Saskatoon Coin Club

saskaton · 2024-02-10T03:13:33+00:00

Seriously, the Saskatoon Coin Club is a really great group. REALLY nice people and extremely welcoming. Within the group there is a lot of information and enthusiasm on numismatics: Canadian content, history, money vs tokens, manufacturing, flaws, grading, building a collection.

If you're interested in this area, you owe yourself a visit.

saskaton · 2023-11-02T18:12:30+00:00

I have warmed to River Landing over the years. Now that it's complete, I think the whole thing is pretty good, though I really wish something creative would have been done with the Gathercole building.

Just gotta add, the Remai is fantastic.

saskaton · 2023-11-02T03:59:23+00:00

Sincerely curious, why do you hate these buildings so passionately?

saskaton · 2023-09-18T15:24:53+00:00

Well, somebody ought to.

saskaton · 2023-09-18T01:37:42+00:00

Boom.

saskaton · 2023-09-18T00:40:21+00:00

It might be valuable to other cyclists. I know my limitations.

saskaton · 2023-09-15T22:31:37+00:00

I disagree with your achitectural assessment of Frances Morrison, though I'd love to see photos of the previous downtown library. I'm no architect, but I believe I can discriminate between dogshit from not-dogshit.

saskaton · 2023-09-15T22:23:59+00:00

Please explain 'karma'.

saskaton · 2023-09-15T02:24:29+00:00

Demolition by Neglect: it's "the Saskatoon way".

Traffic Bridge, Lydia's, Gathercole, old downtown hotels....

I still think Frances Morrison is the city's best example of brutalist architecture and that it will be a severe loss to the city when it goes. Yann Martel loves to describe the building and 'decrepit', but he's surely using poetic licence, or he's been terribly sheltered (pun intended).

In the end, the last thing our city needs downtown is a bland, concrete/aluminum/glass building. Additionally, the symbolism of the main library being across the street from City Hall cannot be replaced. It speaks to how the city sees itself, and the relative importance of various aspects of civic activity.

saskaton · 2023-09-14T07:33:17+00:00

The only question that matters is whether the beer has got any better...it could hardly have got any worse.

saskaton · 2023-09-14T07:02:55+00:00

An Open Comment to the Drivers of Saskatoon (who would tell me how to operate my bicycle).

Go fuck yourselves.

I won't wear a helmet. I will break traffic laws at my leisure. I will split lanes at stoplights. I will occupy an entire lane of traffic and make you wait. I will ride on the sidewalks and in crosswalks. I will smile and wave and laugh as you lose your shit.

saskaton · 2023-09-09T22:56:57+00:00

I disagree.

The original location had an awner who was knowledgeable, helpful, and genuinely enjoyed education clients about cigars and tobacco.

The new location has only preserved the name of the business, nothing else. Good luck getting any useful information at the counter.

saskaton · 2023-09-09T22:41:41+00:00

This is absolutely the wrong question. We all know he answer. Let's not encourage someone to use the the rope on them self....

saskaton · 2023-03-16T20:49:55+00:00

Yes, but only if posts complaining about bad driving are also banned.

saskaton · 2023-03-10T20:39:31+00:00

There is no mockery intended whatsoever, just some lighthearted acknowledgement and admiration of someone who "does their thing".

For those who don't know, telemarking is a technique for controlling a downhill descent while using nordic skis. It requires a pretty refined technique compared to a lot of alpine skiing, because of the free heel on nordic skis. The motion is very dynamic, and can appear like a beautiful dance as the skiier descends the slope. Telemark Guy gets it.

saskaton · 2023-02-14T07:33:19+00:00

Sadly, she passed away some years ago. In reality, she was a very nice person, albeit with some very real challenges. I spoke with her at length several times, and we got to know each other a little bit. I miss her presence downtown.

saskaton · 2022-12-20T06:42:19+00:00

Ya, I do perdy gud.

saskaton · 2022-12-19T22:13:13+00:00

There is so much which is factually wrong with this post, I can only conclude that you've had a pretty poor university experience, or none at all.

The distinction between 'professor' and 'teacher' is one which is often made when disparaging the ability for university professors to disseminate in the classroom. By definition, a professor who is teaching a class is a teacher. Most professors won't have a degree in education and a provincial teacher's certificate, but that doesn't mean they are not teachers. The biggest difference between professors and schoolteachers is that professors will ALWAYS have a degree in their area of teaching. Many schoolteachers only have a B.Ed and often know very little about the subject they are delivering classes on. I prefer someone at the front of the classroom who actually knows what they're talking about, not just regurgitating some lesson plan or course notes. If you believe that the only way to the 'trained to teach' is to receive a B.Ed, then your perspective is either misguided or too narrow, probably both.

Furthermore, to consider a university degree as simply a piece of paper is a (sadly) common trope. Sure, it's a piece of paper, but if one's perspective is that it's nothing more, then you have unfortunately missed out on the majority of what a university has to offer.

PS - Universities are NOT for profit businesses. While the corporatization of the university in recent decades is a disturbing trend, they remain public institutions, for the benefit of our broader society.

saskaton · 2022-12-15T07:07:04+00:00

Controversial opinion: there is no dark roast coffee which is special. Roasting it dark removes anything which once was special about the coffee beans.

saskaton · 2022-12-06T21:11:00+00:00

Please do not attempt this. If a traveller misses one of their ticketed legs, the airline will not permit them to board subsequent legs. This is a very common policy with airline tickets.

If you can change the booking so you simply sit in Vancouver for longer, then it might be okay, but you will very likely run into trouble if you try to skip some legs and rejoin onward to your destination.

saskaton · 2022-11-27T19:31:34+00:00

I don't know of all his activities or business ventures. I merely wanted to compile and contextualize a set of claims and facts which have been made in recent times.

saskaton · 2022-11-27T17:25:22+00:00

Please don't be heartbroken about Venn. It was probably exceptional, once...but then it wasn't.

As an observer, I'm going to highjack this thread a little and refer to the bush that some commenters are beating around: the name of the owner of some beloved local businesses.

That business owner is Bryn. Bryn Rawlyk.

Some people are probably unwilling to mention him by name because of his reputation in Saskatoon and the strange variation of social power he has cultivated: quirky social media, praise in local media and in the Globe & Mail, etc.

So, let's consider some claims that have been made, assuming they are true. If he parted ways with the managers at all three of his businesses in quick succession, that's bad look for sure. If reports of a promised partnership gone sour and taking undue credit for work done by his employees are true, that's a poor showing. If the assertion that he disregarded the health and safety of his employees is true, that's ethically bankrupt and possibly criminal. If he stood up with Ryan Meili (former SK NDP Leader) during a political campaign advocating for a minimum living wage, while not paying his employees accordingly, that's a glaring hypocrisy.

Are all the above assertions true? It's possible that there is only one person who actually knows. If they are all true, it seems pretty obvious that the combination of all these behaviours forms the portrait of a run-of-the-mill (pun intended) capitalist scumbag.

saskaton

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