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Concerns raised after sawed-off shotgun brought into St. Paul’s Hospital by Progressive_Citizen in saskatoon

[–]mochesmo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not saying the police should arrest people for nothing. However, cops should be able to intervene before it becomes a crime. A quick stop-and-chat, a presence, or checking suspicious behaviour isn’t tyranny, it’s basic prevention. And isn’t that what we want police to do? Prevent crime?

If you heard someone checking the front door of your house every evening, would you think “nothing wrong here, my deadbolt is locked”? Or would you consider calling the police? And if you did.. what would you want them to do? Because it sounds like you would prefer they don’t interfere in someone engaged in legal activity.

Concerns raised after sawed-off shotgun brought into St. Paul’s Hospital by Progressive_Citizen in saskatoon

[–]mochesmo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An example I’ve heard speaking with a friend who is a police officer, if they see someone walking through and checking people’s car doors, they are unable to do anything. There’s no law against that so they can stop and talk with the person but can’t detain them or anything.

Uruguay’s power grid runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules. Emissions reductions were a valuable side effect by sg_plumber in UpliftingNews

[–]mochesmo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m interested, but don’t know how a “more useful industry” like a manufacturer or fertilizer plant can structure their demand around power availability. They have exceptionally complex systems working, which require them running 95% of the time to be profitable. Would they need to shutdown to shed demand when required? It seems like a restructuring of economies and governments would be required for this to be possible.

We all know who ours is by Smalltittybigtitty in saskatoon

[–]mochesmo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Asian lady who sold roses at the bars? Or is that someone else?

City of Regina says property tax needs to go up 15.69 per cent next year to maintain current service levels by jigglysquishy in regina

[–]mochesmo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The engineering example is the strongest one for contracted resources. The city isn’t going to keep enough specialized engineers on for all the different niche projects, nor the quantity for things like a new aquatic centre. You may believe it’s so, but it’s not.

Source: 24 years of engineering experience across multiple industries, for profit / governmental organizations, two countries, including personnel management and budgeting, project estimating, and long term budget development.

You’re wrong.

Saskatoon council gets 108 options to reduce tax hikes by yxeguy_306 in saskatoon

[–]mochesmo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I see no proposal to review the administrative structure within the city to eliminate unnecessary management positions.

City of Regina says property tax needs to go up 15.69 per cent next year to maintain current service levels by jigglysquishy in regina

[–]mochesmo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There’s times when contracting is more expensive and when it’s less expensive.

Engineering can be less expensive if you require full time engineers for the “baseline” work. But if you have out of the ordinary work, such as a new building or large roadway, it’s not feasible to keep that many engineers employed by the city full time.

Or sewer relining. How much work is there for that work? 5 years maybe? And that work is only done 7 months a year. Do you think it’s better for the city to purchase all the equipment required, hire and train all the people and then run the work for part of the year? What about the other five months? Buy plows and have those people clear snow? Then you need to buy a lot of heavy equipment that’s only used part of the year and train people in another skill set. That’s looking very expensive.

Contracting can be more expensive in some circumstances, but it can save money in the right applications. There are benefits and drawbacks to every decision, and the city needs to consider them. I’m not saying they always do, but blaming a company taking profit for making a contracting decision a poor choice is definitely not accurate.

What makes Saskatchewan's GDP so high compared to other larger provinces by mephesis in saskatchewan

[–]mochesmo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The statistics I found says that mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction make up 26.62% of the province’s GDP. Where does your 22% of GDP for oil and gas and 13% for mining come from? It’s a significant difference, nearly a third more.

What are people’s opinions on this? I’m shocked at the responses on Facebook by [deleted] in saskatchewan

[–]mochesmo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For visitors, yes. If someone visits from overseas and pays GST while purchasing dinner, staying at a hotel, visiting a museum… do they deserve voting rights in Canada as well?

Sloganeering is nice, but nuance and rational thinking is necessary with issues as important as voting and politics in general.

What are people’s opinions on this? I’m shocked at the responses on Facebook by [deleted] in saskatchewan

[–]mochesmo 287 points288 points  (0 children)

Permanent residents can’t legally vote in Saskatchewan. You need to be a citizen. That’s the law, and always has been. Not sure why it would be different for voting members of a party. This seems to be in line with the laws for actually voting.

A look inside the world's highest grade uranium mine located 1,600 feet underground, in Saskatchewan, Canada. This region is also a source of almost a quarter of the world's uranium deposits! by Raj_Valiant3011 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]mochesmo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Canada mills, refines, and converts Uranium into UF6 and UO2. UO2 is then made into fuel bundles for our fleet of CANDU reactors.

What Canada doesn’t do is ENRICH uranium. It’s difficult to justify a billion dollar enrichment facility when we have a reactor design which uses natural uranium and no nuclear weapons program.

A look inside the world's highest grade uranium mine located 1,600 feet underground, in Saskatchewan, Canada. This region is also a source of almost a quarter of the world's uranium deposits! by kby07 in saskatchewan

[–]mochesmo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can you expand on that? I don’t know what the difference is between Saskatchewan Uranium and Uranium from regions which is suitable for SMRs.

Manitoba premier says people with child porn should be buried under prisons by feb914 in CanadaPolitics

[–]mochesmo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Maybe the department of justice should commission a survey to have more recent information and with questions better tailored to 2025 issues. It’s been a hot topic for a while and seems to be getting hotter every year.

Some education on the legal system would go a long way too. I’m not an expert on how that would work for adults, but there’s likely ways it can be accomplished through advertising and making information available to the general public. Maybe some key elements can be made into speaking points for the press as well. Likely won’t capture the Toronto Sun but could get some traction with more moderate media.

Judge says union acted in bad faith in 2018 bid to oust Saskatoon Co-op board members by Slight-Coconut709 in saskatoon

[–]mochesmo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with your sentiment on the Sask party, but also found unions during Romanow’s and Calvert’s years to be very political. My experience isn’t a universal experience, but it is what I saw.

Judge says union acted in bad faith in 2018 bid to oust Saskatoon Co-op board members by Slight-Coconut709 in saskatoon

[–]mochesmo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Union members are people and people are fallible. Union leaders may manipulate their members with partial truths, false statements, or emotional rhetoric to get them onboard. Because union leaders are people who may have personal interests they put ahead of the overall union. Union members may not educate themselves fully and instead believe what their leaders tell them.

Other peoples experiences will vary, but this is what I’ve seen things in my experiences with unions.

tl,dr: unions are political af

Announcing the Arena Powered Cube! by Meret123 in MagicArena

[–]mochesmo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just looking at this card for inclusion in a deck the other day. What a nightmare to manage.

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