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Thanks. When we saw this, my wife and I just guesstimated that it would have to be close to $30 based on our experiences in the mid-late 1970s compared to now.

I was earning about 1.5 times minimum wage and managed to keep a pretty nice 2-bedroom apartment and food on the table while she stayed home with our son. We didn't think we had a lavish lifestyle, but we still managed a decent used car, her motorcycle, weekly date nights, and fairly regular camping trips.

Sadly, that might actually qualify for a fairly lavish lifestyle today.

Does anyone have a good estimate for what minimum wage would be if this had been implemented in 1970?

Oh for heaven's sake. By now, building codes should prohibit new single-family and low-density (< 12 units) multi-family construction with gas hookups, without solar that matches expected electrical demand, and without 3 days of battery backup.

If that means a 900 square foot house instead of a 2500 square foot house and no more low-density multi-family construction so be it.

Likewise, the building codes should require some of that stuff during certain kinds of renovations and repairs. For example, replacing a gas furnace with another gas furnace should be prohibited.

If the grid and manufacturing capacity won't handle it today, then they better damn well get going, because that's what it's going to take.

I live in a farming community. For the most part, the retired farmers know that the expression "million dollar snow" refers to the benefits of a late March storm that dumps a foot of snow on the fields, not the cost of digging out.

The younger ones definitely don't understand that Saskatchewan crops are about snow pack, not rainfall. The right rain at the right time can do wonders, but nothing beats reliable snowpack and some combination of occasional rain and moderate temperatures.

I find it interesting that it's the retired farmers who are more aware of and more concerned about climate change than their kids and grandkids.

News casters keep saying, "look at all of this wonderful weather we're having," but this is not the winter I would've signed up for.

I finally spoke my mind the other day when someone commented on the "beautiful" weather. It did not go well.

That result came after the decision that led to the plebiscite so could not be factored into the decision. Unless you think they had a crystal ball telling them the outcome ahead of time.

A plebiscite is, by definition, the means by which a governing body lets the people decide. You can easily argue that an outcome should be valid only if there is, say, 2/3 majority, but that's not the system we have.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of being called a twat when I was being civil, respectful, and thoughtful. I'm too old to put up with much shit, so... blocked.

... against 3 unnamed individuals, not against any company.

Please read the whole article, not just the headline.

Council, including the mayor, claim to have been against this bylaw and supposedly supported rejecting it.

It seems that they made a tactical error in not allowing it the full three readings in council. Since it was a motion brought forward by the community, refusing to give it the full three readings in council meant that it had to go to plebiscite (a binding referendum) under provincial legislation.

What the hell? Journalism really has disappeared. Why isn't there a single story from a major outlet that includes both results, explaining the differences and implications?

Thanks for the update.

Well, since there is no syphilis vaccine, nobody is vaccinated.

Also, for what it's worth, TD is not just the only bank I know of, but the only website I know of that allows for a user-generated username to be used for login. My TD username was generated by the password generator of my password manager :)

So they don't get it all wrong.