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Robert Lorin Calder, an English teacher at the University of Saskatchewan, has written the kind of academic dissertation that is doomed to sit on the shelf as if in a jar, pickled. But the book's appendices, not just one but two, are inflamed with gossipy life...
Waiting on the corner for the morning bus is at best a frustrating experience in any city. In Regina, Saskatchewan (pop. 143,000), where temperatures often hover at 20° below zero, it can be downright hazardous. For some residents of Regina's south side, however, bus waiting is no longer a problem. A simple phone call will bring a city bus right to their front door...
...Oblivion. Joni seriously took up music only five years ago. A native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she casually began playing the ukulele at 20, while an art student at Calgary, and drifted into folk music. In Toronto, she worked as a salesgirl to earn the $140 union fee so that she could perform in city cafes. Success was still out of sight when she met, married and eventually was divorced from a folk singer named Chuck Mitchell in Detroit. Meanwhile she had taken the first step out of oblivion by starting to write her own folk-styled songs...
...Force exercises. Even joggers can ask for trouble. "The distance some of them go scares me," says Dr. Richard Morrison, who presides over a heart-conditioning program for West Coast executives. "Long distances can make your knees arthritic or give you shin splints." Recent studies at the University of Saskatchewan confirm earlier suspicions that some of the so-called isometric exercises can impose dangerous demands on the heart...
...auto-insurance costs is to design a system that automatically compensates most victims regardless of fault, and still gives them the option of going to court to ask for more. Such mixed systems are already operating in several other countries, notably in Canada's Saskatchewan Province, where auto insurance costs two-thirds as much as identical coverage in adjoining North Dakota...