#Saskatchewan

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My Top 5 from 2018! Enjoy

In memory of…

Gray-Card top 5… my top 5 of 2018.

Thanks to @ms-excuse-me

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A disease often thought to only affect 18th century sailors is reemerging in Canada.

Earlier this week, doctors identified 27 cases of scurvy caused by prolonged and severe vitamin C deficiency in northern Saskatchewan. Experts say the confirmed diagnoses highlight a broader issue with poverty and food insecurity in rural and remote communities across the country.

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"In Saskatchewan, Canada’s first free grocery store is set to open as a flourishing food bank continues to look for ways to support the community.

Located at 1881 Broad St. in Regina, the Food Hub will be stocked like any old grocery store, and unlike similar projects that operate out of churches or community centers, it will feature a produce section, floor-to-ceiling display fridges, and be open all week.

The Regina Food Bank believes that allowing people who rely on the food bank for food security to fill out a cart just like a normal grocery store gives back agency, and may actually help feed more people by reducing waste.

“None of us fit in a box, but that’s what we give our clients today,” Regina Food Bank vice-president David Froh told CBC News. “When you give choices, you give not just dignity, but actually, we figure we can feed about 25% more people.”

One client explained that getting handed a crate of canned/boxed goods put together in a hurry based on what was in stock rarely provides a selection that accounts for things like dietary restrictions, allergies, proper nutrition, or even just synergistic flavors between the foods.

“Normally I barter with my neighbors and we swap back and forth, so it kind of works out that way. But a lot of people don’t do that,” said food bank client Jon White. “So there’s a lot of stuff that just goes to waste.”

The Regina Food Bank doesn’t just support the unhoused or others in dire need of aid; 18% of its clients work full-time, and 2,000 students receive school snacks and meals through their work. Part of their overall objectives with the Food Hub is to reduce societal stigma against using a food bank.

Food banks do not receive government subsidies, so Froh and his colleagues had to look for private donations to raise the CAD$3.7 million they needed to get the Food Hub off the ground. Some of this came from piggy bank-sized gifts, but they also received a CAD$1 million donation from The Mosaic Company.

Much of the stock is produced, grown, or processed in Saskatchewan—part of Regina Food Bank’s goal to improve the sustainability and nutritional quality of the food their clients rely on."

-via Good News Network, June 4, 2024

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i was inspired by my last rb.

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Eamon Mac Mahon (Canadian, b. 1976)

Thunderstorm, Northern Saskatchewan, 2004

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Abandoned hot dawg food truck in Saskatchewan (source)

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Lepine elevators, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2020 - by David Burdeny (1968), Canadian

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Saskatchewan prairie views.

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My Top 5 from 2020! Enjoy

My Gray-Card Memorial Top 5.

1) South Island, New Zealand, Beauty.

March 25th.

2) Rise n Shine. March 10th.

3) Cotton Candy Clouds. July 22nd.

4) 2 Tree Prairie Road. November 12th.

5) Saskatchewan Storm. July 20th.

Thank you to @luxlit for keeping it going!

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A 73-year-old Métis man says he is angry and wants to know why his ponytail was cut without his consent while he was in hospital for a hip surgery. On Aug. 30, Ruben St. Charles fell out of his bed, breaking his hip and causing him to need medical attention. His wife called an ambulance and he was taken to the Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon. He had surgery on his hip, but once he came to afterward he saw that his ponytail, which he said was about a foot long, had been snipped off. "I checked my head and all that, I thought to myself, 'What the?' No ponytail, nothing. My hair was standing up," St. Charles said. St. Charles said he started screaming. He said he wanted to give his braid to his sister, but at 73 he doubts he'll be able to grow it out that long again. "I was supposed to hand that down from generation to generation. My two older brothers passed away and I couldn't give that to them," St. Charles said. "My whole dreams are gone right there. Now what I want to do, I want to die peacefully and I don't want to hold resentments."

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Bulling Street, Kerrobert, Saskatchewan.

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Bloodthirsty critter.

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Despite what my lesser cousin would say, I am indeed the greater chicken.

Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)

Prairie regions of the USA, possibly extirpated in Canada

Status: Protected in some states, Attwater subspecies federally Endangered

The Heath Hen subspecies once existed in New England, and went extinct in 1932 despite efforts to preserve it.

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Tatiana Maslany speaks out for Palestine during her Canada's Walk of Fame acceptance speech in her hometown Regina on June 26 2024.

We are witnessing the genocide of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli settler-colonial state, and we watch and we do nothing. And I would say with whatever platform I have that we can't do nothing and I would demand that our government demand a ceasefire, stop funding the genocide, stop being complicit in it... Free Palestine!