I was reading some recent data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute that said 57% of Canadians want to live to be 90 or older and 26% say they want to live to be 100. That's interesting. I'd be OK with reaching 100 depending on circumstances such as are both my mind and body in reasonable working condition? W...

At this past Sunday's regular family dinner, we hauled out our two Christmas trees and placed them in their usual locations. I plugged in the lights on the one in the living room to make sure they were in working order and our two-months-shy of turning three granddaughter was quite impressed if "wow" is any ...

I should talk about Secret Santa and bring everyone up to date on what's happening. Secret Santa actually started back in the 1980's when the late legendary Saskatoon radio personality Denny Carr approached the Salvation Army about how to help. The answer was to try and see that needy children got a brand new toy at ...

The municipal elections are over and done. Saskatoon saw big changes with a new mayor, the first female mayor in the city's history, and six of ten new councillors as five incumbents didn't run and one was defeated. Our new mayor was a sitting councillor so she knows the routine, but I hope the six rookie councillors ...

The 2024 provincial election has been put to bed with all the votes counted. There was a higher turnout this time with 56% of eligible voters casting ballots compared to 52% in 2020. Even 56% is nothing to be proud of meaning 44% of people who have the right to help choose who governs the province gave up the right t...

I went to the Service Canada office in Market Mall on Tuesday to renew my Passport. I renewed for ten years (as if I'll look the same a decade from now!) but might as well avail myself of the option. My new passport should arrive in a couple of weeks and I guess it'll look somewhat different than the old one with new...

When I'm asked what my favourite sport is I ask to watch or to have played? I played a number of sports when I was young, football, hockey, curling, soccer. I didn't play much baseball or basketball or volleyball but hey, it's tough to do everything. What do I like to watch today? Well, my favourite to go watch in ...

You know how many passwords I have stored where I save them? 94. I counted them for fun and then I counted again just to make sure and yep, 94. To me that's a lot but there are others who have even more. It seems we need passwords for everything nowadays. We are always warned that the best passwords are long, uniqu...

It's the start of November and that means the time change is imminent, except for us of course. WE will wake up Sunday morning with our clocks not having to be moved back an hour, something that was a ritual each fall wherever else I lived prior to coming to this province. Now we'll just have to remember that as of ...

Elections..... one down and two to go. Or will it be three to go to have four in '24? Sheesh! We again have a Sask Party government with a much-reduced majority in this province, and there's definitely an urban-rural difference in political philosophy. How will that affect us over the next four years? To be det...

Today is Election Day when we find out the makeup of our provincial legislature for the next four years, assuming a majority government. I ended my last Coffeetalk by saying next week (now this week) we'll see what our provincial government looks like, then who becomes the president of the United States the following ...

I hardly ever delve into the wacky world of politics even though now and then I certainly am tempted. I do pay attention, especially in times like these when we have provincial and municipal elections looming plus that gong show in the U.S. Have you tuned in to an American channel lately? Hundreds of millions of do...

Let's talk a bit about radio, a subject I could wax eloquently about longer than I have time for on Coffeetalk. I read an interesting article written by a programming research consultant in the U.S. who writes for a broadcasting publication I subscribe to called Radio Ink. (Creative name for a magazine about Radio). ...

Plato, who studied under Socrates, was considered the greatest philosopher of ancient Greece. Just for fun I thought I'd start off the week with some of his famous quotes that ring bells in my mind. (Hopefully that doesn't make me a "ding dong".) How about, "Wise men talk because they have something...

I almost hesitated to talk about this subject due to its political overtones but there was a quarterly "carbon tax" rebate deposited into my bank account this week which reminded me about some research I wanted to do. First of all, it isn't really a tax although some might say hey, a rose by any other name...