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[Electric Ashlar]

Originally Posted by pappcam

Can you keep your pointless drivel out of this thread?

It wouldn't be pointless if they found ancient arrowheads or Pre-Clovis Point Spears and mastadon bones now would it.

No-one cares about your history pappy but you should consider possible relics that may be destroyed by the bypass and Coopertown.

and itz not one brick at a time,but One Ashlar at a time.(check your PM box brick)

Coopertown will enrich me.

[Electric Ashlar]

Speaking of my point...
http://thesas.ca/regina-archaeological-society/
I Love Regina!

WATCH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiFy0apPu9A


Make Your Scene Better: Jayden Pfeifer at TEDxRegina
TEDx Talks
TEDx Talks

Published on Jun 19, 2012
Jayden Pfeifer is a Regina based actor, improviser, and teacher who has appeared in numerous performances on the Regina Globe Theatre Mainstage. In his TEDxRegina talk, Jayden teaches us how the rules for improvisation can be directly applied to everyday life. This talk was filmed May 16, 2012 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*
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WATCH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiFy0apPu9A
Enjoy the Tedx Talk EA

http://thesas.ca/regina-archaeological-society/

[Cyro]

Originally Posted by Wolf13

This. My car is my other wife. I wouldn't let you touch my human wife so the same goes here.

By-law No. 6555/95
No person shall panhandle within 10 metres of:

(a) the main entrance to a bank, credit union or trust company;
(b) an automatic teller machine;
(c) a public entrance to a hospital;
(d) a bus stop; or
(e) a bus shelter

No person shall panhandle from an occupant of a motor vehicle which is:
(a)parked;
(b) stopped at a traffic control signal; or
(c) standing temporarily for the purpose of loading or unloading.

7. No person shall panhandle after sunset

Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with...
(b) a provision of.. a by-law...By-law No. 6555/95

...is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000. in the case of an individual or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

Who enforces this, personally never seen it happen, It's more than out of control in this city..

[cllew]

AFIK its up to the police to enforce but I don't think they will do anything unless there is a complaint to the non emergency # 204-986-6222.

I don't know if the complainant is expected to remain on site until the police arrive to investigate.

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by Cyro

By-law No. 6555/95

Who enforces this, personally never seen it happen, It's more than out of control in this city..

Agreed. I pass probably at least 6-10 boulevard/intersection panhandlers on my way to and from work every day.

[bomberjet]

Once in a while the police will be arresting panhandlers and Higgins and Main. Likely because someone reported a problem. Police never do anything. They'll drive right through the intersection, or stop right beside the panhandlers. There's regularly people with walkers standing on the median that's only maybe 2' wide. Hat in hand.

[cllew]

I forget the name of heating contractor but I saw when I was at parked @ Tim Horton's last week they have professionally painted on the drivers side van mirror "sorry no spare change".

[cllew]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Once in a while the police will be arresting panhandlers and Higgins and Main. Likely because someone reported a problem. Police never do anything. They'll drive right through the intersection, or stop right beside the panhandlers. There's regularly people with walkers standing on the median that's only maybe 2' wide. Hat in hand.

I think Higgins and Main gets attention because they have had a few accidents with panhandlers at that location. Was it not last summer that one or two got run over by the semi's turning there.

[Cyro]

Originally Posted by h0twired

Agreed. I pass probably at least 6-10 boulevard/intersection panhandlers on my way to and from work every day.

Dido, it's well organized, I'm not privy to the panhandlers code,but it definitely goes by shift work, who's on scene first, seniority, income per intersection so on..

[Tacheguy]

I see Melissa Martin was named the best newspaper columnist in Canada. what a talent she is..

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Tacheguy

I see Melissa Martin was named the best newspaper columnist in Canada. what a talent she is..

Agreed. She's good. I hope the FP can keep her around... no doubt the bigger media outlets will come knocking.

[windypeg]

Originally Posted by esquire

Agreed. She's good. I hope the FP can keep her around... no doubt the bigger media outlets will come knocking.

Really? Last time transit was in the news, she took a ride on a bus and then wrote an article about it as if she was doing some kind of intrepid investigative reporting. Then this week, same thing, she takes a walk through the skywalk and then writes a bunch of bloated self-important drivel about it. As if riding a damn bus or going into the skywalk is entering some dark underworld that no one knows about but she's going to expose it to the masses. She's a younger, female Gord Sinclair Jr. I don't see any substance in anything she writes, just flowery language.

Edit: a quick search confirmed my suspicion that she's actually written not one, but two separate articles where all she did was ride the damn bus and then write about how she rode the bus. No wonder people don't wanna pay for the Free press anymore.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/All-aboard-a-not-yet-broken-bus-328296141.html

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/a-silent-late-night-ride-on-a-bus-to-madness-413860623.html

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

I used the average mean temps rather than average daily maximum and minimum. I did not post November 2016 temps as November is an autumn month and I was replying to a previous comment about winter and spring. I did acknowlege that January and February were above seasonal, but overall it was a relatively average winter, in terms of temperatures, but very much "up and down". Both January and February had extended thaws which followed bitterly cold starts to each respective month.

Snow in October in faily uncommon and when it happens it usually melts quite soon after. I am quite certain that there has been no snow on the ground for Hallowe'en trick-or treating since either '95 or '96. November has been terribly unpredictable in recent years. The last two have been milder than normal, while Nov 2014, esp. the last half, was bitterly cold, and Nov 2013 was also below seasonal. First lasting snow usually arrives during the second or third week of November, sometimes a bit earlier, sometimes later, and sometimes not until December. I remember the falls being longer (like last year) in the 1970s and earlier arrivals to winter in the 80s.

You are abslutely right about May becoming colder. Except for last year, every single May since 1998 has has had average daily maxima slightly to significantly below average. May 2016 was above average though and had a unique weather event. It reached 35.2° on the 5th, which was not only a record for that date but was the hottest day of 2016 and the earliest date on the calendar that it has ever reached 35°, May 8, 1874 being the previous earliest, or May 19, 1948 if you want to use only YWG statistics (previous records were maintained at St. John's College). Yes, that snowfall on Victoria Day a few years back was very unusual. I do remember snow once in June, I believe in 1978.

Interesting observations, I also see that April and May are much drier in the past 10-15 years, we get almost no rain in those months now and beginning in mid June to early July now seems to be our wet period with wetter falls.

[blacktrojan3921]

You know, searching around the internet, I noticed that there's barely any information on who Regina's and Saskatoon's sister cities are.

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by blacktrojan3921

You know, searching around the internet, I noticed that there's barely any information on who Regina's and Saskatoon's sister cities are.

Isn't Regina's Denis... rhymes with a part of the male anatomy?

[Cyro]

Not much info but it's there..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sister_cities_in_Canada

Regina's sister city presents gift

CBC News Posted: Aug 31, 2000

The City of Regina now has a bronze statue of Confucius.
The gift was presented Thursday by the Chinese city of Jinan, Regina's sister city.
A ten woman delegation from Jinan is in Saskatchewan, this week.
Source

[cheswick]

Interesting article on a Stanford University Economist on the death of the automobile as we know it. Gist is that electrification will take over and not for green reasons but for practical ones. And it will be swift. Think digital cameras replacing film cameras.





All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years in twin ‘death spiral’ for big oil and big autos, says study that’s shocking the industries

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph | May 16, 2017

No more petrol or diesel cars, buses, or trucks will be sold anywhere in the world within eight years. The entire market for land transport will switch to electrification, leading to a collapse of oil prices and the demise of the petroleum industry as we have known it for a century.

This is the futuristic forecast by Stanford University economist Tony Seba. His report, with the deceptively bland title Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030, has gone viral in green circles and is causing spasms of anxiety in the established industries.

Full article: http://business.financialpost.com/news/t...os-says-study-that-shocking-the-industry

[drew]

I think he left out a zero from behind the 8.

Self driving vehicles replacing what we have now within 8 years is pure fantasy.

[VANRIDERFAN]

Originally Posted by drew

I think he left out a zero from behind the 8.

Self driving vehicles replacing what we have now within 8 years is pure fantasy.

Maybe he meant within the borders of Stanford University?

[optimusREIM]

Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN

Maybe he meant within the borders of Stanford University?

I'm guessing that it could be a reality for some areas. Self driving cars already exist for all intents and purposes. I'm guessing that it will take a couple decades before it really catches on as the norm but with retrofits etc it could be sooner. The whole death of the petroleum industry I suspect will take longer.