Minhas Creek to lower prices

As a poor university student in Manitoba, sometimes I don't have the money to drink any type of alcohol, but just over one year ago a small beer company called "Minhas Creek Craft Brewing Company" which was a company that produced very inexpensive beer to the masses, they were able to do this by outsourcing the beer production to American based beer company Joseph Huber Brewing Co., they sold their beer for under $7/6 pack (after taxes/deposit), which was much cheaper than the cheapest beer at the time. Then a few months later Molson lowered the price of its popular beer Molson Dry, and undercut Minhas Creek (price wise) by approx 4c/6-pack, and then Labatt came in and did the same thing with their Labatt Lucky Lager, after these two companies took over the control of the cheap beer market, Minhas Creek upped the price of their popular beer. But during this period of time, I was glad to be a beer drinker, with the ability to buy beer for so cheap, but after Minhas Creek increased the price of their beer, so did Labatt and Molson, since they had control over the cheap beer market, and now the price of a 6-pack is 30 cents more than it was 2 months earlier.

Now Minhas Creek is back and wants to take over the market again, they are planning to bring their beer price back to what it was a year ago, thus having a more affordable beer than Molson/Labatt do now, the price after it gets set in the beginning of May should be approx $6.90 after taxes, versus $7.25, I'm excited to see this happen again, with a full-on beer war starting up again!

Story: Link

Polygamist group not welcome in Saskatchewan

As many of you know, there is a group of polygamists in Utah/Arizona who are wanting to avoid criminal charges in the US who are wanting to set up a settlement in rural Saskatchewan to avoid the charges. Concidering how much we make fun of Saskatchewan for being a "backwards" province, government officials are not welcoming the Mormon polygamist groups to move to Saskatchewan.

If they were allowed to move to Saskatchewan, this wouldn't be the first Mormon polygamist group in Canada, in a town in BC there's Mormon polygamists there. They are concidering to move to Saskatchewan because of the amount of farmland that Saskatchewan offers. Who knows if the Saskatchewan government will allow them to move to the province.

Story: Click Here

The Throne Speech

The main points of the throne speech from the CBC:

-Legislation to "clean up government," with new rules on lobbying and campaign donations.

-A one-point cut in the goods and services tax, to six per cent, with a possible cut to five per cent later.

-"Direct financial support" for child care, with no mention of the dollar figure cited in the campaign, $1,200 a year for each child under six.

-Tougher sentences for violent and repeat offenders, particularly those convicted of gun crimes, and more police on the street.

-More elbow-room for "a strong and dynamic Quebec" within Canada, including a role for Quebec in UNESCO, the United Nations agency.

-A formal apology for the Chinese "head tax" charged to Chinese immigrants between 1885 and 1923.

First day of the new session

Today had the "throne speech" from the new government of Canada, I'll write more about it later, since right now I don't have much information about what went on, but Peter Millikin was re-elected as speaker of the throne, which was a bit interesting in my opinion, I didn't think that a Liberal would be elected as the speaker when it's a Conservative government.

The school year is practically over, for next school year, I have plans to get out of the school's political science club, I don't feel welcome in the club and there's a few people I know that hate me, I can try being as nice as I can but what's the use of being in a club where there are only a few people who make you feel welcome. I lost the election of secretary in the club a week ago, I don't mind it, I'm just leaving the club because I'm tired of all the tension between members, some people won't even talk to me, and ever since this school year started, I felt sort of not welcome, but anywho I'm planning on volunteering for BUSU possibly, and who knows what else yet.

Sit Tight.

Ashley MacIsaac running for the Liberals

I just found out a few days ago that famous Canadian dancin' fiddler Ashley MacIsaac is running for the leadership of the Liberal Party.

I'm wondering if the leadership race will be the Canadian equivalent to the election candidate farce back in California 2-3 years back where a boat-load of celebrities ran for governor of California.

So now we (possibly) have.. 1 retired hockey player, 1 dancin' fiddler (who oddly enough is a rocker now), two former Conservatives, a former NDPer, and an American, what next, an astronaut (Marc Garneau) and a TV star who played a cop (Tina Keeper)?

Should be interesting how the leadership turns out, if he wins, he could possibly get the "youth vote", although lots of "homophobic Liberal supporters" will vote Conservative.

Link: Click Here