So after all their complaining, the Calgary Stampeders led largely by defence (ie not Burris) found a way to win a close 96th Grey Cup over Montreal. Too bad, as Calgary complained all year about not getting recognition, threw stuff at fans, and took a lot of cheap shots and did a lot of hot [...]
“Alberta offers royalty-rate discount to stimulate new oil drilling ” Alberta is offering discounts on royalty rates to encourage drilling of new oil wells. This is bad for Saskatchewan because it both takes away Saskatchewan’s competitive advantage, and shows the Alberta government’s pessimistic out look for the oil industry in the near future. Saskatchewan will [...]
Skara, 7 PM Tuesday Nov 18 th Now a facebook group as well
“BUY THIS HOME AND INCLUDED IS A NEW 2009 DODGE CALIBER FREE!” http://saskhouses.com/Listing/detail/?listing_id=13549 That’s hilarious! Buy a home, get a car! Reminds me of 0% finance, free trips etc. that auto makers use to sell undesirable products. Seriously, this link/ad is so funny it’s worth a look!! Tough to pretend Saskatoon’s housing market is strong [...]
Perhaps the best indicator of the strength of a real estate market and cost of what’s available, Saskatoon’s housing and condo markets accelerate their down ward trend of price per square foot. While the bloated housing market seems to have stabilized, condo listings continue to grow, while condo sales are still falling. (Click the graph [...]
Part of the National Physician Survey from 2007 would suggest that Canadians living in rural communities actually receive better quality health care than those in urban centers. At least in a few key areas. Access to emergency care is one common sense area that was rated as superior in rural communities. http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/10043080/la_id/1.htm
No one but the Rogers mis-managed Toronto Blue Jays could manage to turn the best pitching staff in the majors into a non-playoff year. Now evidence they were part of an illegal collusion to not sign Barry Bonds. Why not? If he passed drug testing now a lot of ball players have done steroid in [...]
Congrats to Obama. Admittedly a bit late, but covered by all the news outlets already. Here’s his official website. http://www.barackobama.com/index.php
After the Saska”boom” median family incomes in Saskatoon still trail the rest of Alberta, Saskatchewan, by a lot!! Saskatoon $76,600 Regina $82,300 Edmonton $87,300 Calgary $90,700 So, a Saskatoon family, with house prices an average of about $50,000 more than Regina, earns about $5,700 less every year. $10,700 less a year than Edmonton, also cheaper [...]