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That's not the case in Canada.

For example, the Saskatchewan Health Information Protection Act means that the RCMP can not access the list of medical cannabis users maintained by Health Canada. Health Canada themselves are restricted by provincial regulations like HIPA, because they don't have jurisdiction.

As a result, the only thing the RCMP can do during an investigation is ask Health Canada if a particular address they are investigation had a medical license, and if so, what the plant count limit is. They can't find out anything about the prescribing doctor, the reason you have authorization, or anything else related to the case at hand. Only that you have been granted permission to grow n plants.

Contrast that with Canada, where the provinces have regulations like Saskatchewan's Health Information Protection Act, that explicitly mandate the protection and security of medical records and prescriptions.

Site says 200/40. The September announcement about them starting with the UofR says gigabit down (unspecified upstream) "by the end of this decade".

Well, then he's picking a poor example of web security given the banking industry's track record on break-ins and id theft.

If you want to see guidelines about what you have to provide for a secure system, check out Saskatchewan Health Information Protection Act for one region's take on what data protection means.

As to the technology of how to deploy that, there are no easy answers and checklist standards. New attack vectors and design oversights come out all the time, so web security is an ongoing battle, not something you just design for and "finish".

We have the same sort of things (Healthline) over here in Saskatchewan.

Even though it might be a heat wave where you are, I know that shorts were not invented by a Canadian.

Not invented by us... but certainly still utilized by us. I live in a small town Saskatchewan. A good portion of the population still wears shorts in the winter.

I wear nothing more than undergarments, blue jeans, a t-shirt and a 'bunnyhug' (sask. term -- 'hoodie' everywhere else) during the winter... which can be as low as -40C.

Last winter I dug my '91 Chrysler Daytona out of the snow (literally up to over a meter high) a few times (sometimes resorting to a neighbours help) wearing just that.

1) Now matter how you produce it, evenif a miracle in effciency happened, at the end of the process any ethanol produced is going to be dissolved in water. Drying it out is going to eat the efficiency.

That depends on where you are. In Saskatchewan (and I think most other provinces if not all of them) film ratings and age restrictions are established and enforced by provincial law.

The problem is that farming isn't currently economically feasible on good land never mind marginal or poor land and the commodity price means it won't support the energy and equipment cost of irrigation, regardless of the productivity improvement. Ethanol from wheat is a growing industry, but the economics both for the ethanol producer and the grain producer are the problem not the technology or ability to supply enough wheat.

We are so far away from producing the quantity of ethanol that would cause a wheat shortage it isn't worth discussion at this point.

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It a bit of a tough sell to build a high capital investment clean energy system in an area that has that much coal.

That may well be the way you want it to work, but check out the 2001-2002 report of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission and look for "Hugh Owens". He faced legal action for buying a newspaper ad full of Bible verses. He went fishing in the bilges of the Bible for some nasty anti-homosexual verses, compiled a list and published them.

His case had an interesting course through the system that didn't really fit the narrative that the hate groups promulgated, which was "they've declared the Bible to be illegal hate speech". It started with him being ordered to pay CDN$1500 and went through some appeals.

Point being, it was not incitement to criminal activity, and if you were correct then the government would not have acted.

You may wish to look up "Order in Council"; though this is not exactly the equivalent of Executive Order in that there is minimal backing in legislation. That legislation, however, can transfer an aweful lot to cabinet.

http://www.immigrationsask.gov.sk.ca/

Sask. has been saying they want more skilled immigrants, and will sponsor skilled individuals on their federal application for immigration. With our declining population of 1 Million, we can use all the skilled immigrants we can get, as the thousands a year we do get aren't turning the tide in our population loss.

Some industries where there is enormous potential in IT is the mining industry, including uranium mining, and the film industry is really taking off in Regina with the successes of "Corner Gas" on weekly TV and "Just Friends" in the theatres.

This kind of misinformation is annoying. I make about $55,000/year (CDN). About 23% of that goes to taxes. Other deductions (SuperAnnuation (Pension Plan), Uninon Dues, CPP (Federal Pension Plan), and EI (Employment Insurance)) work out to about 12% of my gross pay. So, I take home about 65% of my gross pay.

Regina also has a very thriving tech sector as well. The low cost of living has attracted several call centres including Staples and StarTek.

If things really get bad, I'm going off grid in Saskatchewan.

Many governments will provide many types of assistance to victims of crime, but I've never heard of a government paying compensation to victims:

Now you have.

Ever needed an item that wasn't in your library? OCLC handles the system for arranging inter-library loans.

You could have fooled me. Around here, that function (and other related functions)is taken care of by the provincial governent. See information here.

well, canada is significantly ahead of the states in broadband penetration in general. source for that statement is here. other source here. there are two reasons for this:

1. there's government programs. look at the canadian gov'ts "broadband for rural and northern areas" program: it's here. even saskatchewan, which has a reputation for being behind the curve has a program to get broadband across the province in three years. it's here. so, reason one: government money.
2. there's competition! in canada if you can get cable tv and phone service you probably have two choices for broadband. the tv and phone companies want to expand into rural areas to get the first-to-market jump on the other guy. so, reason two: competition.

Bull. Canada never had nuclear weapons. There were American weapons & bombers stationed in Canada, but there never were Canadian nuclear bombs.

Nope, you're the one who's lacking in history class.

Canada had nuclear missiles on a number of CF-18 hornets (note: CF = 'Canadian forces').

Here's a link. ...It wasn't hard to find. The relevant information is near the bottom of the page.

You do know the Saskatchewan government turned down the EDS proposol don't you?
http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/releases/2003/03/06-1 29.html.
And I believe CGI and TMC have more Government contracts in Sask than EDS. .

You do know the Saskatchewan government turned down the EDS proposol don't you?
http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/releases/2003/03/06-1 29.html.
And I believe CGI and TMC have more Government contracts in Sask than EDS. .

You seem to be confused as to the relation between altitude and gradient. If you have a steep slope that goes up and down over 10 miles (In Korea), it's going to be alot shorter in overall height than one that goes up and down over 200 miles (the Rockies). That still doesn't mean that the first mountain is less steep (and rough) than the second. And plus, how many cities in the U.S. have 14,000 foot peaks "nearby" (less than 2 hours drive).

Didn't you have to go through tunnels in Seoul (There's quite a few). Did you go to Namsan Tower? How much did you drive in Seoul? How about this quote from a 5th grade study outline "A physical relief map will reveal that the north and east parts of Korea are very mountainous while the south and west have more fields. It is said that you can see a mountain from everywhere in Korea. Have students speculate on the amount of land that would be available for agriculture in such a mountainous country. (Only about one fourth of the land comprising the Republic of Korea is arable)." (source. Or how about this page. Don't you think they would know?

Look, obviously, you have experienced Korea (and you have my sympathies if you chose to drive). What I'm saying is that the perceptions which remain from your experience are flawed. Are you saying that all these sources have a distorted view of the terrain of Korea and your view is correct? Ask your guide in Korea. Ask anyone who has done more than "visit" Korea. Trust me: No one (especially not a cable or antenna engineer) is going to call much of South Korea "flat". Not even Seoul or Busan.

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They are not banning the teaching of evolution, only the teaching of evolution as proven scientific fact.

They are banning the teaching of evolution as an origin of a species, scientific fact or not, read the article. They are still going to allow teaching evolution within a species. For example if humans evolved to where they didn't have an appendix anymore, they could teach that as evolution, but they can't teach that humans evolved from apes or that amphibians evolved from fish.

It's a theory, and that is what it has been mandated to be taught as.

There is an all too common misconception about what it means to be a theory and what it means to be a law. People think that something that isn't proven is a theory and when it is proven it is a law. THIS IS FALSE.

A theory is a system of ideas or a sphere of abstract knowledge which attempts to explain why certain phenomena occur.

Examples: Theory of Evolution, Theory of Relativity, etc. These are not theories because they are "unproven". They are theories because they explain why things are the way they are.

A law is a statement of specific conditions or relationships that exist in nature.

Examples: Law of Gravity, Laws of Motion, etc. These are not laws because they have been "proven". It is arguable that NOTHING can ever be "proven". They are laws because they describe the Universe and the relationships therein.

If I say "Force equals mass times acceleration." This is a law because it is a statement of a relationship regardless of whether or not it is accurate. If I say "Kansas banned evolution because people in Kansas are ignorant." This is a theory because it tries to explain why something occured or why something occurs, regardless of whether or not it is accurate.

I got my definitions here. It's a page about heat and temperature, but it still gives the definitions. You just have to scroll down about a screen.

it should be seen as a continuing search for evidence.

Science is always a continuing search for evidence. Not teaching well-founded, though controvertial, scientific theories isn't. If they really wanted a "search for evidence" in Kansas, they would increase their evolution curriculum and go into more detail about exactly what the evidence is for and against evolution, rather than erase it entirely. This is nothing but an exercise in ignorance.

We haven't (and will not be able to) prove evolution, but at least we can still continue to try.

Nothing can be proven. Scientific principles can only be disproven. A scientific principle is accepted when there is sufficient evidence for it and there is nothing to contradict it. Evolution is accepted: there is evidence, and nothing contradicts it. Why should it be treated differently than any other scientific principle because there are people too ignorant to accept it. The funny thing is that if they weren't so closeminded, they would understand that evolution doesn't even disprove God, it simply changes one's understanding.

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