While Ontario and other provinces struggle with harsh economic realities … yet refuse to shed their socialist pocket digging ways … Saskatchewan thrives. In fact, Saskatchewan has become Canada’s place for new beginnings.
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Saskatoon is a boon for tradesmen, truckers, and most blue collar workers. Tradesmen in particular will find the place a Mecca where their skills are being begged for and where the newly announced tax structure will add plenty of punch to good wages. An added bonus, is that the recent housing boom has caused Saskatoon’s many longtime residents to enter the market as sellers to capture higher prices, and the incredible glut of homes for sale has caused a temporary 27% drop in house prices.
Great picture of ‘Toon town from what I believe is five corners…I used to live about one half block from the vantage point of the picture.
Great city back then…great city now.
Hey Lloyd Fister remember why you got your name buddy, we all know you are a jack ass but must you prove your liberal mental disorder so often. Please move to San Fran where your American hating ways can be appreciated on a nightly basis.
Warning, Warning, Warning, to all those people at the center of the universe (Toronto) Do not, I repeat, Do not come out to Saskatchewan as there is no work here, (wink, wink), and by the way, we just can’t stand you people from the East. This is the truth.
Louise, I believe his name is ‘Reginald’ He’s a metal (endo?)skeleton of a stubblejumper. I clicked on your name and briefly perused your blog. Yes, stubblejumper for prairie farmers but stubblejumper also for grasshoppers.
Just slang.
The photograph shows the Broadway Bridge heading
downtown. Saskatoon is a friendly city and the women are hot. Saskatoon, however, have bad streets. The city is always digging them and it takes forever to repair them. Also downtown Saskatoon is full of street people and beggars and nobody is crazy enough to walk along our beautiful Meewasin Trail by the river at night. If you do have the courage, you should arm yourself because you will get the hell beat out of you. Lots and lots of gang activity and it is the one thing that can ruin Saskatoon….let’s see we are now the murder capital and Break-in captial of Canada. That all said it is still a great place and I said before they have the most beautiful women in Canada.
I know Brian O’Shea and he does recruit workers for Saskatoon. He is a New Brunswich boy and he tells me he is busy as old heck. I would recomment Brian if you are thinking about moving to Toon Town…his number is 306-222-8929.
sarge here sarge notices sask is kinda flat sarge wonders whod want to live where its so damn flat
“We can’t discuss Saskatchewan without at least mentioning Prince Albert”:
sarge here sarge dont care what others do to themselves but sarge dont want to discuss yer genitil piercings it aint decorous
Makes me laugh to read those of you who don’t have a sniff about this province. Please try to educate yourselves. For example, Cypress Hills interprovincial park, in the Southwest, is the highest terrain between Labrador and the Rockies. I guess it’s more important to play an online persona like a perpetually shellshocked Sarge than have a clue about what you speak of.
So, General, where is this big grasshopper? I pass through Regina maybe two or three times a year on my way to my home town. Never seen him.
If that pic is of the Broadway Bridge how come I can’t see the Bessborough Hotel off to the right? And how come the river has such a sharp bend? That’s not how I remember the view from the Five Corners. Trick photography?
…does this mean Calgary won’t be Saskatchewan’s biggest city anymore?
…does this mean when the Stamps play Sask at McMahon stadium it will be an actual home game?
…does this mean Lloydminister will actually look like a city on BOTH sides of the line?
…does this mean Pierceland will actually make it on a map?
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“Please try to educate yourselves. For example, Cypress Hills interprovincial park, in the Southwest, is the highest terrain between Labrador and the Rockies.”
…and the second highest terrain is a garbage dump for a ski hill?
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Having had the opportunity to live and work in almost every part of Canada and some of the US of A, I have to say I can always find something unique or pleasing about anyplace I’ve been. Saskatchewan is no different, photographically, there are lots of treasures there and in reality a lot more than just wheat fields. With government now trying less to be Big Brother, there is now a influx of people, money and prosperity.
So start fixing those ?^*3$%^&*#F roads already, eh.
Can we stop the transfer payments yet?
The big grasshopper made of wire/steel is located on the SW corner of College Avenue and Albert St. in Regina. I would say it is about 15-20 feet long and about 4-5 ft high.
Louise,
I believe it’s on the east side on Broad St. just across from the legislature.
I live Americans, and I am glad to see them get energy security by tapping the oil fields of Alberta and Saskabush.
I live in a city in Eastern Canada with a far lower murder rate than Saskatoon. In my part of the country, people make things and invent things. They also make important political and economic decisions. We have great universities doing world-class medical research.
Meanwhile, you people out west work as wage slaves pumping and digging stuff out of the ground. There isn’t a decent university between Toronto and Vancouver. There are no writers of any ability in the west. There are very few factories, no R&D centres, nothing really of any value to western civilization. Kind of reminds me of Saudi Arabia that way, and the Saudis take themselves far too seriously, too.
I suspect the government of my province could balance the budget if we floated on oil, ad oil was going for $150 a barrel. Looks like oil will be back down to about $40 soon. As for the potash industry, it’s about as healthy as the Saskatoon housing, with its “temporary” 27% decline in prices.
But if you really do have all this dough, maybe you can pay us back all that equalization welfare you folks have scammed over the years.
I love Americans, and I am glad to see them get energy security by tapping the oil fields of Alberta and Saskabush.
I live in a city in Eastern Canada with a far lower murder rate than Saskatoon. In my part of the country, people make things and invent things. They also make important political and economic decisions. We have great universities doing world-class medical research.
Meanwhile, you people out west work as wage slaves pumping and digging stuff out of the ground. There isn’t a decent university between Toronto and Vancouver. There are no writers of any ability in the west. There are very few factories, no R&D centres, nothing really of any value to western civilization. Kind of reminds me of Saudi Arabia that way, and the Saudis take themselves far too seriously, too.
I suspect the government of my province could balance the budget if we floated on oil, ad oil was going for $150 a barrel. Looks like oil will be back down to about $40 soon. As for the potash industry, it’s about as healthy as the Saskatoon housing, with its “temporary” 27% decline in prices.
But if you really do have all this dough, maybe you can pay us back all that equalization welfare you folks have scammed over the years.
Fabulous photo of your city. Visually, it is hard to beat a city on water with plenty of bridges. I find the names of Canadian cities to be quite evocative, unique and pleasing. Don’t change them. Moose Jaw, for pete’s sake. No way that can be improved. Saskatoon, same deal. These names are tied to the land and the culture. Thanks, by the way, for assisting with U. S. energy demand. I’d certainly prefer obtaining petroleum from Canada then some crazed despot attempting world domination.
Lloyd: Hmmm … U of S … Number One in Crop Sciences globally. Alberta … highest scoring students in Math and English in Canada along with Quebec and trading the top spot internationally with only a handful of countries. Saskatoon … home to Canada’s synchrotron. Alberta … contributing billions of dollars to equalization so that parasites elsewhere can have governement funded “arts”. University of Alberta … ranked very high in most categories on McLean’s annual ranking. Saskatchewan … the most un-harvested boreal forests in Canada, tens of thousands of untainted lakes.
And finally … offering you energy and materials security so that you can pursue the finer points of being an elitist liberal snob who thinks that being so contributes to civilization.
(all of this just for a start)
Cosmos, There are fanatics in every part of society. (We are the roughriders, after all!)
I work with a lovely person, devout Muslim, who I would trust with my life.
Posted by: wendy.g at October 26, 2008 1:07 PM
Good for you wendy. I trust him with your life too.
My company now brings in over half our revenue from Sask. It’s a trend I don’t see changing any time soon. I’d move there if my family situation would allow it.
I think you’ve overdone it with your housing boom, just the same as most of Alberta. You probably won’t suffer quite as badly as Alberta in the long haul, because you’re actually more diversified than Alberta. Your mining sector doesn’t get the credit it deserves.
The boom is over folks.
Get ready to buckle down now.
Paul @ 2:13 LOL!! Thumbs up.