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  3. Yes it’s Trumps fault – they are outraged at his tweets . Really. There is apparently a significant number of people so stupid we can only pray they are not adding to the gene pool. Some of them read the national news . And oh yes Prince Harry is breaking bread to end the day of Ramdingdong . Really .

  4. Today, I was sitting in a small town cafe in SW Sask, sipping on an ice cold Coca-Cola and enjoying a soft ice cream when one of my NDP friends started to berate me about the provincial deficit and how Brad Wall and the Sask. Party recently took a mean plunge in the polls.
    I won’t argue that dropping to 40% VS the NDP at 49% was a surprise for many of us who were the original members of the SP.
    ”Is a 1.2 billion dollar deficit really all that detrimental for a province with 1.1 million people and the second largest energy reserves in Canada?” I asked. (By then, two other guys had joined the conversation.)
    Then we got on the topic of Crown Corporations. It had completely slipped my mind that back in 2003, under the SP leadership of Elwin Hermanson, we lost the election by 2 seats. That led to the resignation of Mr. Hermanson. So what caused the loss, and what led the NDP to victory?? My don’t we read this paragraph slowly, and perhaps Mr. Wall will see this, and have a change of heart when it comes to selling off or terminating our Crowns. And while a lot of you may not like Wikipedia, I was working in Regina on election night 2003, (on behalf of the SP) and I know the following is true.
    ”During the 2003 provincial election, the Saskatchewan Party campaigned on a platform of tax reduction and decreased government involvement in the private sector. The party won 28 seats, while the NDP won 30 seats. The party was accused of having undisclosed plans to privatize the province’s crown corporations.[7] Hermanson stated he would not sell the four major crown corporations, but would consider offers. The NDP used the ambiguity in the Saskatchewan Party’s position to turn the election into a referendum on crown corporation ownership for many voters, and won the one seat it needed to regain a majority government. Hermanson resigned as leader shortly afterward. He stated he had taken the party as far as he could, and it was time for the party to elect a new leader who could take it further.” (End of quote)
    In subsequent election campaigns, the SP and Mr. Wall stayed away from the topic of selling off crowns, and we did enjoy some remarkable results. Until the recent closure of STC, we were still tie with the NDP. And I do realize that the budget irked a lot of people.
    I think we need to look at past blunders. As far as the deficit, Mr. Devine had it up to $14 (Fourteen) billion, but that’s another story for another time.

  5. Brad Wall was right in closing the bus company. He should also be clearing the way for private alternatives. Perhaps an increased allowance for elderly people that used the bus so they can find alternatives. Perhaps negotiating with Canada Post to allow private mail carriers to transport passengers.
    Meanwhile we haven’t had bus service in decades and my SP neighbours regularly get calls from a local NDP stalwart to give her a ride to town. She has lots of NDP neighbours that could give her a ride more conveniently but they don’t.

  9. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “Oops – Polar ice not receding after all”
    “In fact it may be standing at its greatest extent in at least 97 years.”
    “… new data released by NASA reveals that the Earth’s polar ice caps have not receded at all since satellite measurements began in 1979.Considering that the late 1970s marked the end of a 30-year cooling trend, the polar ice caps were quite likely more extensive at that time than they had been since at least the 1920s.”
    https://www.iceagenow.info/oops-polar-ice-not-receding/#more-21583

  14. http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL2N1II0S8?sp=true
    The drilling method harnesses the carbon dioxide produced during the extraction of oil or from power plants, and forces it back into the fields. That boosts the pressure underground and drives more oil to the surface.
    Their success could be replicated in oilfields across the United States if Congress approves the measure, which already enjoys broad bipartisan support. While the Trump administration has yet to say whether it supports the tax credit increase, the measure could also be a boon to the coal industry, which Trump wants to revitalize.
    The technique, one of several so-called enhanced oil recovery (EOR) strategies used to prolong the productive lifespan of oilfields and increase output, underpins around five percent of U.S. oil output, or about 450,000 barrels per day, according to energy consultancy Advanced Resources International.
    EOR can help firms to produce between 30 percent and 60 percent of all the oil held in a reservoir. That’s far more than the 10 percent usually recovered from initial traditional drilling, according to the Department of Energy.
    The existing credit has provided a financial lift for Occidental, Denbury Resources Inc and oil producers with ready access to the gas. Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp also use the technique on some of their oil fields. None detail their tax savings from the credit, but since the it was first offered in 2008, companies have collected at least $350 million in the credits, according to Internal Revenue Service figures.

  17. Governments everywhere are selling assets trying to deal with deficits. In the US it’s crown land. They can’t afford to manage it and it’s too valuable to own.
    Here in Canada the feds are looking at divesting themselves of airports.
    Brad Wall has probably had the riot act read to him. The money boys have told him the truth. No more money! Wynne in Ontario got the same message. So, what to do? There is only one option: quit spending. The bus company has not (even by gov’t accounting standards) turned a profit since 1979.
    Crown corps are an asset and Wall is proposing in an attempt to raise capital, a divestiture. A reasonable strategy but one diametrically opposed by the public service unions. A lot of the rural community in SK are fine with the fact that the Province owns 80 crown corps. They like big government.
    Is Wall toast? Probably. I don’t think he will be around for another run unless things turn to – very favourable.

  18. Breitbart linked this article in it’s story, so ya, they were more than happy to print a pro-conservative story without any due diligence in fact-checking. Welcome to partisan journalism.
    http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/03/thousands-of-canadian-deplorables-march-to-support-trump-and-oppose-trudeau/
    The facts remain, the march DID happen and I would NEVER had known of this Canadian demonstration if not for a foreign news agency. I bet if CBC were ever to touch this story, it would be strictly to discredit Breitbart.

  19. “Is Wall toast? Probably.”
    God help us all if your prediction is accurate. I still can’t imagine a strong reaction over axing a small, unprofitable and virtually unused crown corporation. The premier, to his credit, cannot abide deficits and if STC was responsible in part for the deficit (it was), then it had to go. Plain and simple. It’s not as if the bus company had shown any profit in recent years and had a sudden downturn. This outfit hadn’t shown a profit since 1979 for God’s sake. Other than the usual culprits in charge of the public service unions based on their own selfish agenda, I don’t think the average Saskatchewanian gives a rat’s ass about STC’s fate especially when the private sector is ready, willing and able to take up the slack.
    People have to realize that a return to NDP rule would result in an immediately imposed carbon tax, more big government meddling and the application of the brakes on our resource development sending this province back to where it was in the 70’s. What makes the whole scenario even more frightening is the fact that today’s breed of NDP politicians make Blakeney, Romanow and Calvert look centre right.

  20. Biffr. please don’t misread me. I dread NDP rule more than I dread grasshoppers, gophers, cutworms, canola beetles, smut, blight and fusarium, and all 7 in one season.
    I read you loud and clear. I guess we need to keep working at it. The Alberta election may be the turning point.

  21. Andrew McCarthy, ‘Comey was not obstructed’….
    “Take this to the bank: Over the next week, before the much-anticipated Senate testimony of former FBI director James Comey, the media-Democratic complex is going to spare no effort to convince you that the words ‘pressure’ and ‘obstruction’ are synonyms – you know, like the words ‘collusion’ and ‘crime.’ They’re not.”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448209/james-comey-president-trump-obstruction-justice-didnt-happen

  22. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Justine say, Moi am not now a KGB agent; nor, have Moi ever been a KGB agent.
    …-
    “‘We saw KGB agents watching her’: How Freeland’s past prepares her to forge Canada’s foreign policy future
    Matthew Fisher: Canada’s foreign minister has gone from Peace River Country farm girl to revolutionary to respected journalist and global stateswoman” (NP)
    …-
    “Chrystia Freeland’s granddad was indeed a Nazi collaborator – so much for Russian disinformation”
    “What are the sources for the information that Freeland’s grandfather worked for the Nazis?
    For starters, The Ukraine Archival Records held by the Province of Alberta. It has a whole file on Chomiak, including his own details about his days editing the newspaper Krakivski Visti. Chomiak noted he edited the paper first in Crakow (Cracow), Poland and then in Vienna. The reason he edited the paper in Vienna was because he had to flee with his Nazis colleagues as the Russians advanced into Poland. (The Russians tended to execute collaborators well as SS members).
    See archive entry below:”.
    http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation

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