I never knew that a comma could be used in a URL. Had to check it in IE and zoom-in closely with the Mac. It’s true!
with the exception of 1982 to 1986 the Riversdale riding has been held by a CCF/NDP member for about 50 years. Over that 50 year span it has gone from a neighborhood of hard working Ukrainian immigrant families to an area of drug addicts and prostitutes. In fact, Lorne Calvert’s riding has one of the highest rates of child prostitution in NORTH AMERICA.
You have to wonder if that wasn’t the CCF/NDP plan.
And murals…I saw a mural.
Wow! Breath-taking! Particularly in the 2nd photograph, the paradoxical effect of the decorative streetlights and monochromatic banners juxtaposed against the steel bars on the windows of adjoining buildings is itself a metaphor for the breadth and diversity of the cultural mosaic of the inner city.
They’re probably more fun than the old ones to throw stones at, too.
So…where are the fuses?
CRB
Rue du Calvert et Romanow Drive…Good one!They have created one of the fastest growing sectors in the Saskatoon economy – poverty!
Rue du Calvert et Romanow Drive…Good one!They have created one of the fastest growing sectors in the Saskatoon economy – poverty!
Not bad looking, far superior to Windsor,ON. main street Ouellette Ave.
So is the position of Lamp Lighter a union job or do they contract out?
Considering the two globes below each flag, it would be nice to see these places photographed at twilight or darker. Maybe those flags will get a bit less dreary, though maybe they just need a bit of high resolution sunlight.
Nice street lights, hope they still have un-global-warming tungsten in them.
[quote]It is currently represented by Councillor Pat Lorje. She first elected in 1979, and was re-elected in 1982, 1985, and 1988. Lorje then moved into provincial politics; she ran for the NDP and was elected in 1991, and re-elected in 1995 and 1999. She left politics in 2003 and moved to San Francisco with her husband. She returned to Saskatoon after a couple of years, and was again elected as Ward 2 councillor in 2006. [/quote]
San Francisco You Say! Very Interesting!
Saddam used to put heads on top of his lamps as an extra touch. Kept the locals peaceful!
Nice streetlights. They did something like that near where I live. Took down the wooden poles and stuck everything underground and replaced the streetlights with something nice.
A lot less ugly.
Of course the neighbourhood didn’t improve until they chased a goodly fraction of the bars out.
Hey, spiffy banners. Looks like they are going to celebrate something important in 2005! Taxpayer’s dollars at work again.
Wow, I’s really love this place. Love the 3rd pic Kate. The banners make me feel at home, accepted and quite tolerant! Definitely the next stop for the morning show series, Where in the world is Matt Lauer
The trash cans metal bar motif ties in with the communities use of iron bars and chain link nicely.
Are those “WANTED” posters?
The parallel lines of the above ground wiring create a sense of prairie distance whilst mimicking the gravel in the gutter and creating a juxtiposition with the vertical steel bars in the windows and the frost fences .
pure art
Did somebody discharge a neutron bomb there?
The shot looking west up 20th (the 3rd one) is quite sad really.
See the tee pee on the right and the orthodox church on the left. The bars on the windows and doors of the buildings fronting 20th Street weren’t there when the orthodox church was first put up. The tee pee was put up much later. Both it and the church are supposed to be symbolic of serving a larger being or a larger purpose. Let’s hope the tee pee is as succesful with its congregation as the church was with its.
But I don’t see it happening
Perhaps it would have helped if they painted the street Gold….
must be a slow news day, Kate. Let us not forget that this riding is represented by Carol Skelton, and has been for some time now.
looks like Simpson Street in Thunder Bay
Is that an oxymoron?
Just by looking at the photos anyone can tell the place is lousy with NDP’ ers.
From wiki
Riversdale exists within the federal electoral district of Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar. It is currently represented by Carol Skelton of the Conservative Party of Canada, first elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004 and 2006.
Provincially, the area overlaps two constituencies. The west part is within the constituency of Saskatoon Riversdale. It is currently represented by Lorne Calvert of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP), first elected in a 2001 by-election and re-elected 2003. Previously, Calvert had been the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Moose Jaw Wakamow since 1986. The east part lies within the constituency of Saskatoon Centre. It is currently represented by David Forbes of the NDP, first elected in a 2001 by-election and re-elected in 2003.
In Saskatoon’s non-partisan municipal politics, Riversdale lies within ward 2. It is currently represented by Councillor Pat Lorje. She first elected in 1979, and was re-elected in 1982, 1985, and 1988. Lorje then moved into provincial politics; she ran for the NDP and was elected in 1991, and re-elected in 1995 and 1999. She left politics in 2003 and moved to San Francisco with her husband. She returned to Saskatoon after a couple of years, and was again elected as Ward 2 councillor in 2006.
Not just represented by the NDP – two consecutive NDP Premiers, no less!
Lipstick on a pig.
Do you think we’re stupid? I know pictures taken from Gstaadt in the Swiss Alps when I see them.
“Not just represented by the NDP – two consecutive NDP Premiers, no less!”
So before true dope ia how many places had bars on the windows? The just society, indeed.
As one of those Militia dudes from Dundurn am I being confronted with my past sins?
P & P; Simpson Street you say? Perhaps it could use a community mall type of thing like the recently canned Station 20 project in Saskatoon. Oooops! I forgot Victoriaville 😉 Me bad.
Looks just like downtown Winnipeg. Wonder what else we have in common. Oh, yeah, an NDP government.
C’mon, Barbara, downtown Winnipeg doesn’t look as nice as that!
Barbara — my thoughts exactly. Life wasn’t exactly heaven on earth downtown under Filmon and the Tories, but at least I wasn’t afraid to walk down there. Now? You wouldn’t catch me downtown during the day, nevermind after midnight.
Gee, I thought Hamilton looked bad. Oh yeah, it still does!
Good post Kate. The truth is a bitter mistress for the NDP…
“Over that 50 year span it has gone from a neighborhood of hard working Ukrainian immigrant families to an area of drug addicts and prostitutes.”
And during that 50 year span Saskatoon has also what, tripled in size[1]? Pushing on that area from all sides into becoming an inner city core, as all cities in north america have in this era of cheap oil, pushing poverty into it from all sides.
Also noticeable; that is one of the older neighbourhoods in Saskatoon. Many of the other areas don’t share it’s problems, for no other reason than they are newer. The people who have been living in new areas have recently went through selection pressure in order to be able to afford to live there in the first place. Riversdale perhaps not so much.
There are, by the way, moderately pleasant suburbs in saskatoon-riversdale(I grew up in one. Calvert kept forgetting to mention our neighbourhood in his newsletters), along with the not-so-pleasant areas(hell, I used to walk along that very road in #2 on my way to work), but even those slowly get pushed to the center of the city, and as the city grows, they rot, and the city’s problems gets centralized within them. As Saskatoon continues to push it’s urban sprawl outwards in all directions as fast as it can, expect this to grow worse. The NDP aren’t completely blameless here, mind you, but let’s be reasonable.
[1] google cache
I made the Chelsea’s Bakery sign. Now that was a definite improvement!
Texas Canuck, too true!
Victoria and Syndicate was a busy intersection.
Typical municpal problem solving. “Hey everyone! I have a great idea! Let’s put decorative street lights down 20th street to spruce it up!” Question “What about the homeless people and the prostitutes?” Answer “Oh, come on! The spiffy lamps will make them all look better!”
Every city has these neighbourhoods. It’s cheaper, and more importantly, politiclally easier, to propose shiny retro-style street lamps than it is to actually do something about cleaning up the neighbourhood.
No wonder all your comments are so dismissive on this area of Saskatoon. ALL OF YOU DON’T LIVE THERE. If anyone of you lived there, you would have to live up to your beliefs and you would do everything in your power to improve it RIGHT? If you say No to that than you are full of it (that stinky brown stuff)
Another thing I find odd is that all of you are laughing at Calvert’s cosmetic improvements, but you fail to see that it is Atchison’s call on what happens to this neighbourhood. ONCE again Kate pulls a MSM gaffe by misleadingly you all by putting the blame on the NDP when all along its the city council that she should be mocking.
AM I Wrong??? NO
I see many other posters recognize the existence of a “transformative decorative street light industry” in urban centres all across the country. Some of the other stories we were told: “They help attract business and jobs to the community”; “they help us reach for the future by giving us a sense of our past”; “they help existing businesses prosper”.
Doesn’t every local business district in Canada have some of these? How is the transformative prosperity going?
Eh, the place still looks crap.
And I suspect China is just a little bit richer for it.
No offense but it looks like downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming except with fewer billboards. But, it doesn’t look much worse than the little burg just north of me. Zoning is only a word in Iowa.
One of my employee’s pointed out the 420 above the bakery in the second photo. I wonder if they bake ‘special’ brownies?
Mon Dieu, zees ees obviously a cheap photoshop. Eet ees ma Champs Elysee minus zee Eiffel Tower! Si belle, si gentil! Mon cafe is on the left in zee troisieme photograph. Ah, mon gai Paris! Or must we now change our saying to “See Reeverdale, and die”? Enchante.
Looks exactly like Selkirk Ave in Winnipeg, minus the *ahem* “Spirited Energy”
censorship
Its a good thing this site doesn’t speak for anyone else except Kate, because Kate is misleading her blogging public by laying blame for the lights on Calvert. The decision for the lights rests solely on City Council. So call this item Rue de Atchison; if not then Kate is clearing showing that she is feeding the conservative hate frenzy on the NDP
Or call it Rue de Skelton, because its a federal conservative riding. Maybe she should get the credit. But NOOOOOOO Kate wouldn’t dare spin anything like the MSM would!
I see the problem. There are no safe injection sites.
Ta.
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You misunderstand, Beardyscree.
I don’t blame Calvert for the streetlights.
I blame him and Romanow for the prostitution, drug abuse, child neglect, crime, and general malaise of that community. (Until a couple of years ago, Carol Skelton wasn’t in office, she was in opposition.)
But Roy and Lorne – they weren’t just MLA’s, they were provincial premiers, and look what it got Riversdale. Decline.
Maybe the old adage is correct after all – people get the government they deserve. They returned Calvert to his seat. Perhaps that’s how they like things.
It looks just fabulous.
I never knew that a comma could be used in a URL. Had to check it in IE and zoom-in closely with the Mac. It’s true!
with the exception of 1982 to 1986 the Riversdale riding has been held by a CCF/NDP member for about 50 years. Over that 50 year span it has gone from a neighborhood of hard working Ukrainian immigrant families to an area of drug addicts and prostitutes. In fact, Lorne Calvert’s riding has one of the highest rates of child prostitution in NORTH AMERICA.
You have to wonder if that wasn’t the CCF/NDP plan.
And murals…I saw a mural.
Wow! Breath-taking! Particularly in the 2nd photograph, the paradoxical effect of the decorative streetlights and monochromatic banners juxtaposed against the steel bars on the windows of adjoining buildings is itself a metaphor for the breadth and diversity of the cultural mosaic of the inner city.
They’re probably more fun than the old ones to throw stones at, too.
So…where are the fuses?
CRB
Rue du Calvert et Romanow Drive…Good one!They have created one of the fastest growing sectors in the Saskatoon economy – poverty!
Rue du Calvert et Romanow Drive…Good one!They have created one of the fastest growing sectors in the Saskatoon economy – poverty!
Not bad looking, far superior to Windsor,ON. main street Ouellette Ave.
So is the position of Lamp Lighter a union job or do they contract out?
Considering the two globes below each flag, it would be nice to see these places photographed at twilight or darker. Maybe those flags will get a bit less dreary, though maybe they just need a bit of high resolution sunlight.
Nice street lights, hope they still have un-global-warming tungsten in them.
[quote]It is currently represented by Councillor Pat Lorje. She first elected in 1979, and was re-elected in 1982, 1985, and 1988. Lorje then moved into provincial politics; she ran for the NDP and was elected in 1991, and re-elected in 1995 and 1999. She left politics in 2003 and moved to San Francisco with her husband. She returned to Saskatoon after a couple of years, and was again elected as Ward 2 councillor in 2006. [/quote]
San Francisco You Say! Very Interesting!
Saddam used to put heads on top of his lamps as an extra touch. Kept the locals peaceful!
Nice streetlights. They did something like that near where I live. Took down the wooden poles and stuck everything underground and replaced the streetlights with something nice.
A lot less ugly.
Of course the neighbourhood didn’t improve until they chased a goodly fraction of the bars out.
Hey, spiffy banners. Looks like they are going to celebrate something important in 2005! Taxpayer’s dollars at work again.
Wow, I’s really love this place. Love the 3rd pic Kate. The banners make me feel at home, accepted and quite tolerant! Definitely the next stop for the morning show series, Where in the world is Matt Lauer
The trash cans metal bar motif ties in with the communities use of iron bars and chain link nicely.
Are those “WANTED” posters?
The parallel lines of the above ground wiring create a sense of prairie distance whilst mimicking the gravel in the gutter and creating a juxtiposition with the vertical steel bars in the windows and the frost fences .
pure art
Did somebody discharge a neutron bomb there?
The shot looking west up 20th (the 3rd one) is quite sad really.
See the tee pee on the right and the orthodox church on the left. The bars on the windows and doors of the buildings fronting 20th Street weren’t there when the orthodox church was first put up. The tee pee was put up much later. Both it and the church are supposed to be symbolic of serving a larger being or a larger purpose. Let’s hope the tee pee is as succesful with its congregation as the church was with its.
But I don’t see it happening
Perhaps it would have helped if they painted the street Gold….
must be a slow news day, Kate. Let us not forget that this riding is represented by Carol Skelton, and has been for some time now.
looks like Simpson Street in Thunder Bay
Is that an oxymoron?
Just by looking at the photos anyone can tell the place is lousy with NDP’ ers.
From wiki
Riversdale exists within the federal electoral district of Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar. It is currently represented by Carol Skelton of the Conservative Party of Canada, first elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004 and 2006.
Provincially, the area overlaps two constituencies. The west part is within the constituency of Saskatoon Riversdale. It is currently represented by Lorne Calvert of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP), first elected in a 2001 by-election and re-elected 2003. Previously, Calvert had been the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Moose Jaw Wakamow since 1986. The east part lies within the constituency of Saskatoon Centre. It is currently represented by David Forbes of the NDP, first elected in a 2001 by-election and re-elected in 2003.
In Saskatoon’s non-partisan municipal politics, Riversdale lies within ward 2. It is currently represented by Councillor Pat Lorje. She first elected in 1979, and was re-elected in 1982, 1985, and 1988. Lorje then moved into provincial politics; she ran for the NDP and was elected in 1991, and re-elected in 1995 and 1999. She left politics in 2003 and moved to San Francisco with her husband. She returned to Saskatoon after a couple of years, and was again elected as Ward 2 councillor in 2006.
Not just represented by the NDP – two consecutive NDP Premiers, no less!
Lipstick on a pig.
Do you think we’re stupid? I know pictures taken from Gstaadt in the Swiss Alps when I see them.
“Not just represented by the NDP – two consecutive NDP Premiers, no less!”
So before true dope ia how many places had bars on the windows? The just society, indeed.
As one of those Militia dudes from Dundurn am I being confronted with my past sins?
P & P; Simpson Street you say? Perhaps it could use a community mall type of thing like the recently canned Station 20 project in Saskatoon. Oooops! I forgot Victoriaville 😉 Me bad.
Looks just like downtown Winnipeg. Wonder what else we have in common. Oh, yeah, an NDP government.
C’mon, Barbara, downtown Winnipeg doesn’t look as nice as that!
Barbara — my thoughts exactly. Life wasn’t exactly heaven on earth downtown under Filmon and the Tories, but at least I wasn’t afraid to walk down there. Now? You wouldn’t catch me downtown during the day, nevermind after midnight.
Gee, I thought Hamilton looked bad. Oh yeah, it still does!
Good post Kate. The truth is a bitter mistress for the NDP…
“Over that 50 year span it has gone from a neighborhood of hard working Ukrainian immigrant families to an area of drug addicts and prostitutes.”
And during that 50 year span Saskatoon has also what, tripled in size[1]? Pushing on that area from all sides into becoming an inner city core, as all cities in north america have in this era of cheap oil, pushing poverty into it from all sides.
Also noticeable; that is one of the older neighbourhoods in Saskatoon. Many of the other areas don’t share it’s problems, for no other reason than they are newer. The people who have been living in new areas have recently went through selection pressure in order to be able to afford to live there in the first place. Riversdale perhaps not so much.
There are, by the way, moderately pleasant suburbs in saskatoon-riversdale(I grew up in one. Calvert kept forgetting to mention our neighbourhood in his newsletters), along with the not-so-pleasant areas(hell, I used to walk along that very road in #2 on my way to work), but even those slowly get pushed to the center of the city, and as the city grows, they rot, and the city’s problems gets centralized within them. As Saskatoon continues to push it’s urban sprawl outwards in all directions as fast as it can, expect this to grow worse. The NDP aren’t completely blameless here, mind you, but let’s be reasonable.
[1] google cache
I made the Chelsea’s Bakery sign. Now that was a definite improvement!
Texas Canuck, too true!
Victoria and Syndicate was a busy intersection.
Typical municpal problem solving. “Hey everyone! I have a great idea! Let’s put decorative street lights down 20th street to spruce it up!” Question “What about the homeless people and the prostitutes?” Answer “Oh, come on! The spiffy lamps will make them all look better!”
Every city has these neighbourhoods. It’s cheaper, and more importantly, politiclally easier, to propose shiny retro-style street lamps than it is to actually do something about cleaning up the neighbourhood.
No wonder all your comments are so dismissive on this area of Saskatoon. ALL OF YOU DON’T LIVE THERE. If anyone of you lived there, you would have to live up to your beliefs and you would do everything in your power to improve it RIGHT? If you say No to that than you are full of it (that stinky brown stuff)
Another thing I find odd is that all of you are laughing at Calvert’s cosmetic improvements, but you fail to see that it is Atchison’s call on what happens to this neighbourhood. ONCE again Kate pulls a MSM gaffe by misleadingly you all by putting the blame on the NDP when all along its the city council that she should be mocking.
AM I Wrong??? NO
I see many other posters recognize the existence of a “transformative decorative street light industry” in urban centres all across the country. Some of the other stories we were told: “They help attract business and jobs to the community”; “they help us reach for the future by giving us a sense of our past”; “they help existing businesses prosper”.
Doesn’t every local business district in Canada have some of these? How is the transformative prosperity going?
Eh, the place still looks crap.
And I suspect China is just a little bit richer for it.
No offense but it looks like downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming except with fewer billboards. But, it doesn’t look much worse than the little burg just north of me. Zoning is only a word in Iowa.
One of my employee’s pointed out the 420 above the bakery in the second photo. I wonder if they bake ‘special’ brownies?
Mon Dieu, zees ees obviously a cheap photoshop. Eet ees ma Champs Elysee minus zee Eiffel Tower! Si belle, si gentil! Mon cafe is on the left in zee troisieme photograph. Ah, mon gai Paris! Or must we now change our saying to “See Reeverdale, and die”? Enchante.
Looks exactly like Selkirk Ave in Winnipeg, minus the *ahem* “Spirited Energy”
censorship
Its a good thing this site doesn’t speak for anyone else except Kate, because Kate is misleading her blogging public by laying blame for the lights on Calvert. The decision for the lights rests solely on City Council. So call this item Rue de Atchison; if not then Kate is clearing showing that she is feeding the conservative hate frenzy on the NDP
Or call it Rue de Skelton, because its a federal conservative riding. Maybe she should get the credit. But NOOOOOOO Kate wouldn’t dare spin anything like the MSM would!
I see the problem. There are no safe injection sites.
Ta.
The Scold
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Need advice? E-mail your questions to:
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You misunderstand, Beardyscree.
I don’t blame Calvert for the streetlights.
I blame him and Romanow for the prostitution, drug abuse, child neglect, crime, and general malaise of that community. (Until a couple of years ago, Carol Skelton wasn’t in office, she was in opposition.)
But Roy and Lorne – they weren’t just MLA’s, they were provincial premiers, and look what it got Riversdale. Decline.
Maybe the old adage is correct after all – people get the government they deserve. They returned Calvert to his seat. Perhaps that’s how they like things.