I moved here after my daughter was born so I’m not exactly dance-club/live-music-attending guy any more, so can some one please tell me the name of the nightclub that formerly occupied the second floor of 2300 Dewdney?
Regina Planning Commission last night approved an application to turn the space that was once that nightclub into offices.
The nightclub on the first floor of 2300 Dewdney is to remain.
This application will go before city council on March 23 for final approval.
3.12.2009
New Apartment Block for Broad Street: RPC Update I
Wednesday evening, the Regina Planning Commission approved an application to build a four-story, 70-unit apartment complex at 110 Broad Street North. According to the report, there was some community concern about this development. Chief among them being the shadow the building would cast on the houses to the west and the fact that it would block residents' view of Broad Street (because, naturally, Broad Street is something you'd want to look at). The city’s need for rental housing won out in this case, however.
And as for that... it’s true the city needs more affordable rental properties. And this is good sign that developers do see it as feasible to build them. The downside is that this building is at Broad and 5th which is just beyond the north end of the Warehouse District, and while I think this is still technically in the “Central Zone” it isn’t exactly centrally located, if you know what I mean -- especially when you factor in the PHZ (Pedestrian Hostile Zone) in and around the rail overpass.
More than 70 rental units have been approved for conversion to condos on Rae Street between 13th and College in the last year alone. In addition, there have been conversion approvals for a building at Montague and 13th, two more in the Transition Area and most recently, one near the UofR. Meanwhile, cranes aren’t exactly going up all around the downtown to build affordable housing. (Nor around the university as far as I know.)
A sad byproduct of all this attention being paid to the downtown and of all this resurgence in interest in living centrally is that more and more lower income people are being driven towards the fringe of the city where there aren’t so many services. That’s fine, I suppose, if you’re living in a suburb and own a car or three, but many of the people being displaced in all this gentrification aren’t car owners.
Oh... one other bit of good news. The greenhouse/plant shop that is currently on the site where this apartment block is being built is remaining. It will just be reoriented on the lot. I’ve a soft spot for greenhouses.
This application will go before city council on March 23 for final approval.
And as for that... it’s true the city needs more affordable rental properties. And this is good sign that developers do see it as feasible to build them. The downside is that this building is at Broad and 5th which is just beyond the north end of the Warehouse District, and while I think this is still technically in the “Central Zone” it isn’t exactly centrally located, if you know what I mean -- especially when you factor in the PHZ (Pedestrian Hostile Zone) in and around the rail overpass.
More than 70 rental units have been approved for conversion to condos on Rae Street between 13th and College in the last year alone. In addition, there have been conversion approvals for a building at Montague and 13th, two more in the Transition Area and most recently, one near the UofR. Meanwhile, cranes aren’t exactly going up all around the downtown to build affordable housing. (Nor around the university as far as I know.)
A sad byproduct of all this attention being paid to the downtown and of all this resurgence in interest in living centrally is that more and more lower income people are being driven towards the fringe of the city where there aren’t so many services. That’s fine, I suppose, if you’re living in a suburb and own a car or three, but many of the people being displaced in all this gentrification aren’t car owners.
Oh... one other bit of good news. The greenhouse/plant shop that is currently on the site where this apartment block is being built is remaining. It will just be reoriented on the lot. I’ve a soft spot for greenhouses.
This application will go before city council on March 23 for final approval.
3.11.2009
More Wishful Thinking
This is something else I'd kind of hoped would've disappeared once Obama became president. Oh well, Rome wasn't built in a day. (Fashionism)
And I just took that Virginity Pledge in the hopes I’d get more action!
President Obama's administration and the U.S. Senate just reversed a dumb-assed portion of the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act that prevented pharmaceutical companies from providing low-cost birth control to women who needed it. Not only that, but it cut $14 million in funding from the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program that promoted a no-sex-until-marriage line. Though it didn’t prevent babies from being born or STDs from spreading, we do shed a tear for the loss of funding to an idea that helped provide the ideal environment for the creation of the term “Saddlebacking.”
Hurrah to common sense, and a big yay to lower-cost birth control pills. And Barrack? I couldn’t love you more than I do right now.
Rockin' On The CBC
Here's prairie dog and Planet S ' new teevee commercial, which will be rawkin' yo azz on the CBC for the next little while. The song is "Cold City" by Regina's Hot Blood Bombers, from their 2008 album Dirty Little Party (Transistor 66). Concept and animation is all prairie dog/Planet S, baby.
Thanks to designer Alex Whyte, who did all the, um, actual WORK, to the CBC for splicing in the music and to James Brotheridge for general helpfulness above and beyond the call of duty.
Thanks to designer Alex Whyte, who did all the, um, actual WORK, to the CBC for splicing in the music and to James Brotheridge for general helpfulness above and beyond the call of duty.
Six in the Morning
1. THAT SINKING FEELING: Scientists gathering in Copenhagen at the International Scientific Congress on Climte Change warn that sea levels could rise twice as much as earlier predicted. (CBC via DeSmogBlog)
2. THAT SINKING FEELING II: Meanwhile, a gathering of climate change deniers in New York swap misinfo about the climate crisis and tales of being quoted favourably by Rush Limbaugh. Who's listening to these jokers? Well the National Post for one. And two. (DeSmogBlog)
3. THAT LIFE PRESERVER THEY'VE THROWN YOU IS AN ANVIL: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives economists indicate that with the bank rate close to zero, the tax cuts in Harper's stimulus package will actually have a negative impact on the economy. (CCPA website)
4. IF AT FIRST YOU CAN'T GESTAPO, TRY, TRY AGAIN: Harper's little minions are bringing in legislation to restore extraordinary police powers in cases where terrorism is suspected. They do this because everyday our police force demonstrates that they are to be trusted with even more power. (Globe and Mail.)
5. THE INTERNET WON'T SAVE YOU: Record traffic on the federal government's online job bank is bringing their servers to a standstill. (Globe and Mail)
6. THE POWERS OF POSITIVE DRINKING: Dr Malcolm Lloyd will be appearing on Good Morning America this week to discuss his findings that regular drinking (yes, of alcohol) can help stave off everything from the common cold, some forms of cancer and the onset of Alzheimers. It also has the added benefit of numbing your memory of the other five items in this Six in the Morning. Make mine a Manhattan, bartender... (New York Post)
2. THAT SINKING FEELING II: Meanwhile, a gathering of climate change deniers in New York swap misinfo about the climate crisis and tales of being quoted favourably by Rush Limbaugh. Who's listening to these jokers? Well the National Post for one. And two. (DeSmogBlog)
3. THAT LIFE PRESERVER THEY'VE THROWN YOU IS AN ANVIL: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives economists indicate that with the bank rate close to zero, the tax cuts in Harper's stimulus package will actually have a negative impact on the economy. (CCPA website)
4. IF AT FIRST YOU CAN'T GESTAPO, TRY, TRY AGAIN: Harper's little minions are bringing in legislation to restore extraordinary police powers in cases where terrorism is suspected. They do this because everyday our police force demonstrates that they are to be trusted with even more power. (Globe and Mail.)
5. THE INTERNET WON'T SAVE YOU: Record traffic on the federal government's online job bank is bringing their servers to a standstill. (Globe and Mail)
6. THE POWERS OF POSITIVE DRINKING: Dr Malcolm Lloyd will be appearing on Good Morning America this week to discuss his findings that regular drinking (yes, of alcohol) can help stave off everything from the common cold, some forms of cancer and the onset of Alzheimers. It also has the added benefit of numbing your memory of the other five items in this Six in the Morning. Make mine a Manhattan, bartender... (New York Post)
3.10.2009
March Madness
For all you NCAA college hoops fans out there, this probably sounds like a dream come true (the Onion).
3.09.2009
More B.S.
Freelance writers are notorious for recycling material. So I'm going to take my Feb. 26 Ask Greg addressing all the fuss over Jessica Simpson's rumoured weight gain and convert it into a blog post on accusations that have been levelled against Britney Spears following the debut of her new Circus tour in New Orleans the other night that she's put on a pound or ten (InMusic). To make this work, all you have to do is re-read the column, and every time you encounter Jessica's name just substitute Britney's. Oh yeah, and instead of 34Ds it should be 38Cs.
This Week at City Hall
No time to scan the meeting agendas right now but I'll try and get back and add in highlights later. So, in short:
Monday, Mar 9
Regina Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee (12:15 pm)
City Council Meeting (5:30 pm)
Wednesday, Mar 11
Regina Planning Commission (4 pm)
Paratransit Advisory Board (5:30 pm)
Of course, if you're on tenterhooks to find out what these meetings are all about, you can read the agendas yourself and even all the relevant reports by clicking your way to the city's website.
Monday, Mar 9
Regina Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee (12:15 pm)
City Council Meeting (5:30 pm)
Wednesday, Mar 11
Regina Planning Commission (4 pm)
Paratransit Advisory Board (5:30 pm)
Of course, if you're on tenterhooks to find out what these meetings are all about, you can read the agendas yourself and even all the relevant reports by clicking your way to the city's website.
Six In The Morning
Coming at you like a hurricane of facts and fury:
1 CUT, CUT, CUT Canadian autoworkers will vote on a plan to slash their wages and, more horribly, pensions to retired autoworkers after the Conservative minority federal government blackmailed them into taking cuts as "survivability" test for the auto industry. That kaboom you hear as you sip your Monday morning coffee? SFL leader Larry Hubich's head exploding. (Toronto Star, Larry Hubich's blog)
2 BACK TO BUSINESS King Ignatieff of the federal Liberals retrofits his party after last fall's failure at the polls. Dion's shade of green was so gaudy, anyway. (Toronto Star)
3 LA LA LA LA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU Speaking of un-greening, the Czech Republic just branded itself as a climate-change denying backwater when it's douchebag president addressed the world's largest convention of hacks, hucksters and freelance corporate apologists, including busybody Canadian denier Ross McItrick. You'd think with economies tanking and the north pole melting this wouldn't be the right time to share your anti-scientific claptrap and delusions of free market infallibility, but give these evil dorks points for consistency. (The Guardian)
4 FIFTY YEARS OF BARBIE The children's doll with the proportions of a breast-implanted sexbot turns 50 today (LA Times).
5 THREE YEARS Not really Monday news since the sentence came down Friday afternoon, but Christopher Pauchay, guilty of criminal negligience, is heading back to jail. (CBC)
6 THAT THING IS SMALLLLL The Leader-Post publishes a 28-page Monday edition. Prairie dog's in-house L-P archivist says that's the smallest he's ever seen the Monday paper. Not sure how a newspaper that puny is good for democracy and informed citizenry; prairie dog can't cover everything you know. Well, at least not yet.
1 CUT, CUT, CUT Canadian autoworkers will vote on a plan to slash their wages and, more horribly, pensions to retired autoworkers after the Conservative minority federal government blackmailed them into taking cuts as "survivability" test for the auto industry. That kaboom you hear as you sip your Monday morning coffee? SFL leader Larry Hubich's head exploding. (Toronto Star, Larry Hubich's blog)
2 BACK TO BUSINESS King Ignatieff of the federal Liberals retrofits his party after last fall's failure at the polls. Dion's shade of green was so gaudy, anyway. (Toronto Star)
3 LA LA LA LA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU Speaking of un-greening, the Czech Republic just branded itself as a climate-change denying backwater when it's douchebag president addressed the world's largest convention of hacks, hucksters and freelance corporate apologists, including busybody Canadian denier Ross McItrick. You'd think with economies tanking and the north pole melting this wouldn't be the right time to share your anti-scientific claptrap and delusions of free market infallibility, but give these evil dorks points for consistency. (The Guardian)
4 FIFTY YEARS OF BARBIE The children's doll with the proportions of a breast-implanted sexbot turns 50 today (LA Times).
5 THREE YEARS Not really Monday news since the sentence came down Friday afternoon, but Christopher Pauchay, guilty of criminal negligience, is heading back to jail. (CBC)
6 THAT THING IS SMALLLLL The Leader-Post publishes a 28-page Monday edition. Prairie dog's in-house L-P archivist says that's the smallest he's ever seen the Monday paper. Not sure how a newspaper that puny is good for democracy and informed citizenry; prairie dog can't cover everything you know. Well, at least not yet.
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