inCommunicado - eric eggertson

We got back to the house at 1:30 this morning from our road trip to Meacham to see James O’Shea’s The Red Truck.
For a play about rural Saskatchewan, the setting is just right. Dancing Sky Theatre operates out of a converted community hall in the village of Meacham, east of Saskatoon. There is room for […]

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Kelley Jo Burke’s Charming and Rose: True Love is playing Monday and Tuesday night (April 30, May 1) at the University of Regina’s ShuBox Theatre.
Since I’m married to the playwright, I’ll avoid bias and just say this is a superb play that tackles the myth of the perfect woman as defined by controlling men.
Rose is […]

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What the hell is wrong with the ISP and mobile phone business in Canada?
Gone are the days when you could just buy a service. Now, everything you do is an attempt to reduce the service levels below useless, or ding you for "extras" (no one has the guts to charge extra yet for services like […]

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I met Krista Baliko at a podcasters’ meetup last year, (even though neither of us is a podcaster), so I like to watch her progress working at the CBC Mother Corp.
Good to see she’s got a blog this week, as she posts about the goings-on in Saskatoon around the JUNO awards. The awards show time […]

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It’s been a relief in the past couple of weeks to see media coverage shift briefly to stories about the women who went missing over the years in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.  For years, with some notable exceptions, the focus has been on the man accused of killing 26 women.
Most of the stories show that the […]

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Twenty minutes ago I was stumbling around in the snow, ice crystals coating my glasses, my fingers getting colder and colder inside my leather gloves. 
The car battery was dead, and I was trying to convince our mini-van to move another four feet, so I could stretch the jumper cables through the hedge from the […]

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The bad news - the present that was supposed to be here for Christmas was shipped to the greater Toronto area, where it’s been languishing for two days.

The good news - it’s very close to my great-grandmother’s birthplace of Stouffville, Ontario.
Minnie March grew up in the Whitchurch-Stouffville area, and ended up moving to Saskatchewan with […]

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Every year there’s something in transit for Christmas.
 
This year it’s a big ticket electronics item, ordered from a "Canadian" website.
 

The package shipped December 19, and thanks to online tracking,
I’m able to watch it wend its way east.  Should I mention to UPS that I
live in Western Canada?
 
The package originated in Illinois, which is not […]

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A feature article about Saskatchewan bloggers gave a peek at some of the province’s blogs Monday morning.

Being one of the only Regina bloggers interviewed, I was fodder for a photo and a couple of quotes.  That’s me poking up at the top of the front page of the Regina Leader-Post.  I was going for the […]

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Why are the forces of political correctness in this world so often strident and humourless bores who act like they never get laid?
I would argue many politically correct folks are witty and quite willing to acknowledge other points of view.  But the ones who lecture the rest of us on what we should be doing, […]

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It’s one of those "Why haven’t we done this before?" decisions. Canadian MedicAlert Foundation is launching a program toay to provide free warning bracelets or necklaces to kids from four to 14 years old with medical conditions that could be life threatening.

From a public service point of view, this is a no-brainer.  Kids […]

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