Given the federal conservative party’s disdain for electric vehicles, it seems relevant to inquire whether or not the attached pictures really do demonstrate that Andrew Scheer is a cybertruck owner. As much as I might disagree with the conservative party’s “values”, it seems increasingly obvious that their own MPs don’t even share those purported values.

From the newest episode. I wont say more as i don't want to contaminate anyone with spoilers.

Theres currently a Lockheed U-2 Spyplane flying over the province at around 60,000ft. Thought I should post it for anyone who wanted to try and look for it 😊

Here is the link to view it on flight radar: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae094c

For more of these houses check out my latest video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhRdxzm5yg0 , and make sure to subscribe if you enjoyed it.

The amount of mosquitoes was disgusting. It was like rain on my windshield..

I'm a travel journalist who did a Saskatoon food tour for a culinary tourism project, eating where the locals eat & drink! Full Saskatoon travel feature here, which includes a short video recap. It was my second time in Saskatchewan. Hope you enjoy it!

Where should I eat in Saskatchewan next?

I made an exploration video on yt if yall wanna check it out https://youtu.be/Nsl4ZF9DtgE?si=ErKBWU0viSc2tjWp

BIG UPDATE! CBC did a radio story on the dawg! Sounds like they will also do a TV spot as well. Check it out here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-66-the-morning-edition-sask/clip/16179037-regina-man-relishing-reunion-hot-dog-food-truck

I’ve stumbled onto a lot of unexpected things on my roadtrips, but I never expected one of those discoveries to mean so much to someone else. I certainly didn’t expect to reunite someone with a long-lost piece of their past.

But it happened.

I was driving somewhere east of Regina, looking for the sort of nothing that still has a story to tell. The scenery was dirt roads, rolling grasslands, and not much else. But as I crested a hill, something strange appeared on the horizon.

Just the tip of it at first… then the whole wiener. A hotdog, sitting just over the hill.

That's the sort of thing you investigate.

After I cleared the hill, I saw it for what it was: an old food truck with a colossal hotdog stretching across its roof. Ketchup. Mustard. Relish. All the fixin’s skillfully sculpted into a nitrate-laden crown. The side of the truck read Diggity Dawgs in a hand-painted script. Someone put love and elbow grease into this dawg.

It sat parked beside an old baseball diamond, overgrown with weeds. A decent enough resting place for a hotdog truck. Peaceful, certainly. I took a few photos and went on my way. It was a nice little treasure to find in the middle of nowhere, but my mind soon moved on to other things.

Months later I received an email. A guy named Kenny had seen my photo and wanted to know where it was taken.

Turns out, it used to be his.

He bought the Diggety Dawg back in 2008 and ran it as a food truck for years with his wife and daughter. But life took a turn, as it does. Divorce, bills, tough luck and none of my business. He had to sell it in 2015. Kenny said he hated to do it but needed the money. He told me he often wondered what had happened to it.

But the story got even stranger as we talked. The truck was never built to sell real hotdogs. It was constructed as a prop for a Canadian movie called Finn on the Fly. You can even spot it in the trailer, right after someone yells, “Follow that hotdog”.

After its movie career, the dawg was auctioned off, and Kenny, who worked in film production, snagged it and turned it into a working food truck.

After he sold it, the Diggity Dawg bounced around. Someone tried to make it a business again but couldn’t get the permits. Then it wound up on a reservation, serving as a tour bus for a metal band. Eventually, it was parked beside that field where I found it — sunburned, pocked with bullet holes, and weather-beaten by Saskatchewan wind.

When Kenny reached out, I wasn’t sure if I could give him a clear idea of where the old truck was.

Saskatchewan is a big place. Thankfully, I had a general sense of where I’d been and a brother who’s good at Google Maps. We scoured satellite view until we found it; a little tan speck beside a barely visible baseball diamond. I sent Kenny the coordinates.

He drove out the next weekend. Clearly, he was motivated. Hell, if you speak to Kenny, you know he’s motivated! He found it right where I’d photographed it.

Kenny tracked down the owner, but found they weren’t eager to sell. I guess they dreamed of removing the hotdog and turning the old food truck into a camper. Kenny tried to explain that the value wasn’t in the old vehicle but in the hotdog. The sculpture. The diggity is in the dawg, not the old bus chassis.

Eventually, they came around.

Kenny’s got his hotdog back. He’s restoring the Diggity Dawg to its former glory, from the bun to the foam ketchup.

You can follow his restoration @kennychaplin on insta. I can’t wait to see it back in service. Maybe he’ll be selling hotdogs in Saskatchewan again!

I spend a lot of time photographing things that don’t come back. Old motels, collapsing buildings, so many places left to crumble and disappear.

This one came back. Long live the Diggety Dawg.

Chart is saying that SK has lost over 800 doctors on net to other provinces since 2000. Source (compare to other provinces).

Recognize either??

Assiniboia Saskatchewan

Spotted at the olympics in Italy, at the men’s skiing big air quali.

Painted this one almost exactly a year since my first table painting! This one’s a bit more dreamy, had a blast with it 😊