Posted by Carrie-May Siggins | July 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
About a week ago, I attended my first pre-natal yoga class. We started by rolling ourselves into a sharing circle and took turns describing our pregnancy experiences. Stories of puking, leg cramps, the creeping chill of panic as...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | March 27, 2012 | Film, News, Politics, Uncategorized
Tourism, Parks, Sports and Culture Minister Bill Hutchinson announced today that the deadline for applications for the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit would be extended from March 31st, 2012 to June 30, 2012. The...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | March 27, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
1. The Hunger Games star Wes Bently (he also played Chris Cooper’s son in American Beauty) has issued a release showing his support for the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit. Given that he’s in the middle of promoting one...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | March 26, 2012 | Film, News, Politics, Uncategorized
About 150 supporters of the film community showed up at the legislature today to show their disagreement with the government’s decision to end the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit (SFETC). Meanwhile, Saskatchewan...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | March 26, 2012 | Film, Uncategorized
Although The Hunger Games broke records this past weekend for the best box office returns for a non-sequel, raking in $214 million worldwide, and the reviews are for the most part positive, not everyone is happy. Who isn’t...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | March 26, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
The Court of Appeal for Ontario today struck down as unconstitutional a few of country’s anti-prositution laws. Arguing that the state is placing its citizens in danger with its laws, the unanimous decision legalizes both...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | March 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
About 50 members of CUPE, each wearing a white sandwich board and walking in a picket line, greeted attendees of tonight’s school board meeting. It’s what CUPE Local 4643 president Paula Branscombe called an “information...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | March 20, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
1 SOMEWHERE, JACK IS SMILING Last night, law professor Craig Scott won former NDP leader Jack Layton’s Toronto-Danforth riding by a whopping 59 percent of the vote. 2 JUST ANOTHER SUPER TUESDAY Maybe by this point, it would be...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | March 13, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
1 Retaliation has already begun for a mass murder allegedly committed by an American soldier in Afghanistan just two days ago. Taliban fighters opened fire on a delegation of Afghan officials, killing an Afghan soldier working...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | March 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
1. The BC government has called the picket lines set up by teachers outside of government offices illegal. 2. First he says that Israel doesn’t have a more dependable friend than the US, and then President Obama takes a...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | February 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’ll be twenty-two years this month since the first version of Photoshop was packed up and sent to Adobe for approval. And oh what strides the digital editing software has helped women make! Over the last two decades, Photoshop...
Read MorePosted by Carrie-May Siggins | February 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Heartlake City! It has a cafe, veterinarian clinic and, of course, a shopping mall. Because you can’t have a town made for 5-year-old girls and not have a mall. At least that’s what Lego believes. On...
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