of Leathers Does Not Stand Behind Its Product

On the 16th of June I went into Boutique of Leathers downtown in the mall in Saskatoon to search for a good motorcycle jacket. I found one and was quite willing to pay the $300 plus taxes for it.  I'd been...

Canada Day Celebration Fireworks In Saskatoon

We walked to our previously scouted location, dodging angry selfish drivers trying to get as close to the show as possible.  With giggles we wondered together how many of them knew the road was blocked this...

Saskatoon Police Service adds cameras to cars

Will we be seeing our fair elm-lined streets on Cops on tv?  The press release from the police service dated June 26th states: Not that this is likely to significantly improve police behaviour, but it might provide for some interesting news footage on the evening news!

The Burqua Experiment

       Today I wore my burqua in public. I bought the thing last autumn on the internet. I wanted to see what it was like to wear one, and hoped also to find the courage to wear it in public. I...

New scam for burglary

By now most of us have heard about being burgled out the front door while working the back yard.  Today I learned another one.  I was washing dishes with the front door open to the screen letting in the fine...

Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons

  The premise of this movie is taken from the idea that man grows from a   baby to a man, then in his dotage becomes a baby once more.  I suppose   some writer somewhere laughingly wondered, what if a man...

3D Printing: The future is NOW!

Yes, you can!  Okay, maybe you and i can't afford it but I can see it, in ten years, mattel introduces the "print your own toys" all-in-one household object printer!  "Easy software anyone can use with...

Another Meteorite?

Saskatchewan, home of fireballs?  We already have plenty of crop circles, now two space fire balls less than a month apart!From Saskatoon Homepage:Could it have been another meteor?We have recieved numerous calls this morning from people who live around Biggar, Invermay,...

Water Main Break

24 Hours Without Running Water According to the Watermain Break Clock an average of 700 water mains break in Canada and the USA every day. Yesterday our block was one of them. A water main is the giant pipe in...

Girl, 7, kicks her way out of crashed truck, saves family

There's never enough good news in the world, so here's some from Saskatchewan.  quoted from CBC sask:sourceLast Updated: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 | 9:44 AM CT Comments16Recommend79CBC NewsA little girl from Albertville, Sask., who kicked out a pickup truck window...

Don't go take a walk in Saskatoon!

There's been a rash of pedestrians hit by autos in Saskatoon this year.  Rapid economic and population growth has resulted in an overloaded infrastructure.  Attempts to upgrade this infrastructure have closed...
 

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