“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
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Views from the Beltline: The death graph
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. It’s true for me anyway. Maybe it’s my engineering background, but charts, graphs, etc. often make a point much more effectively for me than words. Such is the case with the death rates from COVID-19 in Canada. The number of deaths
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 readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – John Paul Tasker writes that Canada needs to push hard to increase the number of vaccinated people to prevent a fourth wave of COVID-19. An anonymous COVID ward worker in the UK expresses well-justified anger that health care workers and vulnerable people will
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: 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
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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: 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
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Needs New Leadership
An offensively dangerous COVID Denier was touring Canada spreading misinformation and hate. The Sask Government and cops welcomed him with words but no real warning. https://t.co/ocA0g4Lkyb — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) April 28, 2021 And in related news, the Health Minister is whining about how people don’t like how he
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Callous Government
Dr. Kyle, as he’s known on Twitter, wrote the Moose Jaw Independent paper. The COVID-19 Variants of Concern in the Moose Jaw area are shockingly bad, and the school division wants to open schools on Monday. They absolutely must not. Gaslighting medical people with the SHA telling Moose Jaw schools
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Anti-carbon tax Government attacks hundreds of EV owners with a new tax
Saskatchewan Government will start charging EV owners $150 a year. The Minister who removed the EV incentive almost a decade ago took his next job as Canada’s top oil and gas lobbyist. If that doesn’t scream Conflict of Interest, what does? This is an “anti-#carbontax“, as it encourages people to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Government Delays Recommended Restrictions
#ReginaCircuitbreaker now. SK Gov should be announcing tomorrow morning that people should go home tomorrow night, and stay there. But the government in this province is rife with corruption and incompetence in the political ranks, so an outside force has to push them.#YQR — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) March 23,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Macdonald and Martha Friendly examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has put even more strain on a Canadian child care system which was already under severe stress. And the Broadbent Institute offers a look at how a COVID recovery plan can help remediate
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Moe & Ford, Worst Of Both Worlds
First of all, Doug Ford is a racist, incompetent, buffoon. Ontario NDP calls on Ford to apologize after wrongly accusing Indigenous MPP of vaccine queue-jumping https://t.co/vFyIUC6LeW — CBC Indigenous (@CBCIndigenous) March 11, 2021 CTV: “Premier Doug Ford has apologized after accusing a First Nations MPP who got a vaccine in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Premier Responds, And Skips Work
A month ago I wrote the Premier, again asking him to resign due to his extreme incompetence. His response was to ignore that request and provide more examples of the same. Surprised to hear back from the Premier, but of course he included a lie about the public health measures
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: SK Gov Asks People To Watch NFL In Restaurants
Feb. 7, 2021 – emailed the Premier and my MLA. Dear Premier Moe: It’s no secret that your weak response to the pandemic has given us Canada’s most shameful second wave. Manitoba realized they were on track to be Canada’s disaster epicentre, and used an effective lockdown to return to
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