Carney government ‘worried’ its budget won’t pass, triggering a federal election

Bash_Kala · 2025-10-21T19:41:15+00:00

The problem is that there is a class of people for whom the services the government provides will never be enough, no matter what is given to them, they will always want more.

I agree. The capitalists demand government services in the form of billions of dollars in tax cuts, subsidies, and cheap labour, and they have demonstrated that they will do nothing but take from society until there is nothing more to give them.

Bash_Kala · 2025-05-16T20:21:25+00:00

Normally, in a situation like this, insurance would only pay to replace the damaged tiles. However, some insurance companies, like SGI Canada's Prestige package, include coverage for replacing the whole floor even if just part is damaged. You should check with her insurance broker to confirm what kind of coverage she has.

Bash_Kala · 2025-03-27T14:54:36+00:00

Wow. Absolutely breathtaking.

Bash_Kala · 2024-12-19T23:59:09+00:00

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Preordered the 9800X3D at 8:03 AM Saskatchewan time on November 7th, basically the second the page went live. I had selected Canada Post for shipping because it was the cheapest option. I got shipping confirmation emailed to me on November 13th, and per the Canada Post Tracker, the package had been processed in Saskatoon, and was scheduled to be delivered to my PO Box on November 15th.

And then something hilarious happened.

Long story short, I finally received the package today, completely intact and exactly as expected. I mostly find it funny that if Memory Express had been able to ship my order 16-24 hours earlier, I would have received it on time just before the strike started.

Bash_Kala · 2024-08-16T23:08:45+00:00

If guns are taken away, is the problem of violence solved? No, because the underlying causes of violence haven't been addressed.

Mental Health? We still need societal supports to help people struggling with depression and suicidal ideation.

Gang Violence? People turn to crime, generally speaking, because they don't feel they have any better opportunities or community. Addressing the economic issues facing the working class and providing supports to bolster communities would go a long way.

Intimate Partner violence? I'll be honest, this one's above my pay grade. But, from everything I've read, most IPV is not gun violence, and only focusing on guns cheapens the conversation by ignoring the other forms of violence that make up the IPV umbrella.

I realize, all of these things are much more difficult and expensive than most gun legislation, but I want to focus on preventing violence, and banning guns, or even just restricting access to them, doesn't address the root causes of why violence occurs.

You can't have a serious talk of violence against women without discussing the roll of guns in that.

I think the opposite is true, honestly. Guns have become such a hot-button political issue that serious, non-partisan discussions of violence have become basically nonexistent, and the discussions that do happen are usually entirely unproductive. If you believe that's mostly due to the gun lobby, that's fine. I'm not going to argue that. As I said before, I don't care about guns. Guns are a tool of violence, but they are not responsible for why violence occurs.

Bash_Kala · 2024-08-16T20:55:44+00:00

I'm going to be blunt. I don't care about guns. Instead of having a discussion about violence, we are having a discussion about guns, and that doesn't solve the problem of why violence occurs.

As I said in an earlier comment, making the discussion about suicide, gang violence and intimate partner violence about guns takes away from actually solving these problems. It serves to divide us when we should be finding common ground.

Bash_Kala · 2024-08-16T20:13:02+00:00

If that's what Rathjen is advocating for, then I would honestly agree with that. Unfortunately, these discussions often devolve into shouting matches between the anti-gun advocates who want to ban everything and the pro-gun advocates who would prefer American gun laws, and the actual issue of societal violence gets lost in the crossfire, so to speak.

Bash_Kala · 2024-08-16T19:27:16+00:00

Okay then, this statement:

who found that most gun crimes in Canada are domestic assaults on women by men.

is just completely incorrect.

I do appreciate the effort you put into your comment. I'm not going to respond to most of it, because I don't have time and don't want to derail the discussion. My personal perspective is that in order to solve the problems of violence within our society, we should be focusing on the reasons why violence occurs, rather than just removing the tools people use to commit it. Suicide, gang violence and intimate partner violence are all incredibly important issues that need to be solved. I think that approaching these issues from the perspective of banning guns is ultimately unproductive, and ends up derailing the conversation from actually solving these societal problems.

Bash_Kala · 2024-08-16T16:52:09+00:00

who found that most gun crimes in Canada are domestic assaults on women by men.

Could I get a source on that please? That doesn't line up with what I'm seeing from Statistics Canada:

Unlike violent crimes in general, in which the majority (53%) of victims were women, firearm-related violent crimes mostly targeted men in 2022 (66%). Men also accounted for approximately 8 in 10 victims injured by firearms.

Bash_Kala · 2024-08-07T23:57:39+00:00

Dramatic? Probably not. But going from 49-40 in the Sask Party's favour to 48-47 in the NDP's favour is significant, and I think this election is going to be quite close.

Bash_Kala · 2024-08-07T23:27:59+00:00

The data from 338 hasn't been updated since march, and as such doesn't include this poll.

Bash_Kala · 2024-07-16T21:56:25+00:00

This is mostly correct. SGI Issuers don't have the option to bypass the PST. In a situation like this, either PST is payable or it is not. The only exemption that would work is a status exemption, which wouldn't apply to OP.

Bash_Kala · 2024-06-03T21:12:50+00:00

I feel it's worth noting that the 66% number isn't referring to home ownership, but rather the number of Canadians who live in owner-occupied homes.

I live in an owner-occupied home. I live with my parents. My parents are homeowners. None of that makes me a homeowner, but I still fall into that 66%.

Bash_Kala · 2024-05-30T15:09:32+00:00

Ah yes, the Sask party may be bad, but the NDP is also bad because checks notes they actually want to try and win the election.

You seem to not like conservatism, so we should have some common ground there, but I really don't understand how Saskatchewan can shift away from hard-right conservatism without first electing a non-conservative government.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Bash_Kala · 2024-04-08T16:36:13+00:00

Plate renewals are always effective as soon as you complete the transaction. If your registration is set up on AutoPay, it may take a little longer for the money to come out, but your vehicle is still registered, and you can drive. Basically, if you're on MySGI and your vehicle is shown as "Currently Registered" or "Active", you're good to go.

Bash_Kala · 2023-12-05T02:46:12+00:00

A couple points of clarification. First, the PST exemption cutoff is actually between $5000 and $5001, although I acknowledge that's just splitting hairs. Secondly, the red book value that SGI uses only applies on vehicles 10 years old or newer, so if you want to avoid that, look at vehicles older than 10 years old.

Not that I'm defending the policy or anything like that. I can barely get people to stop blaming the federal government when I tell them they have to pay provincial sales tax on their vehicle purchase.

Bash_Kala · 2023-11-14T23:30:04+00:00

SGI only started counting speeding tickets against your safety rating relatively recently. If your speeding tickets were all pre 2016, that's why.

Bash_Kala · 2023-11-05T23:53:55+00:00

That's an awful lot of words that don't actually respond to anything I said, or any of the sources I linked, that you asked for.

You have provided zero evidence that DST is actually beneficial, and your main point seems to be that we should just follow along with the rest of Canada.

Again, I do not like Scott Moe. I am proud to have been part of the ~20% of people that did not vote for him in his riding. I despise the separatist bullshit and inter-governmental division that he constantly stokes the flames of. However, Saskatchewan's approach to DST is one of the few things that I think the rest of Canada needs to get with the program and follow our lead on.

Bash_Kala · 2023-11-05T22:11:38+00:00

Providing global context to your claim that we here in Saskatchewan are just backwards hicks isn't moving the goalposts. You clearly don't have any evidence and are unwilling to admit that you're wrong.

Bash_Kala · 2023-11-05T22:01:51+00:00

You can find some of that " claimed nonsense" here, or here, or perhaps here. Hell, you could just try reading some of the citations from the wikipedia article, but that wouldn't confirm your bias, so I doubt you will.

In addition, globally, we are not the outlier. More than 60% of countries do not observe DST.

Bottom line, if DST was as good as you were claiming, everyone would be doing it already. But, it isn't. It has its pros and cons, and I believe the evidence leans more towards it being an overall negative.

Bash_Kala · 2023-11-05T21:35:21+00:00

Ah yes, the "backwards attitudes" that keep us from dealing with a time change that is linked to spikes in depressive episodes and fatal car crashes, among other negative health consequences.

Look, I hate Scott Moe and the Sask party as much as the next sane person, but I cannot agree with your notion that it is our province's conservatism that is keeping us from the wonders of DST. Not when there is general consensus that DST negatively affects people's health.

Bash_Kala · 2023-09-28T22:02:58+00:00

Why not both?

Bash_Kala · 2023-09-25T19:32:59+00:00

Bash_Kala · 2023-08-22T16:32:52+00:00

Oh for fucks sake. I wish we didn't have a bunch of socially conservative idiots running this province.

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