{"id":698,"date":"2007-12-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:24:19","slug":"running-back-to-saskatoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Running back to Saskatoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/cpress\/20071219\/ca_pr_on_na\/statscan_population\">is reporting<\/a> that Saskatchewan has replaced Alberta as Canada&#8217;s fastest growing province.<\/p>\n<p>The province has returned to a population of more than a million for the first time in 6 years.<\/p>\n<p>As a provincial government owned agency, Sasktel operates with an interesting mandate from its shareholder. It has built out high speed internet to every community of more than 200 people and it has invested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.sk.ca\/news?newsId=5eddbf37-7a3e-4b44-b57b-d57aabdbf8e1\">upgraded<\/a> digital wireless in communities that are off the beaten track.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that some of growth is due to what might be called an Alberta halo effect.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the return to population growth has been enabled by the communications infrastructure put in place by Sasktel, which has been a leader in rolling out a consumer <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1264\">quintuple<\/a> play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada is reporting that Saskatchewan has replaced Alberta as Canada&#8217;s fastest growing province. The province has returned to a population of more than a million for the first time in 6 years. As a provincial government owned agency, Sasktel operates with an interesting mandate from its shareholder. 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