What is…
a) A new fall-application fertilizer coming out from Viterra?
b) Environment Canada’s “high”, “normal”, and “low” temperatures for July?
c) The results of an Probe Research poll of Saskatchewan voters conducted last week?
I’ll take politics for $2000, Alex.
35 is still too high.
35 percent for the socialists? That seems very high. Nodice has put them in around the 29 percent mark for quite sometime now.
Curious.. what’s the source for this?
Todd,
Why is that every posting of information by anyone other than a neo-socialist is immediately questioned? If you had paid attention you would have seen that Kate provided a link to the Leader Post.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
is anyone going as ForLorne Calvert for halloween, or is everyone where wolf and sheep outfits?
Sorry, I missed the link. Just was asking. And I question everything, especially during an election.
Don’t just keep your fingers crossed, folks, you’ve got to get out and vote and make sure others do as well! You’ve got to make it a LANDSLIDE!!!
There no doubpt about it the left is using this eco-poppycock to wrck our economy
35 percent for the socialists?
35 percent is probability the percentage of Sask that is on the dole, gets paid to give it out, or is ordered by their union to vote NDP.
I predict the following six ridings to go green on election day:
Regina Wascana Plains
Saskatoon Greystone
Saskatoon Eastview
Yorkton
Saskatchewan Rivers
Meadow Lake
and that the Sask Party wins 34 seats.
Speaking as a door knocker for the Sask Party, I think the SP will win 40 seats. Saskatchewan has a long history of delivering landslides, remember.
“35 percent for the socialists?
35 percent is probability the percentage of Sask that is on the dole, gets paid to give it out, or is ordered by their union to vote NDP.”
Substitute “liberals” for “socialists” (same thing here), and “liberals” for NDP (same thing here), and you just described the recent Ontario Provincial Election….
JCL
This might be a little O/T but only slightly. The Swift Current Chamber usually host an all candidate forum for elections be it Federal, Provincial or Municipal. This year, probably due to time constraints on Brad Wall, they decided to have the local candidates answer to the issues via a questionnaire the answers from which would be made public.
Well, this certainly was not good enough for the local chapter of the National Farmers Union. They, or at least activist member Henry Neufeld, decided that a full candidates forum was needed so they went ahead and organized one. They set the date as Thursday Nov. 1st, 2007 at 7:15pm. Meeting to take place at the Entrepreneurial Centre. Mr. Neufeld did not bother to call Brad Wall’s campaign office to try to arrange a convenient time for Brad to be there, he simply walked into Brad’s campaign office today and handed a hand-scribbled note to the campaign manager informing him that Brad better be there.
Here we have the very political NFU along with at least one very activist member taking it upon themselves to arrange Brad Wall’s campaign schedule for him. Rather presumptuous don’t you think? By the way, don’t be surprised if Brad doesn’t show.
If I was a voter in Sask. I’d be outraged at having a choice that amounts to picking the lesser of 3 evils”
Degenerate socialism
criminal Socialism
and socialism light.
No real choice there…3 parties who believe they have a nanny role.
When people simply say enough is enough of big intrusive government…leave me the hell alone!!..get the hell out of my pockets, stop telling me what to believe and mind your damn business ( which is paving roads and paying the cops) they will value personal freedom and opportunity more than state theft, handouts and lies.
This is my main resentment of socialists….they can’t leave you alone…I have no option to opt out of their utopia and tend my own welfare…they hold my productivity hostage to their kleptocratic system.
Grok is right. Blog support yakkey yak is comforting, however,in order to win the election people must get up off their donkeys and vote. You can be certain the NDP will be haunting “old folks homes” as Tommy used to call them scaring the eldery by telling them to get out and vote NDP or they will be homeless on November 9th.
JCL,
You trying to say the NDP will pull it off? You must not live in Saskatchewan. The biggest issues that people are concerned about, longest waiting lists in the country, the highest property taxes in the country, highest crime rates in the country and the countless politicla scandals among other things,are barely even being mentioned by the NDP.
If you won’t or can’t address the issues the people are most concerned about, you will lose.
Andrew, I cannot begin to believe that what you say is going to happen in those ridings will occur. If the Greens get anywhere near the votes you say those would come from traditional NDP supporters. The effect of alot of NDP votes going green simply allows the Sask Party to come up the middle to take the seat. Therefore, no Greens will get elected. Sask Party upwards of 40 seats, one Liberal and the rest NDP.
The real question is where do those undecided and unwilling fall. I would speculate that this group will fall more towards the SP than the NDP. Why? If you are a member of a union you certainly do not want your political leanings known if you plan to vote for the SP. If my speculations are right this makes the results in this poll even more catastophic for the NDP. Expect them to pull out all the stops in the next nine days. Mediscare and Crowns for sale to the max. How many old people can you scare on Halloween?
No, not at all. We had less than 50% voter turnout, so they won with a small actual percentage of actual support. All I meant was that here in good ol’ Ontario, the near-socialist liberals won due mostly to non-voters, and the large percentage who love their “big government” hand-outs or their “big government” jobs (they actually had teachers taking time off to campaign for them)….
JCL
A-Bob: “Green” meaning Saskatchewan Party, which I should have mentioned; I was just looking at a colour coded seat chart prior to writing that.
Are you telling me that librano/dipper/moonbats outside of the province of Ontario scare seniors at old folks homes as well????? I thought that it was just an Ontario tradition. See, we do have common bonds after all. And JCL, you hit the nail right on the head. They vote to maintain the trough wallowing lifestyle that they have become accustomed to. Go get em, right wing Sk’ers!
At least Brad Wall is not trying to peddle some form of religious school system. Egads, what a friggin clusterf#$% that was!
Kingston,
Very very bad move on Tory’s part. He gave Mcguinty his nicely packaged wedge issue that allowed him to distract the voters (easily done) with an issue that is incredibly minor compared to the other problems in our province (health, education, the manufacturing sector, for a few small items…). He’s have been better off to campaign on ONE school system, or try to get Mcguinty to REALLY explain why the Catholic’s still deserve their own private schools….
But this discussion was about SK…..go SaskParty….:^))
JCL
For reference, the last provincial election resulted in Sask Party 39%, NDP 45% and Lib 14% of the popular vote. With those numbers, the Sask Party and NDP nearly split the number of elected. These poll numbers point to a landslide.
It would be interesting to see the urban/rural breakdown, as the strong SP support in the rural area would skew how many seats 50% would get you. I am quite surprised the NDP is sitting at 35%, which means they have eaten into the 20% lead from the summertime. The Liberals at only 10% doesn’t bode well for their fortunes on Nov 7th. That’s if you believe in the accuracy of one-off polls of course.
Anybody who bases their hopes or decisions on polls that are published in newspapers is delusional.
Don’t give in ti the urge to believe these things… they are crap.
How about a little reality check. The NDP claim to be the defenders of Crown Corporations. They won’t run on their record because it stinks. So, they want to scare the hell out of the voters that the Sask Party want to “SELL THE CROWNS” Really! Lets see now:
– “I don’t think you ever, ever absolutely close any doors …(possibility of selling parts of SaskEnergy) – Maynard Sonntag. Leaderpost, April 19,2001)
– “Atkinson said Tuesday it was her job to consider all options, including offers” (to privatize part of SaskEnergy) (Leader Post, December 10, 2003)
– “Crown Management Minister Pat Atkinson….appears to be admitting that the government may be considering privatizing portions of SaskEnergy.” (Leader Post, December 10, 2003)
-Comenting outside the Legislature Lautermilch said he “doesn’t have any problem with privatizing some of the Crown Corporations”. (Eldon Lautermilch, Leader Post, October 22, 1987)
-“If I was in government I would get the taxpayers’ money out of business and Crown corporations because businesses can survive and thrive without government interference if the government simply provides the right climate, a climate that encourages businesses to sieze on all opportunities and to build their own successes. – (Hansard, March 5, 1996, Buckley Belanger)
Oh, not enought for you? Read on:
– “NDP may privatize SaskEnergy a decade after protesting plan” – Leader Post, April 19, 2001
– Province refuses to rule out sale of SaskEnergy: Possible sale of shares only a scenario laid out by officials: Minister – Star Phoenix, April 19, 2001
– “Sonntag won rule out selling SaskEnergy.” – P. A. Daily Herald, April 19, 2001.
It just doesn’t matter what Brad Wall says about not selling the Crowns these idiots keep doing the fear factor when they are the wolf in sheep’s clothing. Could it be that the NDP have “A HIDDEN AGENDA”. Oh say it ain’t so! Say it ain’t so!!!
Calvert and his gang may not want to run on their record and why would they especially when the record comes back to bite you in the a$$ like this.
whatever the NDP accuses the Sask Party of maybe doing once elected is no different than what they, the NDP has done in the past
Struck our blow for democracy today. Went to the local US Post office and picked up out absentee ballot kits (arrived by registered mail) and sent off our votes to the Meadow Lake returning officer.
Can hardly wait for global warming to kick in so we don’t need to head south for the winter
If you scroll down on the link below it gives the numbers of voters in previous elections.
http://www.cbc.ca/saskvotes2007/features/features-by-the-numbers.html
general polls can be deceiving as can % of popular vote. notice how Danny Whine for Wine Williams got 69% of the vote but about 95% of the seats. he will take that as a 100% vote to stick his paw out for more money from the ROC.
the strange thing is , Ontario thinks the system is just fine and Dalton McGuinty rarely whines about the great vacuum to the east.
just a reminder that the biggest transfers per capita are embarrassingly to a conservative province and the smallest to a lieberal.
http://www.clangmann.net/2007_April_4/federal_transfers.jpg
50/35/10-shades of 1982, and we’re still paying for it.
Manny,
Ya, you’re right. We’re still paying for it because Calvert & Co. keep paying out gobs of money for things like Murdoch Carriere, Spudco, Navigata, etc. instead of paying down the debt (which the bulk of, incidentally, was racked up and kept off the books by Blakeney et. al. in the 70’s.)
SaskParty: 37 (upset special…Quennel, Nilson and Junor are toast)
NDP: 21
Liberals: 0
Greens, PCs, Potparty, etc.: 0
FINALLY !!!!!
Manny gets it……
16 years of Premiers Romanow and Calvert guiding us through agruably the best times this province has ever seen…..
And all they can manage is a paltry 4 or 5 billion paydown on the debt. Kinda makes you wonder how bad off we would be if times had not gotten good for this goverment.
NewDad, if Quennell goes down it will be to Karwacki and not Parent, sorry but the SP is a third run party in Meewasin.
wlmr. the 60% who are socialist in this country will not leave you alone. we have lost and there is no way to turn back. canadians don’t know the meaning of revolution or what one might be good for.
Old white guy:
With degenerate socialism revolution is not neccessary…as you note, the 60% majority (consumers of Nanny state goodies) cannot continue to rob the 40% minority (the productive who are robbed for the state giveaways)indefinately without economic and social system collapse….as the non productive private sector consumption of revenues grows to outpace private productivity, economic collapse is imminent. Bastait supplies many models of failed states due to socialist economic sophistry.
Ultimately the one thing which socialism/statist economics actually does redistribute equally is debt and bankruptcy.
So, the UK health system is socialist.
The Sask NDP is socialist.
The UK Health people have proposed that nurses be allowed to decide when a patient is left to die.
This system could be introduced in Sask by socialists.
If the NDP is re-elected (in spite of this poll) there is at least 35% of decided voters that some nurse could pull the plug on. Some people are too stupid to live.
Re: Polls. Looks like Calvert’s lies have finally come home to haunt him. The joke at coffee this morning was; “Were those figures metric?” (Love that one.)
“Some people are too stupid to live.” And it would appear that you’re one of them.
The only thing the Saskparty will do if elected is make the NDP look good. We will then see what a bunch of looneys do. You people on this blog are too scary!!!
I remember the days of Devine and Mulroney talk about common sense which neither of them had.
To ok4ua and Manny! I can smell fear coming from your adrenaline!! Boooooooo! Ha Ha Ha Ha!! Happy Halloween!!
To Manny and ok4u. After the election, you guys will have lottsa time on your hands. You can fly to Vancouver and walk beside Jack Layton in gay parades and “pro-hash” rallies. Hope the both of you stay there!!
I loved the comment by the NDP’s Kevin Yates in the paper this morning.
(paraphrased)
Yates: [The poll] indicates we have to work harder to earn the respect and support of the people of Saskatchewan over the next week or so.
So, let’s see. Sixteen years in power. Four terms as government. Numerous “dialogues with Saskatchewan” bus tours. Hundreds of squandered opportunities to improve the lives of its citizens.
And now they plan to “work harder”? Good grief.
Johnny Jimmy Joe Jesus: Time on my hands??? With all those conservative, freeloading farmers to subsidize, who’s gonna have free time??
The Media is pushing for change. That’s all we hear. “He who controls the media controls the vote”
An NDP supporter, Jack the Freeloader, and his Sask. Party friend, Farmer Boy were walking down the sidewalk in Regina. Farmer Boy sees a guy driving by in a Lincoln Town Car. Farmer boy says, :Wow! someday, when I can afford it, I’m gonna have me one of them fancy automobiles. Jack the Freeloader looks at him and says: “Someday, the driver of that Lincoln will run out of money, and he’ll be walking, just like we are today.” (That’s how my dad defined “socialism.”)
I don’t buy what you’re selling there ok4ua. I can’t see how a statement like that can be taken out of context let alone be completely fabricated by the media.
I would’ve expected something from Yates along the lines of “with only a week to go, we’re going to, as we have for the past number of years, continue to work hard and put our party’s platform in front of the undecided so they will see we have the better plan for their future. Our track record and experience will also play a factor in securing the undecided vote.”
But, then again, when you have no record to run on, what else would a candidate like Kevin Yates be able to say other than what he said?