Posted by Wanda Schmöckel | October 4, 2013 | News
The Native Women’s Association of Canada is holding Sisters In Spirit vigils to honour missing, abused, and murdered women across the country today. According to the NWAC website, there are more than 582 missing and murdered...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | October 2, 2013 | Life
Like most North American cities (as was discussed on this blog a couple of days ago), Regina has cycling infrastructure that ranges from terrible to non-existent. If you’re a casual cyclist, it’s merely annoying. But if you are...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | September 30, 2013 | Dooom, Film, R.I.P.
SaskFilm, the province’s heretofore, once very busy film commission is no more. As of 3pm today, SaskFilm shut down its operations for good. It was created under the Progressive Conservative government of Grant Devine in 1989...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | August 27, 2013 | News
I sat in on last night’s city council meeting, and before we go any further, I’d like to acknowledge that I was just a tourist. Typically, Paul Dechene reports from City Hall, and does a bang-up job of it too. But he wasn’t able...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | August 19, 2013 | News
1 OH, COME ON Looks like Stephen Harper is proroguing parliament… again. 2 WAITING AND WORRYING There’s still no word on when Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani and filmmaker John Greyson might be released by Egyptian police. The...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | July 9, 2013 | Animals, News
As you’ve been reading, hearing, and seeing here, here, and here, Toronto is under water! It’s pretty sobering. This is the second time in roughly as many months that the lower half of the Don Valley Parkway has...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 24, 2013 | R.I.P.
Legendary soul-man Bobby Bland has passed away at age...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 24, 2013 | News
1 DID YOU SEE THE SUPERMOON THIS WEEKEND? No? Missed it? Well, don’t feel too badly, it’ll be back next August. To tide you over, here’s a collection of photos taken of the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 19, 2013 | Architecture, News
The group Save Our Connaught is reporting that the Regina Board of Education turned down its request Tuesday evening to get another estimate on renovating the 100 year-old Cathedral area school. I don’t know about you, but...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 10, 2013 | News
1 ANOTHER BRUSH WITH COMPLETE ANNIHILATION Did you hear about the asteroid that buzzed Earth on Saturday? Whew. 2 I NEED TO START FOLLOWING PETER MAYHEW ON TWITTER The seven-foot tall actor was stopped at the Denver airport...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 1, 2013 | R.I.P.
Actor Jean Stapleton, best known as Edith Bunker in the 70s television series All In The Family, has passed away at the age of 90. Though she became a household name for her Emmy Award winning role as Archie...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | May 31, 2013 | Horror, Media, News, R.I.P.
Among those laid off is John H. White (see photo above), a 68-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner. Meanwhile, the Poynter Institute reports that the Sun-Times will start giving their reporters mandatory training in iPhone...
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