BREAKING: Bell to quadruple size of Regina data centre under construction

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BREAKING: Bell to quadruple the size of Regina AI data centre, build its own 900 MW of power generation

They haven’t even finished building the first part of its Regina data centre, yet Bell Canada will now quadruple it in size. The announcement is the largest dollar value project in Saskatchewan history, and its power consumption will equal 42 per cent of Saskatchewan’s current power generation on a mid-September day.

The power consumption will be equal to four BHP Jensen potash mines, which is to be the largest in the world. The economic impact of $50 billion will be greater that the dollar value of Saskatchewan’s provincial budget for not one, but two years, with several billion more to spare.

This is mammoth.

Also, check out today’s podcast, where Bronwyn and I got into a heavy debate with a gentleman on coal fired power generation.

The Great Coal Debate: Should Saskatchewan refurbish its coal fleet? Mitch Carlson on Ep. 44 Pipeline Online Podcast

And

Jim Warren: The more we learn about Donald Trump’s Venezuelan oil deal, the worse it looks

We Are All Treaty People

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National Post;

An Ontario judge has ruled that “colonialism” was primarily to blame in a deadly drunk driving crash that saw a First Nations man kill a 12-year-old girl.
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According to police reports, Darris Wilson’s Dodge Ram pickup truck was strewn with empty and partially consumed cans of beer when, in 2022, it slammed head-on into a vehicle carrying a mother and daughter en route to a sleepover.

Sierra Beverly, 12, was killed at the scene. Her mother, Naomi, suffered debilitating brain injuries for which she still requires 24-hour care. […]

Both the judge and the offender are members of Six Nations of the Grand River, Canada’s most populous First Nation.

Diversity Strong!

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There go those Catholics again…

A 41-year-old man who worked at a Saskatoon school is accused of sexually assaulting five children who were approximately 10 years old, according to police.

Officers received a report of the alleged sexual interference at St. Mary’s Wellness and Education Centre on May 26, the Saskatoon Police Service said in a news release. The offences are believed to have occurred between Sept. 1, 2025, and May 25, 2026.[…]

Court documents obtained by Global News indicate the accused is 41-year-old Hessam Aldin Sahrapour.

Sahrapour is facing five sexual assault charges and five assault charges. He is expected to appear in Saskatoon provincial court Wednesday.

Money For Nothing

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Now Wab proposes to hand out tax breaks for “investments” in the Port of Churchill. Newsflash: a 7% cost reduction is unlikely to convince any investor to sink money into a port that’s locked in ice for a substantial portion of every year. It’s doubtful the green lobby will like the idea of ships bulldozing polar bears either.

The province say the new tax measure would apply to proposals for a new energy corridor and liquefied natural gas facilities, upgrades to the railway that runs to the port and icebreaking capacity to support year-round shipping.

Racialized Justice

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What perpetrator of vehicular manslaughter wouldn’t be rehabilitated by spending more time “in nature”?

He considered how colonialization of the Six Nations band had led to a “major disconnection” to Wilson’s culture that, in turn, led him into “over-consumption of alcohol and unhealthy relationships.”

“This crystallized into the tragic events of Feb. 11, 2022,” said Edward.

The judge considered Wilson’s guilty plea and how he has spent his time since the crash in nature, focusing on cultural teachings and traditional practices, according to his mother.

 

The Doctor Will Kill You Now

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A state-run euthanasia program governed by strict procedural safeguards.

It was Sunday, October 24, 2021, when 61-year-old Donna confessed to her family that she had been approved for Canada’s assisted-dying programme, officially known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).

Her death was scheduled for the following Tuesday – expedited due to her having qualified for Canada’s streamlined ‘Track 1’ pathway, reserved for individuals whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable.

But Donna was not terminally ill, according to her daughters, who insist she was in the midst of a spiralling mental health crisis, triggered by a car accident and exacerbated by the isolation of the Covid-19 lockdown.

But most of all — it offers privacy.

Donna became the first known MAiD death in Canada to be investigated by police.

But the investigation grounded to a halt when the Fraser Health Authority refused to hand over the relevant records – the MAiD assessments themselves – to the police, citing privacy protections.

Please Don’t Be Normal

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On verboten realities; on lessons in ‘radical’ theft; and on the progressive desperation to have an interesting child, one way or another:

Having, as she does, a degree in gender studies, Ms Myers is vexed by many things. Such as being asked, kindly, while pregnant, whether she was expecting a boy or a girl. This, we’re informed, is not “a simple question with a simple answer.”

Says she, “My partner Brent and I had found out our child’s sex chromosomes in the early stages of my pregnancy, and we had seen their genitals during the anatomy scan. But we didn’t think that information told us anything about our kid’s gender.”

No, of course. No clues there. No information at all, in fact. Just random noise.

Needless to say, Ms Myers’ website and Twitter feed are an endless churn of unconvincing smiles and rather desperate progressive signalling. We learn, for instance, that “Knowing the sex of a baby… does not tell us anything about the child’s… attitudes toward climate change.”

All this and more.

A Losing Strategy

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Brian Lilley recently interviewed Professor Ian Lee who teaches at the Carlton University about Canada’s prospects for winning the trade war with the United States. In a nutshell, we pretty much lost before the war even began.

We’re we’re tariffing a little tiny tiny percentage 25 28 billion of that 400 billion and that 400 billion is 1.5%. So we are tariffing a subset of a subset of a subset of a very tiny number and we have convinced ourselves that this is going to move the needle of this enormous gargantuan economy and it will not.

WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

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First of all, I’m not endorsing this video. There’s a fair bit of hyperbole. But it is also a very interesting perspective on the current trade war between the United States and Canada. 

Weekend Watch: The US-Canada War has begun

Additional weekend reading:

Jim Warren: It’s kinda hard to worry about the climate when Trump’s trade war might put you out of work

Officials break ground on massive carbon capture project in central Alberta

Not sure if I posted this earlier in the week:

Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 42: Chris Beaudry, Saskatchewan Minister of Energy and Resources. Topics include ongoing trade war, pipelines, Venezuela, and growing Saskatchewan oil production. Beaudry will be speaking at the upcoming Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show in mid-September.

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