Thursday, September 26, 2013

Good For You...

UPDATE: And to top it all off, there's news this morning that Saskatchewan's population has reached a record 1,100,000. Wow!  See what can happen when you kick the socialists out?  We have a ways to go to best Alberta, though.
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...Regina

Although I had no skin in this game, I was watching, reading, listening, and generally shaking my head in disbelief.

What really pissed me off, was the advertizing spots produced by CUPE, against the private-public partner ship.   (No vested interest there, of course.) They were littered with stale old lefty-speak about the evils of private enterprise.

Not only that but they featured people that did not even live in Regina, and who, to the best of my knowledge have never lived in Regina, including one from my home town.

I suspect (hope) that means our two major cities are no longer swayed by brain-dead leftardish ideology and their sleazy tactics. Being university towns, they have traditionally been dominated by left wing zealotry. Perhaps that is finally dead. (Fingers crossed. Knocking on wood.)

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3 Comments:

Blogger Canuckguy said...

Wow, it struck me how much empty space there is in your province at 4.8 people/sq.mile compared to my little province of NB at 26.6 people/sq. mile. I thought we here had a lot of empty space.

September 28, 2013 10:43 am  
Blogger Louise said...

Yup. The rural areas have almost been deserted.

About half of our population lives in Regina and Saskatoon. A good portion live in the smaller cities, like Moose Jaw and Prince Albert, Yorkton, Swift Current (which we affectionately call Speedy Creek), Estevan (oil country) and the Battlefords.

The baby-boom left home and lived in the cities (or in Alberta) where the jobs were and never came back (until they retired), which is part of the current population boom.

About the same time the Pill became legal and available, so big farm families came to an abrupt stop.

Also, over the years, farms had to get much bigger to be viable, and they also became highly mechanized. Didn't need all those boys down on the farm to keep the place running.

I read somewhere recently the average size of a farm now is about 1700 acres. A wee bit bigger than the homesteads, which were 160 acres.

So the rural population is just a shadow of what it used to be.

And we really do have wide open, flat space here, which I like.

I get really claustrophobic in the mountains, in the forest, or even in the rolling hills sort of countryside, which is something I discovered when I lived briefly in Ontario. (I met a woman there who told me she felt the sky would fall on her if it we're for the rolling hills. Kinda funny how landscape can mess with your mind.)

Thus ends the history/geography lesson.

September 28, 2013 12:24 pm  
Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

Eastern Pa, by contrast: millions of people in an area the size of PEI! Not too bad in the southern end of the suburban county in which I live...but I think I too prefer suburban-rural living.

September 29, 2013 1:47 pm  

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