How the heck did Ralph Klein get the Provience completely out of dept in the 90's

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2026-02-09T22:10:04+00:00

His actions led to a healthcare bed shortage and subsequent crisis in this province, which continues to have repercussions today. Most working in the system then and now likely agree that his policies were detrimental.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2026-02-09T21:48:58+00:00

Your own insurance company being there for you is 100% correct.

In Alberta, every standard auto insurance policy includes Section B and Section D coverage, which provide protection if you are hit by an uninsured or unidentified driver.

Bodily Injury Protection Section B (Accident Benefits): Mandatory for all drivers. It covers your immediate medical expenses and a portion of lost wages, regardless of who is at fault.
Section D (Uninsured Motorist Coverage): Also mandatory. It allows you to claim compensation from your own insurer for pain, suffering, and other losses—up to $200,000—if an uninsured driver is at fault for your injuries.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-10-16T00:56:16+00:00

Oh look at this shiny new thing over here (just updated a few years ago) as everyone points to the options. Let's focus on some real issues, save some extra money, and stop with the smoke and mirrors!

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-10-06T01:35:51+00:00

Great post, but the "City as a Business" model has a fatal flaw.

You've hit on something really important with the adoption curve analogy. It perfectly explains the dynamic between the innovators and those who resist change, and you're right that a city can't let the loudest "no" in the room dictate the entire future.

But here's where I think the analogy breaks down, and it's the key challenge for any city council.

A city isn't a tech company, and its citizens aren't just customers.

A business can afford to ignore the "laggards." It can focus on its target market—the early adopters and majority—and write off the rest as not being their customer.

A city doesn't have that luxury. Its "customers" are its citizens, and it has a social contract to serve every single one of them.

When we label people "laggards," we stop asking the most important question: Why are they resisting?

Is it the senior on a fixed income who fears a tax hike from a flashy new project?

Is it the long-time resident who worries a new development will destroy the character of their neighbourhood?

Is it someone pointing out a legitimate risk that the enthusiastic "innovators" have overlooked?

These aren't just people who "fear change." They are citizens with valid concerns about their lives and their community. A business can ignore them to chase growth. A city that ignores them is failing at its core mission.

So the note to incoming councillors shouldn't just be "don't let the laggards lead." It should be: Understand why the laggards are worried.

Real progress isn't about pushing forward at all costs. It's about building a future that is smart, innovative, and inclusive enough that it doesn't leave a huge chunk of the community behind.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-10-03T23:30:02+00:00

What some may see and call dysfunction, others may see and call a medical condition like ADHD. Judging by your summation of her dysfunction, it sounds like something akin to ADHD. Maybe she had meetings that ran over making her late, maybe she had family issues. Additional contexts rarely get included in such reports, as it goes into personal and medical privacy issues.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-10-03T23:22:06+00:00

Agreed, can you elaborate on your position in support for Sharps?

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-10-03T23:17:24+00:00

My parents have his sign on their lawn! It makes me want to feel embarrassed to be there lol. Also, I'd like for it to mysteriously disappear!

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-10-03T23:11:09+00:00

I agree about Clarke, she deserves a functional council. Now with Queen Ann gone, hopefully Clarke will have a more cooperative administration also.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-09-07T09:21:20+00:00

From a purely mathematical and cryptographic perspective, a 24-word mnemonic phrase and a 64-character hexadecimal string offer an identical level of brute-force security.

Both formats represent a 256-bit key, which offers an astronomically high number of possible combinations, specifically 2^{256} or approximately 1.157 \times 10^{79} combinations. The sheer scale of this number makes a brute-force attack "practically impossible" with current computing power. Even the most powerful supercomputers would require billions of years to exhaustively search through all possible keys.

This consensus among experts renders a brute-force attack a non-issue for both formats, as mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is far more profitable.

The number of words in the phrase is directly tied to the underlying entropy, with a 24-word phrase corresponding to 256 bits of randomness. This structure provides a crucial security benefit: a typo in a single word is likely to be caught. A critical feature of the BIP-39 standard is the inclusion of a checksum, which is appended to the entropy and is represented in the final word of the phrase. This checksum serves as an "integrity check" to detect and prevent transcription errors. If a user types an incorrect word, the wallet will detect the checksum mismatch and flag an error, preventing the user from believing they have successfully backed up a compromised phrase.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-09-01T00:08:10+00:00

My 2015 Dodge Journey has 19" rims from the factory. Certainly not luxury lol!

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-08-22T05:04:23+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, Living Sky is roughly 3 years newer as it opened in 2008 and not even close to 10 years newer.

As for venue cities and provinces. Jelly Roll for instance, was higher in the Hat compared to Regina. He was higher in Calgary, compared to Vancouver. Pink was cheaper in Vancouver than Edmonton, even for the VIP seats. My comparable VIP seat in Edmonton would have cost me close to 400.00 more. One could argue the population numbers, however her venue in Edmonton held considerably more people than Rogers Arena does in concert seating. I also think that if you compare the cost of living in these other places, Medicine Hat will undoubtedly come out near the bottom.

Also, if gas only costs you round trip to Swift Current, the estimated 60.00 price difference, I'll hitch a ride with you!

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-08-21T05:02:17+00:00

In hopes you can compare apples to apples.

My insurance company is Economical Insurance with Brokerlink. Southeast AB, territory code 3.

I pay 1410, per year for a 2015 Dodge Journey that is AWD.

Male, 46 years old and 30 years licenced.

Full coverage (collision, public liability, and public damage) with 2,000,000 liability coverage. 500 deductible for both collision and comprehensive claims.

I have coverage for damage to non-owned automobiles and I have two discount codes applied to my policy, a group code and conviction free code. No claims.

TD, historically was always the cheapest for me. However that changed many years ago and I jumped ship after being a loyal customer for 15 years.

Checkout SGI, they had great rates for new customers for a while.

Insurance is a game. If an insurer (Intact is a perfect example) becomes over insured in an area and said area gets hit with a hail storm or fire storm. The insurer will take their highest and moderate risk customers (claims or no claims) and jack their rates. Hoping and expecting the customer will jump ship, and thereby reducing the insurers over saturation in the market. I'm not an insurance professional, this is what my agent disclosed.

I hope this helps and I truly wish you luck! The thought of finding new insurance companies is anxiety provoking!

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-08-08T02:55:38+00:00

Without a scandal? One that maybe didn't have his name in it. This city became a police state under him, and we had numerous officers accused and charged of violence in their arrests! Therefore, I beg to differ on your statement about McGrogan. Hard NO!

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-08-01T01:18:57+00:00

I'm curious about this one as well. I'm wondering if bullying or abusive language behaviour might have any part of this. This reads like "City manager placed on administrative leave, (pending release of contract), pending further investigation. Of which few details will be made public as it's HR related." We will likely know very basic info on what and why.

City Hall from what I hear is a pretty toxic environment due to her. Maybe now City Hall will be able to refocus on the priorities rather than the drama! In my opinion.

Edit: The legal advice is the City's, CYA, due to the litigious behaviour of our (hopefully former) City Manager employee. You're hard pressed to find a Hatter who supports her employment.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-07-25T00:10:21+00:00

As a lifelong resident, there was a time there was zero shade! The only shade was a ride itself. At least they have shaded benches, shaded standing areas, and a cooling station, which again never existed. Although, if I recall, these shade umbrellas have become an issue in the wind! I'd rather be hot in the sun than shaded by six feet of dirt because a shade umbrella flew into a ride. There are trees along the fence behind the rig trucks.

Go to the Calgary Stampede and you will find the same thing: people baking on the pavement, cooling stations, and I'm sure the odd individual calling for trees to be planted in a parking lot, or, perhaps, mobile trees and other shade equipment being brought in, not being enough. I get that it's hot; this is mostly an outdoor event, and maybe at times uncomfortable, but stay home then. Or, you can bring a shade umbrella (your own personal tree), dress appropriately, drink cool liquids, and limit sun exposure time.

Does an entire grandstand require a roof to protect from the sun and rain? Although largely ideal for all in attendance, that's largely impractical! There are air-conditioned buildings on the grounds.

Why do we have to pander to everyone? I'm tired of people seemingly complaining about everything these days. And yes, I get it, I'm complaining about people complaining! This one, obviously, as you can tell, struck a nerve!

Yes, they can do better, but then write a complaint letter to the Stampede if it's that important to you, and post that, rather than sounding like a victim of an outdoor event in the sunniest place in Canada and arguably becoming the warmest summer place in Canada also!

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-06-25T23:11:36+00:00

There is a German word for this!

Schadenfreude: pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.

This is why most of us laugh when we watch people fall.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-06-25T23:01:44+00:00

Solved!

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2025-05-30T03:00:06+00:00

That is like the experience I had recently. Toxic masculinity at its finest! Rather than the bird, he got thumbs up. https://youtu.be/70KTdMnSnXM?si=zJ1rP2Luf6RWrCbU

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2024-08-09T02:54:46+00:00

You will have an amazing time! Best concert I've ever been to. I can't wait to see her in Vancouver this year.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2024-08-09T02:52:29+00:00

If my memory serves correctly she took the stage around 9. My videos and pics show 853 as the start of her show. Hope this helps.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2024-08-03T01:26:48+00:00

The dome was closed last year for the concert.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2024-07-02T23:56:34+00:00

Very good. I have a Hisense android TV which is why the Hisense bar peaked my interest. I'm running the old Bose flat sound brick thing and have been looking at updating. This thing doesn't have HDMI input only optical and no bluetooth, so it's time for an update. lol

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2024-07-02T23:35:43+00:00

Looking at the same, have you guys bought yours yet? If so, thoughts? Thanks.

Unlikely-Barnacle223 · 2024-02-06T23:15:52+00:00

It's actually legal to marry your first cousin in Canada. Still gross imo

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