When will Saskatoon have a Ring Road like the other four major Prairie cities, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg? A better question might be WILL Saskatoon ever have a Ring Road? Edmonton's ring road was completed and opened to traffic in 2016. The final segment of Calgary's ring road opened to traffic last D...

Last Wednesday I started Coffeetalk by saying, "We may soon live in a world where it is hard to tell whether the person speaking to us in a video is real or generated by a computer program". It seems every time I peek at the latest news I see some new innovation in Artificial Intelligence. Open AI is now to...

Exactly 20 years ago today Coffeetalk was about April Fools Day. I said its history isn't entirely clear. You can't pinpoint the first April Fools Day on a calendar. The beginning of the tradition may have been the year 1582 in France. Prior to that year the New Year was celebrated for eight days ending on April 1. ...

February was Black History Month, during which people across the country participated in events and festivities that honour the legacy of Black people in Canada and their communities. There were a number of Afro-centric events in Saskatoon including an African and Urban Fashion Show at the Remai Art Gallery that I had...

I saw this headline, "Canada slips to 15th place in annual World Happiness Report". Well, if that didn't just make me want to crawl under the covers and hibernate till June. Only the 15th happiest country on the planet? Parliament should take a break from fighting over the carbon tax to look into this im...

I've said before that I am something of a newshound. I like to keep up on what is going on in my city, province, country and elsewhere in the world. As if the war in Ukraine isn't bad enough, the stories coming out of Gaza in the Middle East night after night on both our Canadian and American TV newscasts is heart w...

We may soon live in a world where it is hard to tell whether the person speaking to us in a video is real or generated by a computer program. That's something to ponder. Here's something else: Google researchers have unveiled an AI that can bring still photos to life. You heard me right. It's called "VLOGGER...

When you look at the airline industry over the years, the changes are interesting. Westjet has bought Sunwing and will wind it down and integrate it into Westjet later this year. Westjet has come a long way since its inception 30 years ago in 1994. Who remembers what Air Canada was called before it became Air Cana...

What's in a name? Supposedly plenty. Parents spend serious time pondering names for their newborns. Popular baby names change through the eras..... well, mostly. Let's go back to the middle of the Fab Fifties in Canada, 70 years ago, the beginning of Rock & Roll. The Top 5 names for girls in order? Mary, ...

A couple of interesting articles caught my eye during weekday lunch hour reading. One piece from Monday was titled, "Biden and Trump pour big money into AM/FM as Radio proves vital". The reasoning behind President Joe Biden's multi-million-dollar radio advertising push in battleground states is to "m...