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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Some pics from the Saskatchewan Festival of Words, which ran from July 16 - 19 in Moose Jaw. (Photos by Iden Ford/Courtesy of Dundurn Press.) Authors Maureen Jennings and Elizabeth Hay. (Note that Hay, possibly anticipating a lull in the festival, appears to be carrying a book of word searches.) Globe and Mail book editor Martin Levin [...]
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saskatchewan New Democrats, take heed. I see that either Murray Mandryk has been reading my blog, or at the very least reading my mind. The Regina Manifesto is a very frightening document. It calls for the ‘eradication of capitalism’ and basically calls for a socialist economy. In my mind, nothing would be more terrifying than to [...]
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The union representing about 500 workers at three Saskatoon-area potash mines says it wants to return to the bargaining table rather than go on strike.
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Buckdog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
During the Great Depression, few places in Canada were harder hit than Saskatchewan. Not only did the free market economy completely collapse, but prairie people had to deal with a prolonged period of drought, wind and dust now known as the 'Dirty Thirties'. In response to the failure of the free market system, political movements like the Social Credit Party and the CCF emerged in response to the...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
Red Wings coach Mike Babcock was allowed two days with the Stanley Cup last week in his hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. So, keeping with the Canadian tradition, the first place Babcock went with the Cup was Tim Horton's.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two women are dead after a head-on collision northwest of Yorkton, Sask., early Friday morning, Wadena RCMP say.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
The deaths of 40 cattle whose badly decomposed bodies were recently discovered in the heart of southwest Saskatchewan's ranch country are being investigated by the SPCA.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
A group of Saskatchewan First Nations has turned to Taiwan's Chinese Petroleum Corp. to help them get a foothold in the province's fledgling tarsands play.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Saskatchewan community of Indian Head will be a fine stand-in for the fictional town of Mercy in the upcoming third season of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a producer of the CBC-TV series said Thursday.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The variety of mosquito that spreads the West Nile virus has turned up in Saskatoon and Regina for the first time this year, health officials say.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A man in his 50s who was shot by police near the hamlet of Mayfair, Sask., on Wednesday morning has been transferred to a Saskatoon hospital from North Battleford, CBC News has learned.
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!! omg blog !! (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Make a design out of the text from any website on WORDLE.NET. The above is from OMGblog. I've also made one from Regina, Saskatchewan's Casual Encounters page on Craigslist that you can see after the jump. Thanks to Kevin R. for the nerd tip....
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The case of a 40-year-old Regina man charged in his father's death will go to trial, a Saskatchewan judge ruled Wednesday.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
SUGAR LAND, TX (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- PCS Phosphate Company Incorporated (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), a subsidiary of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) (Saskatoon), is in the process of building a seventh sulfuric acid unit at their Aurora, North Carolina, plant site. This $100 million unit will produce an estimated 5,400 tons per day...
