On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Fair warning: I may be somewhat Distracted tonight, given that we have a Grey Cup game day with Saskatchewan vs. Montréal.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the Grey Cup Game tonight.

May the players all remain concussion-free, and may Rider Nation prevail. In that order of priority.

Scott Moe still has his job, I'm sad to note.

Yes, the Saskatchewan NDP still improved their standings in the polls and the legislature...

1. Some ways to better communicate with deaf people:

https://www.theguardian.com/shared-moments/2023/oct/06/shouting-doesnt-help-10-things-i-want-hearing-people-to-know-about-deaf-people?

2. Concerns about access to vaccines for seniors in Canada:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-vaccine-seniors-fall-1.6988082

3. The WGA won. Here's why it matters, from at least one perspective:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/07/screenwriters-won-a-historic-victory-against-ai-the-rest-of-us-should-follow

4. Cult of Didulo vs. Richmound, SK:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cult-of-self-proclaimed-queen-of-canada-threaten-sask-village-with-public-executions-1.6988680

5. Landsowne 2.0 disputes:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lansdowne-2-0-green-roof-1.6990040
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lansdowne-2-0-price-tag-jumps-to-419m-3rd-tower-dropped-1.6988602

Guess which company lost and why.

Never mind, here's some evidence.

https://pressprogress.ca/saskatchewan-party-corporate-donor-received-60-million-medical-contract-after-crown-corporation-shut-down/

So, mcwetboy just posted an item of interest about a person in Val Marie, Saskatchewan who's started up their own map-design/publication shop...and I'm pleased as punch that someone's making a go of such things in as obscure-to-me place as this one.

I can't afford such things myself, but I'm passing word along to my friendlist because I suspect there's people on it with both the money and the interest, and I want to see Alex McPhee succeed at this over the short, medium and long haul!

(Also, going by his Saskatchewan map - which he's taking pre-orders for now - I was definitely born in Treaty 4 territory!)

For a little bit of comedy relief from a place some relatives call home:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/melville-home-hardware-pharmasave-bmo-sign-war-1.6063261

Update from Global News:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7943168/sign-war-takes-over-city-of-melville/

It doesn't seem right to use the verb "love" here. But these are reference books I've gotten to enjoy looking at, even though I don't use them in the context their publishers intended for them.

Hagstrom New York City Five Boroughs, 1990 Edition.



MapArt Publishing Saskatchewan Street and Road Atlas, 2007 Edition.



I'll add the images for the front covers ASAP, okay? Then, I'll try to explain these choices.

Something that I'm noticing on this page from the City of Regina website:

https://www.regina.ca/about-regina/neighbourhood-profiles/

Is it me, or are laneways - back alleys? - coming back into fashion in Regina?

I used to live in Regina. For a decade. Until I graduated high school. So this lead-in-the-water issue matters. Yes, it was decades ago. But I'm not sure that it matters.

Depending on which other cities and towns are affected to what degrees, that problem might be a contributing factor in the "Wexit" mess. Certainly not the only one. I expect international oil industry money has a hand in it, too. And a century or so's worth of cultural conditioning going back to fostering of resentment of Laurier's decision to not allow One Big Province where Alberta and Saskatchewan now stand. You could call Frederick Haultain a political ancestor of Manning, Klein, Kenney and Wall as a result of this 1905 mess.

There's the ongoing transit confusions. More wordage needed than I can spare right now for that. Because I've got to get to work shortly.

I'm about five chapters into this one. Bought it back in January of this year, and then got distracted with a couple of metric tonnes of other stuff. One more of my mistakes.

Well, it's getting fixed now, right?

Anyway, two chapters in, and already Gail's upended stuff that Joanne Kilbourn thought she knew and understood about her own life and family. No, not going to explain it. I spoiled it for myself by finally starting to read Gail's "how-I-dunnit" book about mystery novels, Sleuth. That book is one more reason why University of Regina Press ought to be getting much more attention from the general book-reading public on the non-fiction side.

Anyway, I'll try to remember to let you know when I've finished. Gail migrated in the opposite direction of mine: to Saskatchewan from Ontario. And she found ways of proving my birth province an interesting place in its own right, as Robert B. Parker did with Spenser's Boston.