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u/DubbsBunny · 2 pointsr/saskatoon

Hmmm, gonna need some support or sources for that chief if you want me to take it seriously. Here, I'll get you started.

  • Freeland is a Harvard-educated Rhodes Scholar. Let's not make light of the quality and pedigree of her educational qualifications.
  • Freeland's journalistic career saw her working for the Financial Times (also as deputy editor and editor), The Washington Post, The Economist, The Globe and Mail (deputy editor), Thomson Reuters (managing director and editor of consumer news and editor of digital), and Reuters (global editor-at-large). Her work in these intensely dedicated positions often revolved around Russia and Eastern Europe (she was the Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times), which helped to develop her near encyclopaedic knowledge of Russian affairs—an area that is incredibly important for a foreign minister given our current global climate.
  • Speaking of her journalistic prowess...that time you faulted her for not living in Canada? She was literally travelling the world as a foreign news correspondent. You know, doing the work that provides all of the fantastic foundational experience for a Minister of Foreign Affairs.
  • Speaking of Russia, Freeland literally wrote the book on Russia's journey from communism to capitalism. Her second book on plutocracies was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize for non-fiction reporting on foreign affairs (an award described by The Economist as "The world's most important award for non-fiction").
  • Freeland served as the MP for Toronto Centre, an incredibly competitive political seat, from 2013-2015 during which she was made the Liberal Party's trade critic. During her time, she took an outspoken stance against Viktor Yanukovich's Russian-engineered puppet government, even going so far as conducting an extensive visit to Ukraine to meet with and show support for Ukrainian political opposition leaders, including the future President of Ukraine (a relationship that is still held today and is incredibly valuable considering Ukraine's recent history with Russia).
  • Fun supportive aside:

    > Edward Lucas, a former reporter for The Economist, remembers Freeland as faster and defter than any of his colleagues. “I always felt that she was laps ahead of me,” he says. “On at least two occasions, I would be interviewing someone, having worked hard to find them. Mid-conversation, their phone would go off. They’d pick up and say, ‘Ah, Chrystia. Zdarova!’” Freeland’s early success rankled established male colleagues, says Lucas.

  • Freeland was so dedicated in her support for free and fair elections in Ukraine after Russia's meddling that she was one of 13 Canadians banned from travelling to Russia by Putin himself (a distinction she publicly owned and considered an honour).
  • One of Freeland's first Cabinet duties as Trudeau's Minister of International Trade (a position she held before she was made Minister of Foreign Affairs; you seem to be mistaken that she was part of the initial Cabinet formation, as she replaced Stephane Dion in the reshuffling of 2017) was overseeing Canada's negotiations of CETA. This trade agreement between Canada and the EU, a legacy project of Harper's government and the country's "biggest trade deal since NAFTA...expected to remove tariffs on 99% of goods that pass between Canada and the European common market", was signed in 2016 in part as a result of Freeland's involvement.
  • In a show of continued support for the government of Ukraine against Russian pressure, one of Freeland's first actions after being appointed to Foreign Affairs Minister of Canada was extending Canada's 200 soldier military training mission in Ukraine until March 2019.
  • When it was reported that Canadian-made military vehicles were being used against civilian Shia populations by the Saudi Arabian military, she quickly took action to conduct internal investigations into the matter.
  • Freeland has taken an outspoken public stance against the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar.
  • Freeland took the time to raise issue with Xinjiang re-education camps and human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in China in a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister. While the result is chillier relations, I am personally all for a Foreign Minister standing up to China's silencing of one of its most glaring ongoing campaigns of human rights abuse.
  • Despite your insistence that we were "fucked" in the USMCA agreement (an agreement so similar to NAFTA that Mickey Kantor, former US Trade Representative to Bill Clinton, described as "It's really the original NAFTA"), Forbes Magazine applauded her "strong negotiating skills" as they placed her in their 2019 list of leading world leaders. Personally, I applaud her for simply neutralizing the threat presented by Donald Trump, a man who sought to chaotically reshape NAFTA, an agreement he didn't even understand, simply to put his name on it.

    Feel free to comment, rebut, or add your own thoughts to this. Let me just say this though: you come across as someone who doesn't read about things, but rather listens for someone else to tell them what to say. You don't seem interested in learning about details, nuance, or process. You seem more interested in determining winners and losers, like some child pageant mother or a drunk sports fan at a bar.

    Feel free to prove me wrong, but given your current responses I'll just say this: you can feel free to hold any opinion as strongly as you like, but unless you can prove that understand why it was made beyond just "good decision/bad decision" and without sources don't expect anyone else to take it seriously.
u/Progressive_Citizen · 3 pointsr/saskatoon

Can buy yourself a kill-o-watt meter and check things. Amazon has a pretty good one, https://www.amazon.ca/P3-P3IP4400-Electricity-Usage-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU

I went through the battle of wrangling my power bill awhile ago. What I found out was:

- Major appliances didn't use much (they do, but they aren't on 24/7 to make a difference, just an hour at most a day).

- Dryer is pretty major. Every load is a few dollars, easily.

- Washer is surprisingly nearly insignificant. Hardly uses any power in comparison to the dryer.

- TV can be a fair bit, couple hundred watts not including a sound system.

- My computer room is massive, idle my monitor + PC + everything else thats plugged in the room draws 200W minimum idle... thats ~$21 per month just sitting there, when in use can speak to near 800W. Its responsible for almost a good $40-$60 a month on my bill.

- Central Air is BY FAR the largest single use of electricity in the whole house. The thing is ~5000 watts (same as the dryer...). About half my summer power bill, or more, is solely based on that thing running. Keep in mind when it runs, the 500W furnace blower fan also has to run...

- In the winter, the furnace being on so much more still racks up the power bill. If my gaming habits (2-6hrs a day usually) get me $60 a month of my bill, the furnace blower is probably close to the same at times.

In short, its your furnace blower, AC and computer / entertainment systems. Check them with a kill-o-watt (120V at least, the 240V things just get a clip on tester for the circuit breaker).

Its hard to optimize the HVAC. If you got a programmable thermostat, have it scheduled. It is absolutely an energy drain to have the home a constant temperature even if you aren't there. Let it go hotter when you are at work in the summer before the AC kicks in, and cooler when you are at work in the summer before the heat kicks in. Saves a fair bit (~20% or more ballpark).

For what its worth, my power bill is typically around ~$90-$110 in the winter and $100-$140 in the summer (mostly thanks to the AC). Newer home, built in 2015, 2-storey, ~1300sqft.

u/Ruutzy · 2 pointsr/saskatoon

Having worked at the airport ground handling aircraft at an FBO where a lot of private jets parked we saw Gene Simmons a few times and he always seemed pretty nice. They would give us the catering they didn't use which was often really good. A lot of the celebrities would.

I guess another weird story from those times is when Steven Tyler came through and took a strange photo in the ladies restroom there that appeared in his 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You' book. It is the top left photo on page 624 and can be seen on amazon books by scrolling through here. That is here in Saskatoon.

EDIT - you have to scroll about 90% of the way down. I'm not sure if it's page 623 or 624. The only way to tell what page range you're close to is once in a while amazon removes pages from the preview and tells you with a little yellow bar 'page 622-623 is not available in preview'. The page right before the one in question has a picture of Steven drinking from a huge glass. In the picture itself he is not wearing a shirt or pants, just so you know what you're looking for...possibly NSFW (there's underwear...and other stuff).

u/smitty_shmee · 1 pointr/saskatoon

My stuff were gifts actually. That being said, I know they were acquired at Wine Kits (as its right near our place). As for bottles, I bought $120 worth of Grolsch beer and have been reusing the bottles ever since (flip-tops, super easy to reseal). So far I've only made beer from kits (pre-made wort), but I want to venture in to realm of doing it from scratch. I got this book for xmas a couple years ago, and they explain the process really simply. http://www.amazon.ca/Brooklyn-Brew-Shops-Beer-Making/dp/0307889203 They even sell 1 gallon packages with everything you need at Indigo.

u/JoeDwarf · 0 pointsr/saskatoon

The best wilderness camping in Saskatchewan is canoe tripping. Paddle all day, camp in a different spot every night, catch some of your suppers. Check out this guide.

u/wheatmonkey · 1 pointr/saskatoon

I agree with this. Keep your costs down and follow a simple plan - Canadian Couch Potato is good, also these books are helpful references for investors making their own portfolio: A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G Malkiel and Rob Carrick's Guide to What's Good, Bad and Downright Awful in Canadian Investments Today. If you don't want to bother learning even the basics, or have a small amount of money to invest, consider a robo-advisor.

u/heronmark · 1 pointr/saskatoon

You could get a leather sweat band. The kind generally used on welding helmets or hard hats.

Not sure where you'd get it. Check Gregg's or Acklands maybe.

Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Fibre-Metal-Hard-Hat-FM67-Sweatband/dp/B000VUI5GK

u/DWillms · 1 pointr/saskatoon

Also, don't most amps have a headphone jack already? I'm broke as shit and just got my first guitar, and picked up a Danelectro HoneyTone (30 bucks shipped on ebay), which has a headphone jack. It's still in the mail, but apparently they sound pretty cool for what they are.

Edit: Other good mini amps seem to be the Vox AC-1 or the Danelectro Hodad which you can also get at L&M

u/cryptowillem · 3 pointsr/saskatoon

I'm pretty sure the reason they're doing the tour now is as much because of Greg's book, The Disaster Artist, that was just released back in October.

u/yungtoasty · 5 pointsr/saskatoon

It's called economism.

As a minimum wage employee, you hold basically no bargaining power and are reliant on minimum wage increases.

u/kab0b87 · 3 pointsr/saskatoon

damnit! thats where my humping dog Usb drive i ordered went!