Western Expresso - Page 11

Bdog · #**201** Posted **Mar 16, 2011, 2:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

Anyone catch last week's SNL?

SNL vs Winnipeg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUtNb...layer_embedded

What's with the Fargo accents? lol

freeweed · #**202** Posted **Mar 24, 2011, 8:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by brithgob

If daylight time is so great, why not just leave it that way?

Because at least in Calgary, the sun wouldn't rise until after 9:30 in the morning.

DST (more specifically, going off of it) allows us to keep some semblance of connection to the rising and setting of the sun, at least in terms of folks who work/school with traditional 9-5ish hours. Which is still most people, contrary to popular belief.

freeweed · #**203** Posted **Mar 24, 2011, 8:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bdog

What's with the Fargo accents? lol

Fun fact: people in Fargo do not actually talk like that. It's more of an eastern Minnesota accent (and highly exaggerated at that).

Bdog · #**204** Posted **Mar 24, 2011, 8:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by freeweed

Fun fact: people in Fargo do not actually talk like that. It's more of an eastern Minnesota accent (and highly exaggerated at that).

Yes, I know - I've been to Fargo many times... I meant Fargo the MOVIE lol...

macblaze · #**205** Posted **Mar 31, 2011, 2:59 PM**

Hey boys and girls just to give you a heads up because of sask population boom we will be getting a new area code May 2013 sasktel will be makeing a ancouncment today

swilley · #**206** Posted **Mar 31, 2011, 3:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by macblaze

Hey boys and girls just to give you a heads up because of sask population boom we will be getting a new area code May 2013 sasktel will be makeing a ancouncment today

So who gets the new one? North or South?

macblaze · #**207** Posted **Mar 31, 2011, 3:54 PM**

not sure the corparte email did not provide us with much deatail I am thinking those would be things that will be worked out in the next year or so here some of the detail that I got today and which will be on the news today

Today SaskTel will issue a new release announcing that as a result of our growing population, an explosion of cellphone numbers and more competitive carriers operating in Saskatchewan there will be the need for a new area code in Saskatchewan. According to the Canadian Numbering Administrator (CNA), which assigns phone number blocks and area codes in the country, Saskatchewan is running out of 306 phone number blocks. The CNA has indicated Saskatchewan's 306 area code is expected to exhaust its supply of telephone numbers by May 2013.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which provides the regulatory oversight for the process, will issue a notice for public consultation and a Relief Planning Committee will be formed that will analyze all options and develop a recommendation for the implementation of a new area code in Saskatchewan. Options analyzed by the committee will include a geographic split or a provincial overlay of a new area code. The new area code will be confirmed after the CRTC has approved the Relief Planning Committee's recommendation.

jigglysquishy · #**208** Posted **Mar 31, 2011, 4:08 PM**

A new area code? My guess is that they split up Regina and Saskatoon for the area codes.

And those ariel shots of Saskatoon are beautiful. Some increased densification and we would become a lot closer to Paris. We have beautiful neighborhoods like Broadway and Downtown. Increased densification would only improve this.

Stormer · #**209** Posted **Mar 31, 2011, 4:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by macblaze

Hey boys and girls just to give you a heads up because of sask population boom we will be getting a new area code May 2013 sasktel will be makeing a ancouncment today

http://www.canadaviews.ca/2011/03/31...new-area-code/

What amazes me is that Sasktel alone has more wireless numbers than land lines. That doesn't count Rogers, Telus, etc.

Chaps · #**210** Posted **Mar 31, 2011, 5:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Stormer

http://www.canadaviews.ca/2011/03/31...new-area-code/

What amazes me is that Sasktel alone has more wireless numbers than land lines. That doesn't count Rogers, Telus, etc.

Shouldn't be too surprising. Any given houseold usually has a single landline...but mom, dad, and kid/s all have their own cellphones.

Stormer · #**211** Posted **Mar 31, 2011, 5:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chaps

Shouldn't be too surprising. Any given houseold usually has a single landline...but mom, dad, and kid/s all have their own cellphones.

Although, for example wife and I also have at least 4 landlines between us: home, cottage, office (one each) plus fax lines at our offices. My point is that there are a lot of landlines out there.

freeweed · #**212** Posted **Mar 31, 2011, 9:46 PM**

I bet they'll go with an overlay. Geographical splits just aren't popular anymore (and require a heck of a lot of work to change half a province's numbers).

eternallyme · #**213** Posted **Apr 1, 2011, 2:19 AM**

Almost certainly it will be an overlay, and Saskatchewan joins 90% of Canada in 10-digit dialing. That will grow to 95% in 2016 when Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (902) require a second code as well, and some say the last outposts (i.e. 807) will join in at the same time as well, even where a new area code won't be needed for decades.

Probably look for 474 around March 2013. However, just maintaining 306 for two years will be tricky with the amount of demand in the last year, they will need strict number conservation tactics.

Riverman · #**214** Posted **Apr 1, 2011, 1:33 PM**

GREAT April fools joke!

http://urbantoronto.ca/content.php?1...Revitalization

drm310 · #**215** Posted **Apr 1, 2011, 1:57 PM**

Say goodbye to tasteless water: report going to Saskatoon city council

By Hayden Finch, The StarPhoenix
April 1, 2011

If a city committee gets its way, Saskatoon will be the first municipality in the country to offer its citizens flavoured tap water on special occasions.

A report going to council Monday argues in favour of a Water Enhancement Team (WET), which will sample flavours and solicit suggestions from citizens through social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

The idea stems from the search engine Google’s initiative to re-imagine its logo on special occasions such as Harry Houdini’s birthday and Sonny and Cher’s wedding anniversary. [...]

Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/g...959/story.html

babo · #**216** Posted **Apr 15, 2011, 12:32 PM**

No longer required.

camo-cam · #**217** Posted **Apr 27, 2011, 8:51 AM**

What is this thread suppost to be about

The Jabroni · #**218** Posted **Apr 27, 2011, 3:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by camo-cam

What is this thread suppost to be about

It's more of a social topic for the Sask-Man forumers here. In other words, feel free to shoot the s*** with all of us.

1ajs · #**219** Posted **Apr 27, 2011, 10:09 PM**

if u get a off topic convo in a thread going that does not fit in any threads move over and and continue it if i find a one i will move it here

also i had a freak incident with a table on sunday morning and have a concussion

JayM · #**220** Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 1:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by drm310

Say goodbye to tasteless water: report going to Saskatoon city council

By Hayden Finch, The StarPhoenix
April 1, 2011

If a city committee gets its way, Saskatoon will be the first municipality in the country to offer its citizens flavoured tap water on special occasions.

A report going to council Monday argues in favour of a Water Enhancement Team (WET), which will sample flavours and solicit suggestions from citizens through social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

The idea stems from the search engine Google’s initiative to re-imagine its logo on special occasions such as Harry Houdini’s birthday and Sonny and Cher’s wedding anniversary. [...]

Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/g...959/story.html

Hmm that can go many ways!