Fire destroys iconic grain elevator from TV show Corner Gas https://t.co/N6nWCPsVoe — CBC Saskatchewan (@CBCSask) November 5, 2021
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Thanksgiving Sadness
My Mum passed away in the early morning of Thanksgiving this year. She’s being missed by all who cared for her, and nearly everyone who met her cared for her because she was a lovely person. I didn’t know what to put on my blog about this. I’ve been braced
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Moe’s Killing People
“Minister Merriman, like Premier Moe, seems incapable of either hindsight or foresight. Our government must understand that a combination of strategies is required, rather than relying on vaccination alone.” Sask.'s political leaders are responsible for unnecessary suffering and death https://t.co/h2pulIj9BI — CBC Saskatchewan (@CBCSask) October 4, 2021 Moe has acted
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Cut What?
Bernie Sanders has spent the past several MONTHS asking publicly (and privately?) what other Senators want to cut Neither the media nor the Senators themselves have an answer, but the press continues to ask BERNIE when he will be doing the cutting!! WHAT!https://t.co/dRzQRDAoYD pic.twitter.com/FurJRZk3SU — Brett "Unions 2021" Banditelli (@banditelli)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Abandoned by Sask Party
Saskatchewan is a sad place to be right now, while the Premier is off on a second job farming when not golfing, a Cabinet Minister was on vacation in the USA, and the Health Min hasn't been seen since he berated reporters for covering the crisis.#COVID19SK https://t.co/FWE4iAoxFX — Saskboy from
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: It’s Election Day
Glob help us.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Oh No, Not Again
The election in Canada is on Monday, and the Conservatives are annoyed that HarperCon Kenney is trying to stop his province’s healthcare system from burning down completely by then. A CPC candidate texted me during the announcement and said "Does the premier not understand the position this puts us in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Friendly Fire
Or war crime? Our report from last night on the awful ISIS attack outside Kabul airport as families still search Kabul's morgues for their loved ones.. Many we spoke to, including eyewitnesses, said significant numbers of those killed were shot dead by US forces in the panic after the blast
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Was Hoping Not To Do More Of These
Moe’s ending of restrictions and having the Roughriders hold super-spreader events has put the province into a pickle. School hasn’t even re-opened yet, and the numbers are already approaching the terrible ones after school open last year, and Delta variant is more contagious. Parents who care about their kids are
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Biggest Political News of the Day
We are having a baby!!!! @gurkirankaur_ and I are so excited for this new adventure! pic.twitter.com/ULyw8EfQnO — Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) August 12, 2021 Congrats to Jagmeet Singh and his wife. Oh, and there’s an expected election call for Sept. 20th. Twitter Top Trends, (not edited):"Is it safe? What's the ballot
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Fourth Wave
When I hear “Fourth Wave”, I’d rather be talking about feminism. Instead, the fourth COVID-19 wave is hitting Saskatchewan, and smart people are bracing, while fatigued and other people are resigned to let the latest wave led by the Delta variant just wash over them instead. Many are depending on
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: How Do You Talk About The Actual End of the World?
With poetry You can write About the end Just as with the Copernican revolution, or the establishment of modern democratic states, or the idea of equality between men and women, the stories of landmark moments and decisive victories can overshadow the slower pace of cultural adaptation. On fundamental issues of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Climate Criminals Have Names
The climate criminals in the US Government have names, listed off by an Exxon lobbyist, but still they aren’t being held to account. The world we live on is burning. Regina frequently has a red Sun in the sky from thick forest fire smoke, making us look more smoggy than
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: How Secure Is Your Phone?
Your phone’s security is probably not too bad, aside from it being a tracking device. And especially when someone buys state-sponsored spyware to attack you and your network: It's been four years since NSO's assurances that it only sold spying tools to democratic states to hunt terrorists were revealed as
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Sask Party Breaks Federal Election Law
The despicable election attack ads the SaskParty Saskatchewan Government ran to help the federal Conservative Party circumvent federal election spending limits, were not legal. Further, the SaskParty is partly funded by oil and gas companies, money that cannot legally be accepted by the Conservative Party as it would be considered
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: No Truth
Manitoba’s new Minister really put his foot in his mouth. The leader of the Official Opposition put him in his place. Here's the exchange between @WabKinew and Dr. Alan Lagimodiere, the new Indigenous Reconciliation and Northern Relations minister. pic.twitter.com/qV87piRT7E — elishadacey (@elishadacey) July 15, 2021 Why are Canadian Conservatives like
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Why Is The SaskParty Lying About Well Cleanups?
Here’s the scale of the problem: "Remediation of thousands of orphaned oil&gas wells and the eventual “clean-up” of the oilsands mines& tailings ponds -estimated by the Alberta Energy Regulator to be as high as $260B or equivalent to all of the royalty revenue paid by the industry to Alberta from
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: SaskPower’s War On Solar
Today the utility described the home generation of 16MW of solar and wind power as "insignificant." The clear message: solar and solar customers are a problem to be managed. Not an opportunity. 3/3 #RenewableElectricity #skpoli — David Kyle (@DavidKyleSK) June 25, 2021 SaskPower told me last decade that their Y2K
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Cost Of A Child’s Coffin In Canada
I used to know how much a child’s casket cost because we had to fund raise so often for burials. https://t.co/OTh4zStsLy — Cindy Blackstock (@cblackst) June 1, 2021 “There Are Many Others”: 215 Bodies Found at Canadian Residential School for Indigenous Children | Democracy Now! https://t.co/yx7fyIdl5r — Cindy Blackstock (@cblackst)
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