Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

The recent tragic events in Burma and China have perhaps distracted us from another emergency facing the world, and that is a world wide food crisis. Most people (in Canada) wouldn’t recognize it as a ‘crisis’ because it doesn’t personally affect anyone we know. We just know of them. They, are out there, and they don’t have access to food, even though we import it from countries on their continents, and throw away each day sometimes as much as someone would need to eat for a meal.

A possible, and apparently likely, scenario is played out here on the GAB blog. It seems counter-intuitive to me and my peers that we’d face starvation in Canada, because it’s never happened before (in recent history). We see wealth only increasing here, and technology getting only better. How could we ever run short of food, when a tractor and mined fertilizer grows so much grain? We’ve never faced a crisis where the supply of our food was disrupted for long enough for people to start panicking.

Better still (we think) we’re bordered by a peaceful nation (or rather one with mostly peaceful people), America, who would never invade us for our resources because they would just trade money for our food. Well, that may be true, but what if we don’t want to sell them enough because we’d start starving here if we sold them all they wanted? Put yourself in the place of a starving person whose government refused to help? Would Canada as a nation stand aside and let some of our citizens die of hunger, rather than invade a country that refused to sell us the food we have the money for?

I think the Canadian famine that some far-right wing bloggers long for, may be closer than they’d like it to be. Famine is a major national security issue, not just an economic or environmental one either. You think immigration is a mess now? Wait until 5 million hungry refugees land on our shores in the span of a couple years. I used to think that Saskatchewan would never grow to 2 million people. Well, it might just happen, just not how the Sask Party was planning!

In Saskatchewan, a city is essentially a town with more than 5000 people. Well Census Canada gave us a new one out of thin air, because they forgot to include an estimate adjustment previously. How could they forget, seriously?

Anyway, I propose calling the new fictional city:
Saskboyville
population: 5903

An adjustment in the Statistics Canada census count suggests there are 5,903 more people in Saskatchewan than initially thought, meaning the province’s population as of Jan. 1 was 1,012,547.

The overnight .59-per-cent increase is a result of a correction in the 2006 census “undercoverage adjustment”, according to information provided to the government from Statistics Canada.

The initial May, 13, 2006, census count in Saskatchewan totaled 968,157. However, the federal bureau readily acknowledges that people get missed in the census and it adjusts then re-adjusts its estimate of the number of people thought to have been missed. The latest “undercoverage adjustment” number for this province has been revised to 24,710 — 5,903 more. That means the actual population of the province on Census Day nearly two years ago should have been 992,867.