Saskatchewan Quotes

• The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born

  Stephen Leacock

  Wheat, Lord, Economy

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.46, University of Toronto Press

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• There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

  Joni Mitchell

  Night, Russia, Texas

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• Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

  Stockwell Day

  Religious, Sex, Government

  Government Orders: Civil Marriage Act, www.ourcommons.ca. May 3, 2005.

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• Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.

  Hal Borland

  Moving, Air, Wind

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• On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

  Stompin' Tom Connors

  Song, Vancouver, Albums

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• I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.

  Tommy Douglas

  Mother, Children, Lying

  Tommy Douglas' maiden speech at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, February 11, 1936.

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• To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre of Excellence. Training skilled workers and increasing productivity and innovation are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of Saskatchewan, and Western Canada.

  Michelle Rempel

  Government, Innovation, Growth

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• Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, College, Garden

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• It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs.

  John Robert Colombo

  Dog, Tree, Dry

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• Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Cancer, Birth Defects

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