Just your friendly, neighborhood, geek who loves to crochet.
It hasn’t been easy to keep. The SaskParty is dangerously underfunding it and is whittling it away. Privatization by stealth is in force hard.
We also have SaskPower, SaskEnergy, and SGI all as Crown corps. So our utilities are all decently affordable. Which is very surprising, but one nice thing to living out here. Even if I am surrounded by crazy conservatives.
There used to be public Telecom companies. They were called Crown Corporations. There is only 1 left in Canada (Saskatchewan’s SaskTel). The other provinces that had them sold them off. No surprise prices went crazy.
Should we have kept them? Yes. Are we going to get them back? No.
If you break it down on a per capita basis, there is a higher concentration of cases in AB due to their significantly lower population than ON.
Yes, this is true, but studying any antibodies at all is better than destroying them.
So these birds, that have clearly been exposed to and survived avian flu, which therefore have antibodies to said avian flu, are now being destroyed instead of studied for potential prevention measures? This seems absurd and wasteful. I agree that they should have been treated as study cases to help us find ways to vaccinate or otherwise alleviate avian flu instead of…as the cartoons so aptly showed ostriches doing…burying our heads.
I understand why the decision was made. It just feels absurdly shortsighted.
I don’t hate all Albertans if it makes you feel any better.
I think Danielle Smith and her UCP is the problem, but I know that when tensions get high, some overly broad generalizations get made because in order for Danielle to be in power there must have been at least enough people that agree with her to vote for her.
I don’t think ALL Albertans are a problem, just the ones that think like her.
Wouldn’t it be slander? Since it was verbally spoken Slander would apply. Libel is regarding written statements.
Either way, I agree with you. It was a disgraceful thing to say and should have consequences.
I haven’t needed one since I somehow managed to uninstall the new one and downgraded it to the Windows 7 version of the photo viewer, but ImageGlass looks nice!
I think you can sign up for one online, so I think you still can.
You can initiate a mail forward. It costs money (not much) but it would allow anything specifically addressed to your name at your old address to be forwarded to the new address. I’m not sure how long the strike would be, so the costs could add up over time, but hopefully it’s not too onerous for you.
This is the result of treating housing as an investment instead of a human right.
They do have to rebook, but if the alternate flights are all full, then they can’t materialize another flight out of nothing. Which is why the refund or credit is another option.
My rental prohibits the connection of EV’s to the standard outlets due to fears of fire.
It honestly makes more sense to have an “EV charge station” mandate. If people have access to chargers, the car purchases will follow. Currently I have no reason to buy an EV because I live in a rental (unable to install a charger) with the only nearby public charger being a Tesla supercharger (and I refuse to give that creep any of my money). So if I bought an EV, where would I charge it?
Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to make the switch, but having to rely on problematic public chargers that are not nearby or potentially nonfunctional makes it a dealbreaker.
The idea that the “best” product is one that we have to rely on another country to not only build, but to maintain, fix, update software/firmware…No thank you.
The Gripens that come with the knowledge transfer (and jobs creation) of building, maintaining, and fixing them ourselves? That’s a way higher value than anyone in government seems to realize.
Why would we want to rely on the country that has threatened our sovereignty for our fighters?! Is our government really that dumb?
We also need to bolster our testing. Last I heard we only check for 2 strains of Lyme disease but there is a third that we need to add to our to testing to ensure we are adequately taking care of those who are infected.
Ya, yikes indeed. Measles is no joke. It can also cause immune amnesia, which is terrifying too.
Yes, I understand that it didn’t prevent us from catching it or spreading it. It did however, reduce the length of time we were sick. Which meant that since we were her primary carers, that she wasn’t without us for as long. Since it DID reduce the length of time and severity of our illness.
As far as all of the other gripes you seem to have around Covid, yes, I agree it wasn’t handled perfectly, but since we were dealing with a completely unfamiliar disease, we were working with what information was available at the time.
I don’t deny that in hindsight things could have been done better. But we should be judging the actions based on the context of the information at the time. Can we learn from the past and do better in the future? Absolutely. But I’m not going to hold every single Liberal at fault for the decisions of Trudeau.
Your cousin’s case is a legitimate medical reason for an exemption and is why the rest of us need to maintain herd immunity by getting vaccinated. A bunch of guys I work with were refusing to get vaccinated just because they didn’t want to be told what to do. Guys like that are actively endangering the people who CAN’T get vaccinated, like your cousin. Herd immunity is critical in order to limit the spread of diseases and protect the people who can’t get vaccinated or who have other medical complications that put them at high risk.
Legitimate medical exemptions are fine. Deciding that you “just don’t want to” should come with consequences. My partner’s 87 year old mother could be killed by Covid. We have all maintained flu/Covid shots to protect her.
I work for SaskTel so make of these statements what you will.
SaskTel is not perfect. We do what we can to ensure good coverage for the people of Saskatchewan at decent prices. Unfortunately the SaskParty has been chipping away at us via underfunding and headcount mandates. This makes it much harder to keep services supported as well as they should be.
SaskTel is under attack. Quietly. Stealthily. All in an attempt to prove that it would be better to sell to private interest. If anyone else is here from SK, please don’t vote SaskParty. They are quietly killing our crown corps (SGI, SaskPower, and SaskEnergy too).