36 Replies to “St. Brieux’s Revenge”

  1. I remember driving to Alberta a couple of years ago. On our way home my wife was in the passenger seat and had her eyes closed. When we hit the Sask border it woke her up. It was that noticeable.

  2. Go Nipawin GO!
    I think the problem is that the paving machines don’t have cords long enough to plug into the Nipawin Hydro electric dam.
    I regret to inform that the pavers have fallen off the grid!

  3. Thank you Kate for posting this collage as a tribute to the wonders of socialism.
    I live in St. Brieux and the economy here is booming. There are new homes going up around beautiful Lake Lenore in a new subdivision called Lake View Estates and there are many lots selling to people from Alberta, Ontario and other parts of Saskatchewan. There is another development adjacent to Lake Lenore(Lakeside Acreages) that are treed one acre lots. These development offer town water and sewer. It is the best of both world , country and lake living with all the amenities.
    The agricultural economy is looking better than it has for many years and the manufacturing companies in this area are busy and looking to expand.
    This has all happened despite the NDP. There was a concerted effort to force these companies out of the rural setting into the urban areas. This would have allowed unionization which fits the NDP agenda. This never happened in a large part due to the commitment and loyalty the shareholders have to the community and vice versa.
    The manufacturing companies and the Town of St. Brieux have faced many challenges over the years and they have prospered and can certainly stand on their own two feet.
    There is an agreement in principal to rebuild Highway 368 but only as a gravel road. It is my opinion that this was done just to shut us up until after an election. The people in this community have been very effective in drawing attention to the utter contempt that the NDP have shown to the wealth creating areas of rural Saskatchewan.
    These new NDP ads that use the ominous possibility of Saskatchewan becoming like Alberta make me laugh out loud. That is probably not the desired effect.
    Yes we are afraid of having paved drivable roads and having surgical wait times cut in half. The thought of having my property taxes and provincial income taxes being in line with Alberta makes me quake in my boots. What am I going to do with that extra 2500 a year in property taxes alone?.(I lived in Calgary from 2001-2005).
    And the real kicker would be to have the freedom to pay for potentially life saving medical testing or surgery. That possibility scares me so much I can’t sleep at night.
    I can’t wait for this election. This province is poised to boom and it would so much easier if we didn’t have one hand tied behind our backs.

  4. aw, small dead animals is again officially endorsing a party that it doesn’t really share views with! how quaint!
    see: Sask Party won’t privatize anything, won’t fire any unionized public sector workers, won’t stop the minimum wage hike, won’t stop giving First Nations settlements…
    doesn’t that mean you’re just totally out to lunch? or how do you justify it?

  6. Travelled through Sask. in 2006 and couldn’t see what all the fuss was about Sask. hwys condition on this site. Travelled through this summer and purposely took secondary roads to check them out. Could not believe the condition of the secondary highways, especially the #15 east out of Kenaston, that highway hasn’t seen an upgrade since they hung Riel, it is more a Red River cart track than a secondary highway in this country. If ever there was an example of socialism at work this must be it.(sarc/off) Even the Trans Canada west at Chaplin has more cold-patch applied than the MacKenzie highway.

  8. doan you no dat if you haff less driven you haff lez grin ‘ouse gizzes and da pipples of sudz kat chew when will have more substandardable de veld hop mint. -Borat Dion

  9. This year The premier promised to spend all the gas tax on roads, however he is cheating by paying for some 2006 roadwork in 2007 and new tenders for 2008 work to be paid in Dec 2007.The same way the budgets have been supposedly balanced.
    Alberta has been spending 5 times as much on roads and NDP {Liberal} Manitoba almost 3 times.
    Since 1992 the provincial debt has increased from 6 billion to over 11 billion in good times. http://www.taxpayer.com/pdf/Provincial_Debt_by_Province_2007.pdf
    I guarantee that the last budget which is the only one truly balanced was not followed but overspent grossly in the 4 monthes prior to the election announcement.
    Any civil servant that puts in a good days work and is productive need not worry about their job. Their work ethic provides job security.
    Mabe its time for perfomance reviews on the 132 crown corporations and subsiduaries instead of guaranteed raises as the current union contracts deem an entitlement.

  11. In or about 1990, a private firm had deemed Sasktchewan’s Highway System as one of the best in Canada, save less than 75 miles that needed resurfacing.
    Fifteen years later, our system is in shambles. Yet my NDP friends still insist that it’s all Grant Devine’s fault. What we really need to see are the books of the Dept. of Highways. In other words, how much money went into the actual (if any) repairs, and how much money went into wages and benifits. If you’ve ever watched a Sask Highways Crew for a few hours, you’ll understnad what I write about.

  13. I think it was ok4ua hauling his big ego around campaigning for the Dippers… ego’s his size are heavy.

  14. Why don’t you Flatlanders(I mean that nicely 🙂 ) just take manny,ok4ua,and the rest and send them out on a couple of quarters and let them live of the land? No subsidies,no trucks bringing in fuel,no union to wash their floors or cut their wood? Oh. And they have to build their own road into the nearest town. HEH. See how long the babies sucking off socialism’s tit last!

  16. You fart smellars out there tell us how rural Sask roads got in such bad shape if not by grain trucks?

  18. ok4ua,
    the rural roads are not in bad shape, some of them bigger and built better than the rural HIGHWAYS that are in such sad shape. The difference being that the province supposedly looks after the highways and the RM’s look after the rural roads.
    How else do you suppose grain is moved to market than by truck? turd.

  19. ok4ua thinks grain is moved in other places on rivers of chocolate with happy people smiling at every stop.
    grain trucks are light on their tires, lighter than a pickup truck with 10 residents coming from the bar with you on a saturday night ok4ua.

  20. cal2:
    your math is wrong.
    there’s no possible way ok4ua has 10 friends.
    ok, maybe he does. but are we counting his imaginary ones?

  21. cal2:
    your math is wrong.
    there’s no possible way ok4ua has 10 friends.
    ok, maybe he does. but are we counting his imaginary ones?

  22. I thing the point he is trying to make is that trucks used to be used less and trains used more. With more trucks the highways get abused more. That still doesn’t explain why Alberta is sooo much better. Don’t they use trucks in Alberta too?

  24. Great commercial! I was wondering when, and if, the Sask Party would bring up the subject of rural highways. It was a given the NDP weren’t going to say anything about it. I look forward to watching Lorne and his boot licking hacks squirming over this one.

  25. ok4ua,
    “It’s big semi grain trucks that did all the damage.”
    You are partially right, but if you made this comment thinking that you were defending the CCF/NDP you have got to be the dumbest person alive. It was the NDP who introduced the ‘King B” that could haul 73500kg rather than just 62500 kgs! The NDP are also the ones that allowed the Co-op to haul a loaded 53’ reefer van behind a fully loaded set of king b’s hauling fuel for a combined weight of over 100,000 kgs!
    Honestly, just how stupid are you?

  26. Lets look at the facts. The NDP accuse the Sask. party of doing certain things if(when) they form government. The NDP fired all top people in the Dept. of Education when Romanow took office. The financial well being of First Nations people have not improved under 30 years of NDP government. The NDP scrapped the building of a Candu 3 nuclear reactor. This reactor was to be built by Atomic Energy Canada. The stupid unions followed their NDP leaders advice and screwed themselves out of 10 years of construction jobs and countless service contracts over the years. By the way Sask. Power is the biggest greenhouse gas polluter by capita in Canada.
    You NDP people are just plain stupid.

  27. Manny those farmers are producers. They have a real occupation and contribute to the economy. What do you contribute?
    They feed a lots of paperpushers and without them your family wouldn’t exist!

  29. Who pays you manny, is it the taxpayers? The farmers pay by far the highest portion of the school tax per capita, maintain the best roads we have from their municipal taxes, and are responsible for close to 75% of the economy directly and indirectly even though your great leader says only 6% of the economy is agriculture!

  30. (Reply to ok4ua)
    Some day when you wake up in the morning and find your fridge empty, you might want want to contemplate on your thoughtless words. How do you suppose the food gets your plate, if not by semi.
    What a Moron! If it wasn’t for agriculture in this province, the cities would have the same as what’s inside your head. Nothing!

  31. How much tax is there on an acre of city property that has houses on it? Much more than farmers pay. Your buddies in the Tories devided the province and continue to do so on this blog.

  32. Again, Scott, if agriculture is all that you say it is, why do farmers have to freeload off of my paycheck?? How do so-called conservatives, who are forever spouting off about “conservative” values, justify this egregious parasitic arrangement??
    How I earn my crust is irrelevant, suffice to say that I do earn it, and it isn’t coming from someone else’s pocket.

  33. How about saome comparisons.
    US farmers are subsidised 56% on their wheat, European farmers 74% canadian farmers 14%. Would you like to match the rest of the world?
    By the way the Canadian Wheat Board is not paid for by the taxpayers. Those bureaucrats are paid from deductions from their sales. Some farmers pay more school tax on a half section of land, with no buildings, that may not provide any income than you do on your house which is worth more.
    School tax should not be on property period, but should be income based. Oh, I forgot Calvert promised 3 years ago to address that. He must have forgotten or maybe the unions said don’t do it.
    It is pretty sad when the unions run the province, sort of like the tail wagging the dog.

  34. ok4ua and manny!
    You two are a total insult to this province. Who the hell do you think created and grew this province? It was the farmers!! They were the folks who lived in sod houses, broke the ground with horses and sweat. Without them, you would not enjoy the standard of living that you enjoy today. I am , as any Canadian Citizen would be, very offended that you would take such a cheap shop at their profession.
    By the way, your Unions shut dow the mill in PA.
    Don’t believe me? Give George Weyerhauser a call in Tacoma Washington.

  35. Why don’t you boys try to answer the question. Given all that you think about agriculture, why should farmers be freeloading off of my paycheck? And don’t feed me the US, European Union canard. Last time I looked, SK wasn’t a nation state, or a union of nation states.

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