Okay, so this is actually wild. Marcel Leclair from Northern Ontario just won the lottery for the third time. Third! We’re talking over $4 million in prizes here. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the man, truly. But you know what this makes me think about? The sheer, unadulterated *luck* of it all, and how in Saskatoon, sometimes it feels like we’re always waiting for our big win, you know?
Because Marcel Leclair is out here living his best lottery life, and meanwhile, here in Saskatoon, we're putting up barbed wire and fencing around the University Bridge to deter people from getting underneath it – costing the city a cool $256,000! That's a quarter of a million dollars just to keep people *off* our beautiful bridge. Can you imagine if we put that kind of resource into something truly innovative, something that gave us that "third lottery win" feeling? Maybe a city-wide saskatoon berry festival that rivals the Calgary Stampede? Or a properly funded cultural centre at Wanuskewin that everyone in the country knows about? It just feels like we’re always managing problems when we could be celebrating solutions, you know? We've got seven bridges, two rivers, and all this potential, and sometimes it feels like we're leaving our own lottery ticket unscratched.
Saskatoon — seven bridges, two rivers, and something happening you haven't heard about yet.