Saskatchewan, Canada
Joined March 2012
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My little book hit #1 and they sold out a few times, but copies are now back on the shelf and well stocked at the great @McNallySK independent Canadian bookstore in Saskatoon -- get your copy today, friends! (In-store or link in reply.)
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Welcome back to @RogersPlace, 101-year-old retired Able Seaman Marty Jones!
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Saskatchewan ranks third in the world for mining investment attractiveness and is home to 27 of Canada’s 34 critical minerals.
Learn more: investsk.ca/sectors/mining-c…
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ALT Two geologist work on a rock site in Northern Saskatchewan. The graphic reads "Mining and Critical Minerals. #3 in the world for mining investment attractiveness"
I just posted the short story 'The Hike' -- check it out (for free!) on Substack!
rconradspeer.substack.com/p/… – at North Battleford, Saskatchewan
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“our pork processors across the country are still being challenged by Chinese tariffs of 25% on Canadian pork exports. And what that has done is really dampened down the amount of pork we're exporting to China and has added up to considerable losses”
realagriculture.com/2026/11/…
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'Currently there are 60 large-scale projects in planning or underway in Saskatchewan. These projects represent over $100 billion in private capital investment'
Saskatchewan’s economy continues to grow.
GDP reached a record $84.5 billion in 2025, up 2.9% from 2024. Growth was widespread, with gains led by agriculture and construction.
Learn more: investsk.ca/2026/11/05/saska…
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'The closure of the Strait of Hormuz also substantially hiked the cost of farming. Approximately one-third of global fertilizer trade moved through the narrow channel.'
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'Report Interprovincial Trade Red Tape
Report different provincial requirements that create extra costs, cause delays or make it harder to sell your goods and services across Canada.'
Red tape can create unnecessary barriers for businesses, organizations and individuals. Share your feedback to help identify opportunities to improve government services and reduce administrative burden.
Learn more and submit feedback: saskatchewan.ca/government/p…
#InvestSK
ALT Person in work overalls standing with arms crossed. Text reads, “Help Cut Red Tape. Help identify barriers and make it easier to do business in Saskatchewan.”
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Saskatchewan’s merchandise exports continue to show strong growth.
From January to September 2026, merchandise exports increased 15.1% compared to the same period in 2025, ranking Saskatchewan second among the provinces in percentage growth.
bit.ly/4ilZcUF
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ALT Saskatchewan merchandise exports increased 15.1 per cent from January to September 2026 compared to the same period in 2025, ranking second among the provinces for growth. The graphic shows a worker monitoring grain flowing from processing equipment.
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From veterinary research lab to patent powerhouse:
How @VIDOInterVac at #USask became home to one of the largest and most secure facilities in the world for investigating and dealing with any kind of disease-causing organism:
universityaffairs.ca/news/fr…
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We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the Milky Way at 230 km/s (828,000 km/h), more than 18,000 kilometers every 80 seconds.
Because the Solar System is tilted 60.2° to the galactic plane and bobs up and down through the galactic disc roughly every 30 million years, the planets trace open 3D corkscrew helices across deep space rather than flat loops.
The last time the Sun stood where it stands today, one Galactic Year (230 million years) ago, the very first dinosaurs were only beginning to appear on Earth. Since forming 4.6 billion years ago, our Sun has completed only 20 laps.
'The trouble with the present is
that it's always in a state of vanishing.
Take the second it takes to end
this sentence with a period--already gone.' – at North Battleford, Saskatchewan
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Another successful fix ⏤ after 49 years and 16 billion miles! 🔧
Engineers recently turned off devices on Voyager 1 and substituted them with lower-power alternatives. Nicknamed the “Big Bang,” the energy-saving effort will allow the remaining instruments to operate longer. ½
ALT In a photo from the 1970s, engineers gather around one of the Voyager spacecraft before it was launched.
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@NASAHubble and @NASAWebb captured a purr-fect view of the Cat’s Head Nebula.
This long thin structure, made of dark, dense dust, looks like the head of a cat, its eye a newborn star still shrouded by the dust and gas from which it formed.
science.nasa.gov/missions/hu…
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A visit to a starry cauldron in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) 🧙♀️
161,000 light-years away, in one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, is the star-forming region N159. 1/3
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JUST IN: Neuralink announces breakthrough in restoring speech for ALS patients, reporting that its brain implants can now convert neural signals into text & voice at conversational speeds.
