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  1. New episode: The House on Ottawa Street — the disappearance of Tamra Keepness.

    Tamra was five years old when she vanished from her family home in Regina, Saskatchewan, sometime between darkness and dawn on July 6, 2004.

    Watch:
    YouTube: youtu.be/4h1_Vy0ksmY

    Rumble: rumble.com/v7cdobu-the-house-o

    CW: missing child, unresolved case

    #TamraKeepness #TrueCrimeMaps #CanadianTrueCrime #MissingPersons #ColdCase #UnsolvedMystery #MMIWG #Regina #Saskatchewan

  2. “Canada is home to a total of 16 owl species. Poulin said having the exhibit makes seeing the ones found in Saskatchewan more accessible.”

    cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewa

  3. Tommy Stevens closes out scrappy Saskatchewan Roughriders win in Ottawa (& other thoughts)

    Photo: Gord Weber/3DownNation. All rights reserved. The Saskatchewan Roughriders found a way to record a scrappy 27-22 win…
    #Canada #Ottawa #3Down #3DownNation #A.J.Allen #AJAllen #AlonzoAddae #AntoineBrooksJr. #BrianCole #CadeMcdonald #Canadian #CFL #KeeSeanJohnson #KianSchaffer-Baker #regina #Riders #Roughriders #Saskatchewan #saskatchewanroughriders #TrevorHarris #ZackFry
    europesays.com/canada/115779/

  4. People want safer streets 🚸

    via @[email protected] "It's been two years since the City of #Regina introduced a community safety zone along 13th Avenue in the Cathedral neighborhood. Now, the city is asking locals whether it's working and what changes, if any, should come next"

    #streetsafety

    Is Regina’s Cathedral communit...

  5. @jeffhorton

    "A European thinks a hundred kilometers is a long distance, while a North American thinks 100 years is a long time."

    Calgary <-> Regina: 7 hours
    Regina <-> Winnipeg: 5 hours

    #YQR #Regina

  6. @jeffhorton

    "A European thinks a hundred kilometers is a long distance, while a North American thinks 100 years is a long time."

    Calgary <-> Regina: 7 hours
    Regina <-> Winnipeg: 5 hours

    #YQR #Regina

  7. If you're looking for something fun to do in #Regina tonight, we're (The Inconsoulables) playing '60s soul/funk/rock at The Club:

    theexchangelive.ca/event-calen

    #livemusic #funk #soul #rnb #rock

  8. #Regina (2023) 🇮🇳
    A lovely wife and mother faces sudden new hardships and doubts whether she can prevail on her own and reveal the masked sources behind them.
    #GirlsWithGuns #SunainaYella #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬

  9. #Regina (2023) 🇮🇳
    A lovely wife and mother faces sudden new hardships and doubts whether she can prevail on her own and reveal the masked sources behind them.
    #GirlsWithGuns #SunainaYella #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬

  10. Great. I just got a "high water use!" notification from my city utility. It seems to think I used roughly two thousand liters of water between 1am and 8am Saturday. Other than a couple of toilet flushes in the night, there shouldn't have been anything using water in that time. I don't believe the water softener did a recharge cycle in that time.

    The icons on the meter are also blinking back and forth between "leak" and "high forward flow" and "back flow" even though the usage number isn't moving at all.

    We had work done on water pipes in our neighbourhood in the last week, resulting in sediment and lots of air in the pipes. I guess I have to contact the city to figure out if that could be making the meter go screwy.

    #water #WaterMeter #YQR #Regina #utilities

  11. Great. I just got a "high water use!" notification from my city utility. It seems to think I used roughly two thousand liters of water between 1am and 8am Saturday. Other than a couple of toilet flushes in the night, there shouldn't have been anything using water in that time. I don't believe the water softener did a recharge cycle in that time.

    The icons on the meter are also blinking back and forth between "leak" and "high forward flow" and "back flow" even though the usage number isn't moving at all.

    We had work done on water pipes in our neighbourhood in the last week, resulting in sediment and lots of air in the pipes. I guess I have to contact the city to figure out if that could be making the meter go screwy.

    #water #WaterMeter #YQR #Regina #utilities

  12. "I can't stand by while our workplaces & our values are transformed by a #provincial #government whose motivations lie somewhere b/n capricious, opportunistic & malevolent. I won't live in a #Bill137 world," said Nick Day, a #Regina #PublicSchools #teacher. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #Saskatchewan

    Hundreds of letters urge Regin...

  13. "I can't stand by while our workplaces & our values are transformed by a #provincial #government whose motivations lie somewhere b/n capricious, opportunistic & malevolent. I won't live in a #Bill137 world," said Nick Day, a #Regina #PublicSchools #teacher. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #Saskatchewan

    Hundreds of letters urge Regin...

  14. The next #Regina Repair Cafe is tomorrow! Boy, time flies. It seems like just a month ago that we did the last one.

    This one is at the Victoria Square mall. It runs from 10am to 4pm as usual. Advance bookings of repair appointments have closed, but they do take walk-ins when time and volunteers are available - I've never seen a walk-in turned away. For some reason, lots of people book appointments and then don't show up, so there's a fair bit of time freed up from that.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer. If you have electronics, small appliances, tools or "general repairs" that could use a (free!) look-at, diagnosis, and possible repair, come down and see me. That's my usual remit.

    Virtually anything else can also be looked at; there are many volunteers covering every possible category from bicycle fixes to repairing garments to tuning up guitars.

    Helping to keep stuff in the hands of people that use it, rather than it ending up in the landfill for want of a small repair, is rewarding for me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #SK #repair #fix #environment

  15. The next #Regina Repair Cafe is tomorrow! Boy, time flies. It seems like just a month ago that we did the last one.

    This one is at the Victoria Square mall. It runs from 10am to 4pm as usual. Advance bookings of repair appointments have closed, but they do take walk-ins when time and volunteers are available - I've never seen a walk-in turned away. For some reason, lots of people book appointments and then don't show up, so there's a fair bit of time freed up from that.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer. If you have electronics, small appliances, tools or "general repairs" that could use a (free!) look-at, diagnosis, and possible repair, come down and see me. That's my usual remit.

    Virtually anything else can also be looked at; there are many volunteers covering every possible category from bicycle fixes to repairing garments to tuning up guitars.

    Helping to keep stuff in the hands of people that use it, rather than it ending up in the landfill for want of a small repair, is rewarding for me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #SK #repair #fix #environment

  16. So, we had our monthly Repair Cafe (in #Regina, #SK, #Canada) on Saturday. Geez, how did almost a week go by before I got to write this up...

    At my table, there was the usual assortment of electronics and small appliances (containing electronics in most cases...). In many of those, after testing every common mechanical, electrical, and sensor failure, the problem was narrowed down to the main logic board. And every testable component on those boards tested fine, and there were no physical signs of problems (leaky caps, soot marks, etc). Almost certainly a failed microcontroller or its support circuitry.

    So frustratingly, the answer in those cases is "The board is bad, it's specific to this model (or some small number of similar models), it can't be ordered from the manufacturer and would cost too much if it could, the best you could hope for is to find someone selling one ripped out of another unit, but that one's probably being stripped for parts because the board went bad in that one, too". So off to the landfill these items will probably go.

    It's annoying. In many cases, there's an obvious design flaw that leads to these early, unfixable failures.

    Some fixes, and one interesting case. A portable dog toy thing that wouldn't take a charge at all - but probing around its logic board appeared to kick its battery-management system into life (due to the tiny current from the meter I was using) and it started charging. I hope it worked once charged.

    #RepairCafe

  17. So, we had our monthly Repair Cafe (in #Regina, #SK, #Canada) on Saturday. Geez, how did almost a week go by before I got to write this up...

    At my table, there was the usual assortment of electronics and small appliances (containing electronics in most cases...). In many of those, after testing every common mechanical, electrical, and sensor failure, the problem was narrowed down to the main logic board. And every testable component on those boards tested fine, and there were no physical signs of problems (leaky caps, soot marks, etc). Almost certainly a failed microcontroller or its support circuitry.

    So frustratingly, the answer in those cases is "The board is bad, it's specific to this model (or some small number of similar models), it can't be ordered from the manufacturer and would cost too much if it could, the best you could hope for is to find someone selling one ripped out of another unit, but that one's probably being stripped for parts because the board went bad in that one, too". So off to the landfill these items will probably go.

    It's annoying. In many cases, there's an obvious design flaw that leads to these early, unfixable failures.

    Some fixes, and one interesting case. A portable dog toy thing that wouldn't take a charge at all - but probing around its logic board appeared to kick its battery-management system into life (due to the tiny current from the meter I was using) and it started charging. I hope it worked once charged.

    #RepairCafe

  18. "Wind: W 73 gusts 98 km/h"

    And horizontal rain as a result.

    #Canada #SK #Regina #weather