Last night I wrote the following letter and sent it to "Canada Now - Saskatchewan" (CBC TV) and the Saskatoon Star Phoenix (newspaper):


I thought that dinosaurs were extinct. Then I read Canadian Alliance MP Larry Spencer's outdated and illogical ideas about homosexuality. Let's hope that all forms of intolerance end up as fossils in a museum.

I was disappointed to hear the results of a recent survey indicating that a majority of people in Saskatchewan do not support aboriginal treaty rights. That reminds me of how well Jim Pankiw--an embarrassment to our city, province and species--did in the civic election in Saskatoon.


The website for one of my favourite Canadian artists: www.davidblackwood.com

I'm swamped with assignments to mark for TESL 33 (the U. of S. Extension Division course in the Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language--CERTESL--program that I'm a tutor/marker for), so I don't have anything exciting to write today!

"We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down." - William F. Buckley Jr.



An interesting website: www.doublecool.com

What I learned from CBC Radio today:

The average house price in Fort McMurray, Alberta--the oil sands boomtown--is $250,000.

What I learned from CBC Radio today:

In the Victorian era, it was considered too suggestive for Europeans and North Americans--especially women--to peel and eat a banana while holding it in your hand. Therefore, etiquette books recommended the use of silver fruit knives and forks.

An interesting website:

www.commercialcloset.org