tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71904395810413659982008-03-31T10:53:41.212-06:00ReginaRadioBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-66342874735607392482008-03-13T10:44:00.001-06:002008-03-13T10:44:29.546-06:00

The break and enter rates in...Regina, for instance, rank within the top 10 per cent of all American cities. The per capita robbery rates in...Regina would put (it) among the top 10 robbery-plagued metropolitan areas of the U.S. Story: The worst and best of Canada | Macleans.ca - Canada - Features

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-60568501314582535762007-12-22T11:15:00.001-06:002007-12-22T11:15:06.190-06:00

I'm sitting here watching CTV Newsnet on the Saturday three days before Christmas and story after story is about holiday spending and holiday air travel.  The problem is, each of these stories is American dressed up to look like it is Canadian. The id/sign-offs at the end have been chopped off ("This is Timmy for NBC News.") So viewers might wonder if 3 in 10 holiday shoppers really are going to

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-58818341202904512972007-11-27T00:12:00.001-06:002007-11-27T00:12:36.117-06:00

Everyone in the city and province where James lives is a fan of the local professional sports team: The Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL.) They've only won two championships in nearly one hundred years. The first time was the year James was born. The second time was in 1989 where a downtown-wide street party erupted and he met his future wife. But the third championship (Grey Cup

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-73373211251407895182007-11-25T13:44:00.001-06:002007-11-25T13:44:31.726-06:00

What's the worst thing that could happen to an expectant couple who are Rider fans and who have been together since the street celebration after the 1989 Grey Cup? The wife goes into labour on Grey Cup Sunday, that's what. No one is more disappointed in the timing that my wife Janice (8 days past due.) We're listening to the radio pregame broadcasts in between contractions. It's amazing how

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-5816611608126913832007-11-23T12:21:00.001-06:002007-11-23T12:23:08.208-06:00

I've heard enough, and I don't like what I'm hearing. The Grey Cup at the SkyDome has fond memories for me, but I'm not sure Toronto should host the CFL's biggest event. I hate watching games there (in person or on TV.) But the Cup is different, because everyone in the crown isn't from Ontario. There are real people there too. And I'm getting a little tired hearing Torontonians, particularly in

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-86392451129211697882007-11-18T20:55:00.001-06:002007-11-18T20:55:56.577-06:00

How 'bout them Riders! When you're one day past your due date to have a baby it's hard to let yourself take something as a football game so seriously but we couldn't help ourselves. Driving down Dewdney Ave. to pick up Chinese food after the game, everyone was honking. You've gotta love it.  If Toronto had won you wouldn't know it in Toronto unless you were at a sports bar within a block of the

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-18205181364769764512007-11-13T09:59:00.001-06:002007-11-13T09:59:33.785-06:00

  I've been to a lot of big games, a lot of big late-game comebacks, but I've never seen it like this. Yeah, you would think we won the Grey Cup at home!

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-40534964120148129742007-11-11T07:20:00.001-06:002007-11-11T10:58:35.190-06:00

  November 9, 1989 the wall comes down, and the Riders were   about to become Grey Cup champions. What a year!    Eight months later, Potsdamer Platz, the day after the   Wall concert was staged at the site of the Berlin Wall Jan and I have different views of the 1970s rock album The Wall by Pink Floyd. She finds it depressing, I find it cathartic. Once it draws me in, there's no leaving until

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-3863389346306561402007-11-11T07:08:00.001-06:002007-11-11T07:18:09.087-06:00

I hate the Weather Network when it comes to their dealings with wind. When wind is mentioned, it is always forecast lower than Environment Canada and gusts are not part of their current readings or predictions. If you go by them, today might not seem like a bad day (wind west at 35.) To them, they might be surprised that I was awakened at 5:45 AM by a howling wind from the West gusting to near 80

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-10721785466529475242007-11-10T13:04:00.001-06:002007-11-10T13:04:09.208-06:00

In our new Canadian conservative landscape, it seems Remembrance Day is taking on a tone of remembering those who serve now, or those who are living veterans. The day was created to remember the war dead. I've always thought of it as bit of both, but mostly remembering those who died in the past, in uniform and out of uniform. If the emphasis is being shifted to those who didn't die, or those who

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-82530336573939623242007-11-07T23:59:00.001-06:002007-11-08T00:08:47.965-06:00

Ignorance is bliss. Oh I knew the Cactus nachos at Boston Pizza were by far the worst thing I could ever imagine eating, but seeing the numbers in black in white is going to make my once-per-month plate of happiness difficult to swallow. So here it is, the cactus nachos have 1880 calories with 128 grams of fat. But they're soooo good!  Maybe if I brought my own treadmill to the restaurant? Maybe

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-85570841476297323542007-11-07T16:36:00.001-06:002007-11-07T16:37:38.075-06:00

Anyone who doesn't vote, please hand in your ReginaRadio.com membership cards. The province is going from wanting-to-hang-on-to-power idiots to evil, hateful idiots. I like the NDP for trying to expand Medicare, which is something I'd like to see, but they really are a centrist party these days, trying to be all things to all people. Things I've heard on talk radio this week while driving: John

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-43306625991552201182007-11-05T23:49:00.001-06:002007-11-05T23:49:20.597-06:00

Link Games times changed.

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-19237658201462024322007-11-04T12:04:00.001-06:002007-11-05T11:21:41.701-06:00

Am I the only one who is dismayed that Rod Pedersen actually answered a cell phone call during the Rider broadcast on Saturday? "Could I call you back, I'm on the air right now," he was heard saying off-mic as he struggled to pull off his headset and take the call. Carm was apparently too shocked to fill the silence. Or he was stuffing his face with a sub. I've actually seen him eating during

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-57340395236985552102007-10-30T09:10:00.001-06:002007-10-30T11:38:00.442-06:00

I bought an Arms Reach Co-Sleeper* bassinet on eBay this morning, my first online purchase since the Dollar moved above par. As much as I try, I can't get my head around the reversed status of the Canadian Dollar. It makes as much sense as the sky being green. I've been eBaying for ten years and I'm accustomed to automatically recalculating the US price in my mind. When I see $100 US, I see $130

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-91464239242842815272007-10-28T23:29:00.001-06:002007-10-30T09:07:19.384-06:00

John Lynch, longtime Saskatchewan Roughrider broadcaster, is old skool, and that's primarily what I love about him. I've been listening to his rapid, booming, authoritative voice during Rider radio broadcasts since I was a kid, over thirty years ago. Lynch's over-the-top energy and enthusiasm make any game he comments on seem like the thing of the moment. His descriptions of the day's football

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-77324392600783299702007-10-12T09:52:00.001-06:002007-10-12T09:52:49.271-06:00

When I was trying to figure out what internet connection speed I have from SaskTel so I could compare to Access' deal, I had to do an internet bandwidth speed test (see link below) to determine my speed. The initial test seemed low, so I turned off one of my two SaskTel Max TV boxes and got higher readings. Some speed tests can be inconsistent so I repeated the test over and over, some with my

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-32647834315953889252007-10-03T10:57:00.001-06:002007-10-03T11:00:13.190-06:00

"If you say something new that the system has never seen... it's able to push that bit up and ask an agent for help. That's how we train the system live." So there is someone listening to your messages!  I was right. You heard it here first. (See previous post.) Story: Voicemail gets voice-to-text

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-52719100164668586862007-09-27T23:12:00.001-06:002007-09-28T10:49:52.455-06:00

Tech guru Tod Maffin asked if anyone in Saskatchewan would help him try out this new service. SaskTel has a free 30 day preview of their voice mail to text service (normally 40 cents a voice mail or ten dollars per month.) You're phone voice mails are transcribed and sent to you as a text message (SaskTel phones only) or an email. The question is, how do they do it? So I tested it out with eerie

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-27536662044143471242007-09-20T23:21:00.001-06:002007-09-20T23:24:30.494-06:00

Call me a news junkie but I've always been a fan of Neil Macdonald. His insightful feature from today is a good example of the frankness with which he conveys his stories. It's about the credit crisis in the States. I watch American TV and this is an American story, yet no story I've seen before actually reveals the impact of this crisis on people. Most stories are how it affects rich people's

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-20553182238243673102007-09-06T00:03:00.001-06:002007-09-06T00:03:42.392-06:00

Let's start from the beginning... At the end of June our van broke down on the way back to Okatoks, Alberta. The van was towed to the Okatoks Ford Dealer where the staff promptly replaced the fuel pump at a cost of nearly $800.00. It was pointed out to us many times that the work and the part was under warranty which was good for one year or 20,000 KMs. Ten days ago I go to start it and it

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-32793826692491213522007-08-19T10:29:00.001-06:002007-08-19T10:29:38.576-06:00

Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 11:30AM (CFL.ca wire) -- Due to inclement weather last night in Regina, the final hour of Saturday’s game between the Edmonton Eskimos and Saskatchewan Roughriders will air on CBC at 12 midnight local time tonight in all Canadian markets.The entire game can also be seen on CBC Broadband later today. Story: CFL.ca Network :: Official site of the Canadian Football

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-49114865201196429462007-08-19T01:09:00.001-06:002007-08-19T10:38:13.167-06:00

I guess the blackout wasn't lifted after all. CBC couldn't even put up a decent scroll to explain the sudden loss of broadcast. They could have stayed with the coverage like CKRM by phone with a still image up. Just to clarify, because some people think CBC never came back after the delay, CBC HD stayed with the movie, and CBC standard definition channels came back with the game after the 55

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-71514087358837664612007-07-25T23:11:00.001-06:002007-07-25T23:11:39.225-06:00

I was minding my own business, trying on some fatboy shorts in the Wal-Mart fitting room this afternoon, when the power went out. It was pitch black and I had no pants on. I couldn't find my pants, or anything else in the tiny chamber. Outside the room, somewhere, was my elderly mother shouting for my three year old son who was lost in the darkness. The pressure to find my pants in the blackness

ReginaRadiotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190439581041365998.post-89254791147211251972007-07-15T08:34:00.001-06:002007-07-15T08:34:02.405-06:00

There are times, especially in the tranquility of summer days, that I think this ain't such a bad neighbourhood. Its mature trees and large lots make it feel pleasant on quiet mornings and serene evenings. This year the guy three doors down isn't even blasting the best of Bob Segar for ninety minutes every afternoon at four. The nutjobs across the alley are fairly quiet with their public blasting

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