This still boggles my mind. Saskatoon should request an exemption to a large-scale free-trade agreement being negotiated between Canada and Europe, a city committee agreed. City councillors, sitting as an executive committee, voted 5-4 Monday to seek a permanent exemption to the proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, a free trade [...]
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The Junction
Sean Shaw uncovers to things about the City of Saskatoon. The first is the City is looking at redeveloping The Junction. The Junction concept plan seeks to link together major redevelopment projects in three Saskatoon core areas by recommending public realm improvements, identifying future uses for vacant/contaminated lands, increasing investor confidence, and synchronize past studies [...]
The City of Saskatoon Spending Review
Saskatoon’s city council decided to do a spending review on what to cut. One city councillor described their efforts as “courageous”. That’s not a word I would have used. After many meetings, too much debate, and questionable live tweeting, the final results are known. A paltry $1.7 million. Here are the cuts as gathered by [...]
Running for Saskatoon City Council 101
Over the last couple of weeks The StarPhoenix has been running profiles of declared candidates for Ward 3’s by-election. As I read the profile, the first thing I do is Google each candidate to find out more. Unlike other by-elections, in this one there isn’t a single website to be found which can’t be good. [...]
I’m angry at the government as well
Cosmo Industries is upset with the City of Saskatoon City Council. I am to but for totally different reasons. Saskatoon doesn’t have a minor league ball team, the Riders don’t hold their training camp in Saskatoon anymore, there is a massive pothole on a street I drive to work on. The list goes on. Cosmo’s [...]
The Weir as a Power Station
Saskatoon has decided not to fund a feasibility study on turning the weir into a small hydro power project. The major question now is how much power could be produced annually, Hudson said. A B.C.-based consultant calculated in an initial report -via computer modelling -that the hydropower station could pay for construction costs in 12 [...]
Big City Growth, Big City Pigeon Mafia
At Monday’s Saskatoon City Council meeting, there was an animated discussion about pigeons in the city and the fees for a pigeon loft. While all of Saskatoon was riveted by the twists and turns of the pigeon debate, I am afraid that Saskatoon is ignoring the potential problems of big city pigeoneerings, the pigeon mafia. [...]
Tall Wind Turbine
In my regular e-mail from City Councilor Darren Hill, he mentions this Tall Wind Turbine — City Council approved a report from Administration that a consultant be hired to conduct a wind resource and environmental assessment for a tall wind turbine to be developed at the Landfill. This assessment is the next step in exploring [...]
