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
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Saskboy'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)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Vaccinations And Premature[?] ReOpenings Proceeding
A new visual to show Saskatchewan's vaccination disparity by gender. Since data is released weekly I've stacked each week's release on top of the other to show the accumulation. Notice how 18-29 men out-vaccinated the women last week, the 30-39m>w last 2 weeks & 40-49m>w last 3. pic.twitter.com/QizTASQIY6 — Kyle
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: “Isn’t Who We Are”
A Radio Ad Running in Saskatchewan Says Residential School Trauma Is a Myth, & I'm Pretty Sure No One's Noticed, Nevermind Concerned? https://t.co/rR813u866c — Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert) September 23, 2018 Why are there Canadians willing to deny the Residential School system was a genocide perpetrated against Indigenous people of Canada?
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Hundreds of Kids Found Dead In Unmarked Graves
A normal country would declare several days of mourning after a mass grave of children was discovered. — Nora Loreto (@NoLore) May 29, 2021 Canada is a normal settler-colonial country with a dark history of genocide against Indigenous peoples Canada is still fighting Kamloops residential schools survivors, and their descendants,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Why WHO Didn’t Clear The Air
There are many examples of leading scientists being shouted down by their peers for daring to propose a new theory, and after presenting evidence, supporting that theory, they’re still shouted down, or worse. The doctor who first realized that the germs on dead people were being spread to pregnant women
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Cons Spin The Blame Bottle — Lands On Selves
You read this PPE shame before on my blog, but it was brought up in a mailing by local Conservative MP M. Kram. “Never-Ending Blunders – Tons of PPE from National Stockpile destroyed” Now, here are the facts: “CBC News reported Wednesday that last year (2019), the government of Canada threw out
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Close The Schools Already!
It’s been obvious since last Summer that indoor transmission is a risk because the virus is airborne. Would you go into a room with someone who has measles or TB? Not effing likely. Why? Because you wouldn’t want to trust that they and you are wearing your masks perfectly. So
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Latest in #SaveSTC
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release, April 28, 2021 Canadian Transportation Agency rules favourably in decision In a precedent making decision in Canada, the Canadian Transportation Agency ruled against “Rider Express”. Saskatchewan’s disability community applauds this decision to remove a discriminatory practice. The Sask Party had promised that the private sector
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