Oct
21
Has anyone else noticed that the City of Regina has video clips up on their Election 2009 candidate profiles? I’m glad to live in a city that announces candidate news on Twitter and takes the time to put clips on Youtube.
Now if only we’d vote…
Oct
10
Our civic election campaign is in full swing. And, as part of my commitment to both being informed about the issues and to start updating this blog regularly (again), I have decided to start looking at the races which affect me the most.
As a long time resident of Ward 3, I would like to start off by looking at the four candidates, and the profiles that they submitted to the City of Regina’s page on the election. For fairness, I will cover each of the candidates in the same post and in alphabetical order. Warning, this is going to be a long one… Read more »
Sep
8
Just in case you’re a student and you needed a good reason to get angry, or at least spiteful – Rick Mercer gives you a few reasons to get out there and cast your ballot!
Aug
27
On Sunday, August 23rd, the Regina Symphony Orchestra played a concert in Wascana Park, marking the opening of the 2009/10 season. A wonderful event with vendors, great opening acts and scenery, Symphony Under the Sky was a shining example of accessible fun for all ages. More significantly, it was free.
Regina has had a whole host of amazing events this summer, from classical performances to AC/DC. The problem is that it often costs a great deal of money to attend. They are exclusionary when they are supposed to bring people together. While events often have larger corporate or business sponsors, for the first time Regina’s city council stepped up to the plate to the tune of $25,000. Read more »
Aug
26
The enumerator came by tonight! This is incredibly exciting; there I was, entering my second hour in front of my computer, when my doorbell rang. Wondering whether to stop working, I finally made my way to the door… and there was the enumerator! Like the eight year old in line to see Santa at the mall, I broke into a huge grin and happily gave the pertinent information.
To me, voting is exciting because it’s an opportunity to participate in our democratic process. Yawn, right? Wrong. Read more »
Aug
20
In case it’s not a place you go regularly, downtown Regina’s largest mall, the Cornwall Center, has been undergoing several changes over the past year. Some stores have been moving to other locations in the mall, while others are being renovated. However, it was during my last visit to the Cornwall Center that I noticed the gravest change of all. It appears as if only one store amidst all these changes has actually *closed*… and it’s the bookstore.
As a longtime resident of downtown Regina, let me tell you what this means – it signifies the closure of the last book store in the downtown area. That’s right, you didn’t hallucinate that last sentence, and it’s not a typo. If you want to BUY A BOOK you must leave the downtown area. Read more »
Aug
14
From the Regina Downtown Business Improvement District:
The Regina Downtown BID is creating a mural artist registry to link artists with public and private property owners interested in commissioning mural artwork downtown for high risk graffiti and vandalism sites and other public art-related projects.
If you wish to participate, please fill out the Mural Artist Registry Application Form and submit it along with the requested documents to the Regina Downtown BID. All submissions can be updated on an ongoing basis.
This is definitely a wonderful program and I hope that many local artists will get together, create some art, and beautify our downtown. Nothing is worse than a cold, lifeless slab of concrete…
Aug
11
An out of province developer filed documents with the City of Regina, outlining a plan to demolish the Plains Hotel and build a hotel/condos on the corner of Albert Street and Victoria Avenue. Don’t get out your wrecking balls just yet – the developer has to file a discretionary-use application, go through a review process and get City Council to officially approve the new development. However, I hope that the process is smooth and we get another beautiful, new building in downtown Regina.
Downtown Regina badly needs two things – more hotel rooms and more places to live. While this project is far from the affordable housing of my dreams, it is a step in the right direction. The Plains has history, but that corner has a certain mystique and deserves one more beautiful building to top it all off.
Now give me a jazz club on the ground floor….
Aug
10
I read an interesting study the other day, and then watched news services light up their opinions on it. The study wanted to know whether there was a nutritional difference between organic and non-organic produce. This study was carried out over almost fifty years, and included numerous doctors, scientists, and researchers from around the world. One of their most widely discussed results was the following – in 7 of the 10 nutritional factors that were examined, there was almost no difference in nutrition between organic and non-organic produce. Read more »
Jul
16
There’s something that has caught my attention from the very start of the Regina Streets Magazine, and it continues to peak my interest since the start of this website. That is, we get just as many comments and compliments from the “right” of the political spectrum as we do from the “left”.
I think that partisanship is both detrimental and ridiculous, in politics and in life. Take this magazine. Do I have to be on the left to talk about the causes and effects of poverty? Do I have to be on the right to have a strong corporate business model and believe in microdevelopment? Absolutely not. Read more »