Clearing The Air In Saskatchewan Schools

Posted on by John Klein

It’s likely all of the existing schools, and even the new ones are operating illegally* anyway with the presence of a BSL3 pathogen.

And the relatively new Douglas Park School has unsafe air quality, despite 2 Regina Trustees assuring me it was fixed. I confirmed the unsafe air quality myself with a sensor available at Canadian Tire or the Regina Public Library.

Aleana Young and Carla Beck know about schools. They probably know better than I do how antiquated their ventilation systems are. Well, old ventilation systems not designed in the 1920s to handle the previous pandemic, are not going to keep kids safe during this one. Upgrading the air quality for our kids means they’ll do better in school, stay healthier, and live longer lives.

There’s a great podcast episode with and indoor air quality expert who explains all the benefits of improving school air quality, and also how unreasonably resistant most administrators are to the plan. Even if there was not a clear threat from COVID-19 in schools, kids still would benefit from having enough fresh air to operate their brains at their highest potential level.

This blog post was inspired by Aleana’s Facebook post on how Scott Moe’s town is getting a new school ahead of others, for some unknown reason.

*”Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release (abandonment) or dissemination of biological agents.These agents include bacteria, viruses, fungi…& or toxins, & may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form, in much the same way as in biological warfare.” SARS-CoV-2 is a Bio-hazard Safety Level 3 (or higher) pathogen. Governments are technically terrorizing everyone by leaving this threat to disseminate in schools (and elsewhere in public).

Air Quality Reports Remain Wrong in Saskatchewan

Posted on by John Klein

Last year I asked what I thought was a rhetorical question, but it turns out that MP Kram’s office has responded to my concern. The problem remains a year later, however.

“Hi John, thanks for circling back on this. We have not yet heard back from Environment Canada regarding this topic but I will bring this up and see what we can do to continue advocating for this. With air quality warnings going on as recently as a week ago in Toronto you would think that the authorities would take this more seriously. I will endeavour to bring this up with my superiors to see if we can further advocate on this topic. Thank you once again for bringing this to Michael’s attention.

From Nigel @ the
Office of Michael Kram”

Wildfire smoke season is maybe only weeks away, and Saskatchewan still doesn’t have accurate air quality reports or forecasts from Environment Canada using Saskatchewan Government data. No idea if the TV/other news media in Saskatchewan will pick up this story to better inform the public, so they know not to trust the Environment Canada reports until they’re fixed.

New Nuclear Costs Too Much

Posted on by John Klein

The Sask Government wants SaskPower to build nuclear reactors for 2035.
Currently Saskatchewan has about 5GW of electricity generation.
Take a look at what Bladeofthesun says about British nuclear power ambitions, in comparison to Saskatchewan’s power needs.

“The Hinkley C UK nuclear reactor will produce 3.2GW, it will cost £50bn. For that the UK could have built 40GW of Wind Turbines in 1/5th of the time.

Which would even on the least windy days of the year produce TWICE as much electricity.

Nuclear is an unnecessary RIPOFF.”

Using these (a bit unfair) figures from the UK for nuclear, the cost of adding 3.2GW is roughly $91.5Bil CAD in Saskatchewan.

Sask’s annual budget is only $21.1Bil.

However, 1/8th of that nuclear plant would cost $11.4Bil, and produce much more electricity, faster, from wind and solar. Plus add a battery upgrade.

What’s 1/8th of 40GW of wind? 5GW, exactly what Saskatchewan needs right now, except we already have a lot of hydro from Manitoba, plus coal and #CCS that needs shutting down here. New methane plants become obsolete once we install enough battery storage systems around the grid too.

To be more fair, let’s assume conservatively that Blade’s example is wrong by half, in both directions. Renewables still kick nuclear power’s butt in all ways when coupled with storage that is already commercially available.

And that’s just the building phase of each where nuclear loses to renewables. Nuclear is built last even when started at the same time, and costs much, much more.
Once each is built, renewable energy costs nothing in fuel costs. Nuclear continues to need fuel added, and [dangerous] waste stored.

Nuclear power in Ontario: a controversial history

Ontario is a better comparison to the shitestorm SaskPower will face in regulations and costs than the UK, and it’s obvious to anyone with a calculator (that should be anyone), that nuclear can’t compete in the free market.

It doesn’t take an economic genius to realize that free energy costs MUCH less than mined & refined uranium fuel heating a fresh water supply.

And today a press release about Kazakhstan arrived in my inbox. They already have about 3.5GW of renewable power installed. The think tank with the press release says they’ll have over 13GW of renewables by 2035. I would hope that a Canadian province could do a better job than Kazakhstan, at converting our electrical grid to one that doesn’t rely on carbon fuels.

Nova Scotia, starting in 2022 is supposed to have 5GW of renewable wind power offshore, just 4 years from now. In 8 years, we could have 5GW of wind power, meeting ~80% of our power needs by 2034, if we started this year.

Put that $11 billion into context:Canadian Natural Resources, one of the largest & most influential oil &gas companies in CAN, has proposed Jackpine Mine. Last week, in the midst of reporting its annual results for 2025 — it announced that it was deferring $150 m on its $8.25 billion expansion.

— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy.bsky.social) 2026-03-10T20:43:03.302Z

Roshan Gopal Krishnan Menon – Count Roshculla

Posted on by John Klein

I noticed it had been a long time since I’d seen something from my blogger friend Roshan, and looked him up on Facebook only to find that he’d passed away last year around May 28, 2025 when he stopped posting there.

Roshan was an atheist who lived in India. We met while each blogging, and shared an interest in Canadian politics, Star Trek, and technology. I’d hoped to meet him one day in Canada, but he never got to make a trip here as a tourist, unfortunately.

His last blog post was about the Friends finale. Fitting.

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Roshan in 2023, taken by himself

129 Year Old Lost Film Found

Posted on by John Klein

The earliest example of a film featuring a robot was found in a library. It’s a bit degraded at the very end, but it’s a short film, and appears to be complete. Gugusse et l’Automate English language title: Gugusse and the automaton.

1897 short film about a robot.Gugusse et l'AutomateEnglish language title: Gugusse and the automaton #silentfilm

— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy.bsky.social) 2026-03-04T18:14:24.908Z

Coat Caper

Posted on by John Klein

My coat was stolen while at Trifons on Friday night, but their staff were able to identify who did it from security footage.

From their ID of their regular customers who walked out with it, it was clear that the theft was likely an accidental mixup. My wallet was in my now missing coat, they said not to worry about the bill.

My friends realized I could trace the coat from the phone that was inside it too. I searched the web, signed in from another phone, and got a map. It was parked outside a dispensary on Massey. My bike was now permanently locked in front of the restaurant, on account of my keys being gone. A friend drove me over to the dispensary, with some chase music on the radio, but the tracking signal had changed to a place in Whitmore Park.

We found the area on the new map, and there was a Charger in a driveway with its lights on. We walked up the icy driveway and I waved at the guy in the driver seat. He lowered the window and I asked if he’d been at Trifons, he said no. I asked if anyone else was home, “No?”.

I started to walk down the driveway to try the next house over, but then asked the guy to see more of the coat on the floor of his backseat. He reached around, grabbed it, and said he didn’t know whose coat that was.

It was my coat!

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Kramer Blvd

Plague Update: POStmedia Aims To Kill

Posted on by John Klein

The Gazette published an absolute turd of an article. Here are some of the lowlights:

“Outside of a health-care institution, people aren’t really thinking about transmission,” he said. “In a health-care institution where people are thinking about it, your chance of transmission is much lower. You go to an indoor playground … people aren’t wiping down surfaces.”

Ohhh, “thinking” about cleaning is a mitigation, eh? In that case, I mitigate dirty dishes in the sink every single day.

“Probably the most important (thing) is to have you and your child wash their hands … Rubin added that staying far away from people who are coughing can also help, though that isn’t always possible when a facility is busy.”

“6 feet” doesn’t work for airborne diseases, any more than non-smoking sections worked in restaurants in the 1980s.

“Giving them accessibility of masks and hand-washing stations and things like this,” he said. “This is far from being foolproof action, but at least it will considerably lower your risk of infection.””

The free masks offered are inferior surgical mask products not used by intelligent people if they have respirators available.

[Photo of maskless Dr. washing hands.]
Dr. Karl Weiss, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026.


“Washing your hands “will considerably lower your risk of infection” in waiting rooms, says Dr. Karl Weiss, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Jewish General Hospital.

Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal GazettWhen it comes to milder airborne viruses, it’s not the end of the world if a child is infected since they’re developing their immune systems, Weiss said.”

“In the aftermath of COVID-19, a cough in a medical waiting room may still set off alarm bells for Quebecers —”

Aftermath? That comes after the pandemic, but we’re still in it.

https://x.com/BarryHunt008/status/2021271645843800194

Plague Update: Surviving or Thriving?

Posted on by John Klein

I really don’t know how people do it. How does the average person expect to survive the next decade? The last 6 years have gone terribly, and there is no expectation of improvement. Most Canadians have been infected by COVID-19 at least once, especially children. Given what we’ve been able to confirm about the harm it does, it’s not unreasonable to expect kids today who survive to adulthood will experience dozens of infections.

Without government guiding sweeping implementation of clean air regulations, what’s to stop schools, hospitals, airlines, and public buildings from amplifying the problem as they have for the last 6 years?

https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/some-of-the-worst-mistakes-you-can-ever-make-as-a-prepper/

There are a lot of ways to prepare for the future, but continuing to get infected by COVID-19 is perhaps the worst way to not prepare. Not only is there about a 1.2% fatality rate in Canada, that’s a low estimate given how many people die soon after their COVID-19 infection, but are not counted as a COVID death. If you’re too weak to work, or to care for yourself, government is unlikely to do it in a future full of systemic collapse.

Update:

Pasting Facebook is blah

Posted on by John Klein

Nothing says trust the antiwaxxer more than them saying they hadn’t heard of a form of heart disease before they thought they could blame the COVID vaccine for it.

Below also is my observation that Facebook’s friend suggestion algorithm has taken a dark turn in the last week or so.

Jon Klein:

There has been a definite change to Facebook friend suggestions. It used to be suggesting people I almost know, men and women, but now it’s scantily clad women who I don’t…

Clarke Plews

Also noticed this

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Rob Dresser

While we’ve got their undivided attention, it’s time to make it stick.

Former Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, is/was a devoted Americanophile (that’s a real word). If it was American he swooned.

Now he’s flipped. Harper sees the United States as Canada’s greatest threat. He’s even advocating a full-blown tariff war with Washington.…

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Robert Frank ·
[posts a hoax meme of Blacklock’s Reporter claiming vaccine problems locked away for 15 years in Canada by government order]

James Bugden

I’ll check back in 15 years to see if there was anything to see here.

Jenn Quinn

Welp… nothing to see here folks 😅

Jason Mcdonald

My god. Is there anyone raising this in parliament or courts or anything like that ?

Neal Mukherjee

Jon Klein you know the vaccine against 😅🤣😂 Covid didn’t prevent infection or transmission, right? On a seperate note, the first time I heard of the term Myocarditis was several months after the introduction of the 1st dose of the Covid vaxx.

Jon Klein

Neal Mukherjee Just because you’re not well educated about heart diseases, you know more than doctors that all recommend vaccination?

It prevents some infections and then transmission, but there are so many variants, it’s like trying to protect yourself from influenza this year with a vaccine from 2 years ago.

Neal Mukherjee

Jon Klein I guess we’ll find out in 15 years if the vaccine against 😂🤣😅 Covid caused more harm than good. Nothing says trust the science like hiding reports on vaccine safety for 15 years.

Neal Mukherjee

Nothing says safe and effective like hiding the report on vaccines for 15 years.

Shelagh Greenaway

This is very strange.