An article in the Leader Post October 23rd, 2008, claims “Saskatoon replaces Regina as Canada’s murder capital” Well … all the way back on June 17, 2008, thebench.ca had already broken the same story, with a comment claiming “Congrats Saskatoon for stealing Regina’s title to tie as ‘Murder Capital of Canada’!” this was based on [...]
“Wall says the plan is still being developed, but a levy would be like a tax on emissions that Alberta implemented last year for refineries and other major industrial plants.” “like a tax on emissions”? Sounds like a carbon tax to us. Isn’t this why we weren’t supposed to like the Liberals? http://www.oilweek.com/news.asp?ID=19226
“For the first time in Saskatchewan, official information about the quality of hospital care has been posted on the internet. The data, collected by the province’s Health Quality Council, covers a range of performance measures, from the cleanliness of washrooms to noises at night. Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital scored poorly in both those categories” From [...]
Ralph Goodale should run for the Liberal leadership. He is well respected, from Regina so gives instant credibility and voice to western Canada, was former finance minister with a boom during the last US economic down turn – so gives instant credibility on the economy, and is a strong, well spoken leader (more so than Dion, [...]
Neat link http://news.sympatico.msn.ca/Election_08/results find your riding
Saskatoon Median House Prices Continue Downward Trend As would be expected with continued slow local sales, falling oil prices, falling Potash Corp stocks the worst on the TSX and predictions of a Canadian wide housing correction, Saskatoon’s median house price has been progressively falling each month since June. The median is a better measure of [...]
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081014/election2008_election_main_081014/20081015?s_name=election2008 The Conservatives added moderately to their minority government, winning 143 seats in the October 14th federal election, 12 short of a majority. Still, in many ways it was surprising they were able to obtain this, despite Harper denying the economy was in trouble, days before the biggest drop on the TSX in history, then [...]
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/10/02/potash-under-attack-from-short-sellers-yeah-right/ “David Wolf, an economist at Merrill Lynch pointed out in an April report, there is more than 300 years worth of potash buried underground waiting to be dug up. The reason the supply has been so restricted in recent decades is because the mineral was such a dud that companies saw no reason to [...]
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/10/02/english-debate-night.html