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Canada's Best Places to Live

Chinook arch over the city of Calgary, Alberta...
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Money Sense has ranked 180 cities in Canada on several criteria to come up with the best place in Canada to live.  The winner, and I am sure they are sucking up to someone, is Ottawa-Gatineau.  In Alberta, Edmonton at number 8, beats out my city, Calgary at number 16.  Guess we will have to get our murder rate up and our weather crappier so we can catch them next year. Coming in at number 180 is, dum ta-de dum, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.  I am sure they are quite happy to know they live in the worse city in Canada.  Full list is here.

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Listening to Sara Bareilles

Cover of "Little Voice"
Cover of Little Voice

Another artist that kind of snuck up on me.  I bought her CD based on an appearance on Letterman.  She seemed to be a very talented singer, player, songwriter, and we were in the mood for something like this in our collection.  “Little Voice” is the name of this particular CD and the song we heard was “Love Song“.  We listened to it a few times and put it away.  Then, through the miracle of iPod, I uploaded the disc and her songs began to play oon a random basis.  I kept thinking, who is this, and was rewarded each time with the name Sara Bareilles.  This CD and her new one “Kaleidoscope Heart” are now staples in any mix we develop.  I am thinking she is for real and look forward to more of her material.

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Listening to Jordan Cook

Saskatoon skyline at night
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This week is the week for The Saskatchewan Jazz Festival in Saskatoon.  Not only does it bring in the name acts, it also showcases Saskatchewan talent.  One of these talents is Jordan Cook.  For some reason, the province has been blessed with many talented musicians who continue to impress.  The list is long, but some of these are, Northern Pikes, Colin James, Jack Semple, Deep Dark Woods, Kyle Riabko the list is endless.  There was a show last night in Saskatoon that I would have loved to have been at.  It featured Jordan Cook and The Sheepdogs.  I have already done a post on The Sheepdogs, which I have linked to below.  The video attached is Jordan Cook playing live.

 

http://joebeans2002.com/2011/05/19/listening-to-the-sheepdogs/

I Love the CBC

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A Happy Canada Day from what may be the dumbest news organization on the planet.  A poll, conducted by an Ontario University (funded by my tax dollar I assume)  lists Canadian cities in order of their Canuckiness.  Guess how many are West of Sudbury.  If you said none, you would be correct.  Apparently true Canadians only live in eastern Canada, as in Ontario.  The measurements used are interesting as well.  They used the number of breweries, the number of Tim Hortons outlets and the number of maple syrup producers per 100,000 residents and included a measurement for hockey teams (all) and,of course, bilingualism.  I love the comments as well.  By the way, thank you CBC for pointing out what poor Canadians we are out here in the West by not creating maple syrup and not having enough bilingual people.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/07/which-cities-are-the-most-canadian-check-the-canuck-index.html

North Korea is in Charge of World Disarmament – Part 2

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Update:

This link points out that Canada is the only country to speak out on this travesty.  John Baird, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister,  has asked the North Koreans to pass on the appointment.  In addition, he said that Canada will be reviewing it’s participation in the conference.  The ONLY country, wow.  I am proud of our country for this, and our government.  Happy Canada Day!

From the very foolish file comes this tidbit.  Believe it or not, North Korea has taken over the chairmanship of, get this, the UN Conference on Disarmament.  I have no idea where this comes from but it is on par with the United Nation’s endorsement of Iran’s proposed anti-terrorism conference in Tehran.  The world is going crazy in a hurry or am I missing something logical in here.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/world/archives/2011/06/20110630-115855.html

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