I think the context is more that this is first person Amnesty International has named as such, not the first person who could be considered more generally a prisoner of conscience.

The OP article seems to confuse this. The source article from Amnesty is more clear.

Definitely an effective way to make a political ally.

However, it’s possibly intended to be that way. Now he can tell his base that he asked the NDP to join him and they refused.

He is saying, “idk what I saw but maybe it was something,” though. He’s telling of his experience, he doesn’t say “yes, they most definitely exist”, but “I’ve experienced something that was nothing like I’d ever experienced and I know of no animal that could fit the experience I had.” Him being a very experienced bushman brings quite a bit of credibility to that statement.

He’s not challenging people on whether Saskquatch exist or not, he’s challenging whether you think the multitude of people who have had such experiences and are sharing them with others, like him, are all lying about what they’ve experienced, completely fabricating a story of something that just happens to have commonalities with stories from others across borders and generations.

I wouldn’t say he latched on. Maybe the directors commentaries provide more of that background than the actual episode, but he’d often call Todd out if he would say, matter of factly, that something was most definitely Saskquatch, and he didn’t appreciate that sort of thing when trying to make an objective, more investigative film.

At the time, I imagine Todd was one of the more available resources Les had, so at least it was somewhere to start.

Les Stroud’s (aka Survivorman) series on this is quite interesting and I think his stance on it is rather appropriate. He has no proof to confirm or deny the existence of such beings, but goes on to say that to flat out deny their existence is to call each and every one of those with stories to tell, including him, a liar.

I’d recommend anyone interested to check out his Bigfoot series. It’s all available free on youtube.

I heard a podcast with the author of this book and the conclusion was similar. He recommends no smartphone before 16. Dumb phones for simple communication can be whenever.

I haven’t read the book yet, but the podcast discussion was fairly informative. I think it was Hidden Brain’s Escaping the Matrix episode.

Here’s an article that’s probably most helpful. Looks like the stated prices are for base models.

An e-bike probably.

In seriousness, you’re not going to get a very valuable answer with such a broad question. They can be quite cheap, but have little range. Elaborating on what you’d want in an EV would help people provide better answers.

Long live Sasktel.

These fools. Taxpayers are going to have to pay both the carbon tax owed plus the legal fees for all this. But, don’t worry, the lawyers are all friends of the politicians, so we must be in good hands.

If only we could have a government with a reasonable level of competence…

A mall that’s only random clothes, shoes, and jewellery stores surrounded by an ocean of parking lot is very unattractive.

As you say, a mall with actually useful stores, like grocery, pharmacy, perhaps a restaurant or two (not chain fast food), etc, with residential units on top or very close to constitutes more of a community than a mall and is very likely to be sustainable versus the former.

It starts early in the design process. But at that stage, it would be best to pause installation, have a mechanical engineer do the mechanical design (including equipment selection) based on an energy model and install the recommended equipment.

I work in building science. It’s obscene how little actual design and quality control goes into residential homes.

The typical design is just one step above being illegal, and people are often scared off of doing anything more than that by the threat of increased cost. However, they don’t realize that they pay for it either way; either on their mortgage, or on utilities. Only one of those you can actually own in the end.

“Our Computer”

I was driving in this area on Thursday. Definitely wouldn’t recommend anything other than a truck or Subaru. Had a full inch of mud in the wheels when I got home.

And of course, as soon as you cross the MB border, nice, reasonably well maintained pavement.

Jeremy Harrison is little more than a middleschool bully, and his antics continually demonstrate that, despite him being a 46 year old man. One of my favourite is when Donna Harpauer, Finance Minister, blamed high gas prices on the Saskatchewan NDP in 2023 (yeah, try to figure that one out), and ol Jer was sitting right behind her cheering so fervently he might as well had been in a skirt waving pom poms around.

I think it’d be a stretch to call some of those provincial ‘health insurance’ programs functional in several aspects.

They’re not mega saturated, they’re overexposed, which isn’t atypical when photographing at night. Most pictures you’d see of the milky way were captured this way.

The $34.95/hr average is stated as the average for permanent positions. I doubt many of the service industry jobs are permanent positions.

Even just rent one for a day. They’re so simple and just work.