It's Climate Change I tell'ya!! IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE!!

IdRatherBeSkiing

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Saskatchewan is the home of the $2 whore. It got to the point that $2 bills werent issued in SK. It was rare to see a $2 bill in SK until the loonie came along.
I think it would be more efficient to issue the $2 bills however I think it became a social stigma if you had $2 bills in your wallet. Everybody would assume you needed them for the whorehouse. So nobody wanted them and they stopped circulating them.
 

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I think it would be more efficient to issue the $2 bills however I think it became a social stigma if you had $2 bills in your wallet. Everybody would assume you needed them for the whorehouse. So nobody wanted them and they stopped circulating them.
SK Puritans (Tommy "the Commie" Douglas) had BofC stop issuing them because the reputation.
 

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Why would they hide a whorehouse when there were dozens legally operating up and down High Street? All of SK had whorehouses back in that day. Until 1958 SK was was the 3rd most populated Province and very raunchy.

Saskatchewan is the home of the $2 whore. It got to the point that $2 bills werent issued in SK. It was rare to see a $2 bill in SK until the loonie came along.
So this explains why Regina is the only town that smells like it sounds!

I'm really loving the devolving flavour of this thread, all because I got you off on a tangent from a comment I made about great pizza at the Sportsman Tavern a stone's throw from the Lincoln Park Zoo and The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. All I had to do is make one false comment about Al Capone to get you started!

kinda awemsome if ya ask me.

Funny how it's swung back to a different aspect of climate change, and that's political climate change where the Puritan set resulted in ensuring no one ever got a $2 bill in their change! That probably didn't help the way change smelled in the city that smells like it sounds.
 
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So this explains why Regina is the only town that smells like it sounds!

I'm really loving the devolving flavour of this thread, all because I got you off on a tangent from a comment I made about great pizza at the Sportsman Tavern a stone's throw from the Lincoln Park Zoo and The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. All I had to do is make one false comment about Al Capone to get you started!

kinda awemsome if ya ask me.

Funny how it's swung back to a different aspect of climate change, and that's political climate change where the Puritan set resulted in ensuring no one ever got a $2 bill in their change! That probably didn't help the way change smelled in the city that smells like it sounds.
 

Ron in Regina

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The above is homage to the thread subject.

On the aside, my one Grandma wouldn’t spend a $2 bill, ever. If she go them as change, she put them away because a lady didn’t spend a $2 bill…ever!!! This went on for decades.

Eventually the day came when it was time to do something with these $2 bills. They carpeted their home & paid for it in $2 bills. Seriously…& my Grandma wasn’t there for the transaction. Carpeted entirely funded using $2 bills.

This wasn’t a little place either as they’d raised six boys & two girls in that home, & when enough kids left home, they removed the second story off the house, leaving just four bedrooms, atrium/library area, bathroom, huge kitchen, dinning room, monster livingroom, wash-room (not a bathroom, but a separate wash up room for clean up before coming into the house itself), etc…

This was in the ‘70’s and the total was something like $2000 or so from what I recall.
 

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We have a new one coming to B.C. We historically got fall rain we called the Pineapple Express . A couple of years ago they upgraded to the scary sounding atmospheric river . Now we are preparing for a bomb cyclone , that sounds down right apocalyptic.
 
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We have a new one coming to B.C. We historically got fall rain we called the Pineapple Express . A couple of years ago they upgraded to the scary sounding atmospheric river . Now we are preparing for a bomb cyclone , that sounds down right apocalyptic.
Makes you wonder what the harp is going on.
 

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The above is homage to the thread subject.

On the aside, my one Grandma wouldn’t spend a $2 bill, ever. If she go them as change, she put them away because a lady didn’t spend a $2 bill…ever!!! This went on for decades.

Eventually the day came when it was time to do something with these $2 bills. They carpeted their home & paid for it in $2 bills. Seriously…& my Grandma wasn’t there for the transaction. Carpeted entirely funded using $2 bills.

This wasn’t a little place either as they’d raised six boys & two girls in that home, & when enough kids left home, they removed the second story off the house, leaving just four bedrooms, atrium/library area, bathroom, huge kitchen, dinning room, monster livingroom, wash-room (not a bathroom, but a separate wash up room for clean up before coming into the house itself), etc…

This was in the ‘70’s and the total was something like $2000 or so from what I recall.
Good thing Grandma didn't make the transaction with all those $2 bills or they would have been wondering how she got them!
 
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Well, my $2 story isn't near as interesting as the previous story which was, let's face it, very intriguing. I'm going by memory here but I think I have most of the facts right. If not, you can correct me. This was a story given to me when we were posted there so it was before our time there. We were posted there in 1976.

Anyhoo, the Federal Government was talking at one time to close the Base in Shilo, MB. and if I'm not mistaken, the city of Brandon wanted it closed as well. Apparently there was too much rough housing in the bars there, yada yada (which was probably true).

Well, the Base Commander didn't take it too well because Shilo was considered to be one of the better (?) training bases. We had military from all across Europe train there so the money that was involved was substantial both to the base & the city. So to prove the point, the Base Commander (I think??) made the decision for 1 month to pay all military members in $2 bills so that when they made purchases in Brandon, (the closest city), paid their bills etc., people could plainly see just how much the Base meant to the businesses in Brandon. When the local businesses realized just how much money the military members & their families spent on various goods & services, they quickly changed their minds. The Base is still there.
 

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Well, my $2 story isn't near as interesting as the previous story which was, let's face it, very intriguing. I'm going by memory here but I think I have most of the facts right. If not, you can correct me. This was a story given to me when we were posted there so it was before our time there. We were posted there in 1976.

Anyhoo, the Federal Government was talking at one time to close the Base in Shilo, MB. and if I'm not mistaken, the city of Brandon wanted it closed as well. Apparently there was too much rough housing in the bars there, yada yada (which was probably true).

Well, the Base Commander didn't take it too well because Shilo was considered to be one of the better (?) training bases. We had military from all across Europe train there so the money that was involved was substantial both to the base & the city. So to prove the point, the Base Commander (I think??) made the decision for 1 month to pay all military members in $2 bills so that when they made purchases in Brandon, (the closest city), paid their bills etc., people could plainly see just how much the Base meant to the businesses in Brandon. When the local businesses realized just how much money the military members & their families spent on various goods & services, they quickly changed their minds. The Base is still there.
Thats not the first time the deuce was used in a tracking experiment. The steel mill in Regina did the samething.
 

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After Alberta issued an emergency alert about the possibility of rolling blackouts because of high power demands on their grid during the extreme cold, Saskatchewan fired up their coal and gas plants to provide Alberta with an extra 153 MW of electricity through the night. Sask premier Scott Moe posted, “That power will be coming from natural gas and coal-fired plants, the ones the Trudeau government is telling us to shut down (which we won’t).”
Almost (but not quite) a year ago.
Keep in mind BC is buying from Alberta because they are short on hydro..
At least site C will be coming on line sometime .
“We’re adding to that hydro system now with sites coming online and we have abundant other energy resources. And you bet we need to build more clean energy to drive our clean economy in B.C. There’s significant demand for that.”

For some perspective, the amount of power imported last year is more than two-and-a-half times what will be produced by the newly-completed $16-billion Site C Dam.
If it fills. If it does its still not enough.
Gas heating is white privelege.
New numbers show BC Hydro imported a record amount of electricity over the last 12 months.

According to documents filed with the B.C. Utilities Commission, BC Hydro imported 13,600 gigawatt hours of electricity in fiscal year 2024, at a cost of nearly $1.4 billion.

“It’s very disturbing that British Columbia’s now relying on 25 per cent of our electricity to come from outside the province,” Barry Penner with the Energy Futures Institute told Global News.

“Most of that’s from the United States. Just how we got here, I know we’ve had some low water years, but it’s also an indication we just have not been planning ahead and doing what’s really needed to keep pace with the growing demand.”

Much of the power came from the U.S. and Alberta, where it was generated by burning fossil fuels.

The Energy Futures Institute said BC Hydro needs to ramp up power production as demand is forecast to keep climbing.

However, B.C.’s new energy minister Adrian Dix said the number reflects the significant multi-year drought affecting the province.

“We have one of the world’s most significant, most important hydro systems,” he said.

“We’re adding to that hydro system now with sites coming online and we have abundant other energy resources. And you bet we need to build more clean energy to drive our clean economy in B.C. There’s significant demand for that.” Shame it can’t even meet its own demand though.
 

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Almost (but not quite) a year ago.


“We’re adding to that hydro system now with sites coming online and we have abundant other energy resources. And you bet we need to build more clean energy to drive our clean economy in B.C. There’s significant demand for that.”

For some perspective, the amount of power imported last year is more than two-and-a-half times what will be produced by the newly-completed $16-billion Site C Dam.


New numbers show BC Hydro imported a record amount of electricity over the last 12 months.

According to documents filed with the B.C. Utilities Commission, BC Hydro imported 13,600 gigawatt hours of electricity in fiscal year 2024, at a cost of nearly $1.4 billion.

“It’s very disturbing that British Columbia’s now relying on 25 per cent of our electricity to come from outside the province,” Barry Penner with the Energy Futures Institute told Global News.

“Most of that’s from the United States. Just how we got here, I know we’ve had some low water years, but it’s also an indication we just have not been planning ahead and doing what’s really needed to keep pace with the growing demand.”

Much of the power came from the U.S. and Alberta, where it was generated by burning fossil fuels.

The Energy Futures Institute said BC Hydro needs to ramp up power production as demand is forecast to keep climbing.

However, B.C.’s new energy minister Adrian Dix said the number reflects the significant multi-year drought affecting the province.

“We have one of the world’s most significant, most important hydro systems,” he said.

“We’re adding to that hydro system now with sites coming online and we have abundant other energy resources. And you bet we need to build more clean energy to drive our clean economy in B.C. There’s significant demand for that.” Shame it can’t even meet its own demand though.
Yada yada yada - they'll need electrical sources that includes O&G for years yet.
 
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