The @SaskTeachersFed can’t stop obsessing about your kid’s sexuality. There used to be a word for that.
Bumped with more from @SheilaGunnReid;
Trudeau funds Fae Johnstone's hustle to attack Sask parents. Wisdom2Action has a rebrand and more money. $400K more. Queer Momentum is hiring a Sask organizer with that money to go after Scott Moe's Parent's Bill of Rights.
“Fae” Johnstone is a guy, of course.
From private communication this morning;
I have had a learning week. Vehicle stolen july 2 and just recovered July 10… my car has more evidence in it than one can imagine, but lack of police has them not interested…
Maybe I should look on Amazon for a fingerprint lifting kit..
At least I now know what they can’t lift fingerprints from. All those crime shows on TV etc are wrong..
You cannot lift prints from a can of any type of spray or vape machine or skateboard.
I am so much wiser.
…then when I told them that the car had no plates on it and that if the thieves were going to use my plates on another vehicle I wanted them to know. I was told to just go on the saskatoonpolice website and put in my file number and add that information.
I would have thought while I was speaking with them on the phone while they had my file opened they could add it in.
no.
Shared with permission.
SaskPower, Cameco and Westinghouse sign MOU on future nuclear development
With Westinghouse now 49% owned by Saskatoon-based Cameco, the prospect of “buying Saskatchewan” becomes significant.
As a side note, I’ve been expecting this sort of development ever since Cameco announced it was buying nearly half of Westinghouse. While SaskPower is currently committed to building GE-Hitachi reactors at Estevan, at least two of them, it’s quite possible subsequent reactors will be Westinghouse models. And Moe has told me several times the government is considering big, 1000 megawatt reactors.
As for the fancy curved architecture, I expect the final product will be much more utilitarian.
Premier Scott Moe came to Estevan to announce that if SaskPower builds reactors, they will be near Estevan. It’s been narrowed to two possible sites (maps in story).
Here’s the reactor portion of his speech, verbatim.
And in it, he talks about how SaskPower just might keep its coal fleet in operation until the reactors are built and operating. That would be well past the federal mandate, which Saskatchewan just might ignore.
And the premier’s social media shared the story, too.
“On the occasion of the Estevan Chamber of Commerce’ 120th anniversary banquet, Premier Scott Moe delivered news that could secure the future of the Energy City for many more decades to come.”https://t.co/aTLKLr40TH
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) May 31, 2024
The NDP just interrupted our Mother’s Day brunch to tell me that teachers ~should~ be able to keep secrets from parents.
Guess how that went over?
Moe says Estevan likely location for small modular reactors.
In the story I talk a bit about how the province and SaskPower are a bit cagey about definitively saying, “Yes, for sure, damned rights, we’re building reactors.”
But you can be sure, “Yes, for sure, damned rights, we’re building reactors.”
Did I call it, or did I call it?
Have at ‘er: SaskPower Future Supply Plan
Everyone write it 100 times on the X-board…
The news websites for the newspapers from Estevan, Weyburn, Yorkton, Canora, Battlefords, Preeceville, Outlook, Assiniboia, Carlyle, Humboldt, Moose Jaw, Unity, Wilkie and Kamsack have been sold to a radio broadcasting company. The newspapers’ offices are all up for sale, as is the building housing the last remaining printing plant for them. The newspapers are still printing, for now, but how long is anyone’s guess. Otherwise, why would the last Glacier printing plant left in Saskatchewan have its building for sale?
With Alberta going all-in on its sovereign wealth fund (posted yesterday), should Saskatchewan take another look at one of its own? We had one, but it didn’t last long, and turned into something of a slush fund for Crown corporations, apparently. I dug up this discussion paper that was written by U of R professor Stuart Wilson which is actually pretty good. I republished the entire paper, with his permission, on Pipeline Online.
Perhaps ironically, Norway’s massive sovereign wealth fund was originally modelled on Alberta’s. And that fund is now worth US$1.42 trillion dollars (with a “t”). (Norway has less oil than Alberta).
Danielle Smith goes all-in on revitalized sovereign wealth fund for Alberta. Saskatchewan had one, once, but that was 32 years ago. Details in story.
Quick Dick McDick: Climate Cult Megaspecial You gotta be $#!++!\ me
He even references “climate cult,” my favourite SDA category!
CJME/CKOM radio host Evan Bray visits the Estevan coal mine, and much learning ensues
Four of the Saskatchewan Party’s most experienced cabinet ministers are not seeking re-election.
This Saskatchewan teachers strike is about something no one wants to say openly.
Passing kids who should have failed, mainstreaming everyone, overcrowding and not enough ESL are all part of “classroom complexity.” But we’ve had ample warning this was going to happen, from a guy I’ve known for 30 years. He wrote a book about this in 2010.
Believe it or not, I used to write opinion columns for 28 years on everything under the sun before launching Pipeline Online. And this teachers strike in Saskatchewan got under my skin enough that I had to write about it.
And this is a sweet one.
January 16, 2023: Trudeau snubs Moe at Saskatoon photo-op
On Monday, Trudeau and Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark toured the Vital Metals facility in Saskatoon, speaking with workers and getting an inside look at the process. […] Moe released a statement earlier in the day saying his Saskatchewan Party government was not aware of the prime minister’s visit to the facility.
January 18, 2024: Saskatoon’s Vital Metals liquidates assets amid bankruptcy
Degagne [McDougall’s Auction] said most of the equipment for auction was brand new and sold for pennies on the dollar. Successful bidders have until the end of January to claim their purchases.
Know your Saskatchewan winterfront regulations.
UPDATED: For seven days in a row, SaskPower saw wind generation hit zero for part of the day
The story originally said five days. SaskPower got back to me and noted the streak continued Jan. 7 and 8 as well. So that’s a whole week with wind flatlining. Total, complete flatline for part of the day, each day. How do you power the hospital my wife is an ER nurse at with zero power? Inquiring minds would like to know?
Also:
Weaker oil prices should bring some relief to consumers in 2024: Analysts
and
Quick Dick McDick: Saskatchewan Winterfront Regulation
Bonus points for Quick Dick’s instruction on how to use the box from a Pilsner 2-4 for a winterfront. Nothing says Saskatchewan like a Pil box on your pickup
Saskatchewan’s Year in Energy: Premier Scott Moe, 2023: Part 4: Lithium, Helium, Conclusion
In the last year, two lithium companies are working on pilot projects for lithium commercialization. North American Helium increased its number of helium processing facilities from three to seven. Royal Helium, having just completed its first helium processing site in Alberta, may develop its Climax, Saskatchewan properties next.
Five years ago today, 427 trucks rolled through Estevan, protesting Trudeau’s energy policies
Five years ago on Dec. 22, 427 semis, service rigs, bed trucks, crew trucks, pickups and everything in between showed up on a spur-of-the-moment to protest the energy policies of the Canadian federal Liberal government. It took less than 48 hours, from the time the decision was made to go ahead with a truck convoy protest in Estevan, until the first truck rolled out of Bert Baxter Transport’s yard.