Saskatchewan
About Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada. It is bordered to the west by Alberta, to the north by the Northwest Territories, to the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States. Saskatchewan and neighbouring Alberta are the only landlocked provinces in Canada. In 2025, Saskatchewan's population was estimated at 1,266,234. Nearly 10% of Saskatchewan's total area of 651,900 square kilometres (251,700 sq mi) is fresh water, mostly rivers, reservoirs, and lakes.
On the show — 12 mentions total
In 1997, a town in Saskatchewan held a referendum on whether the end of a toilet paper should hang under or over the roll.
from 275: No Such Thing As A Squashed Microbe, 2019-06-28 at 00:35:09 · read transcript
Other times Saskatchewan came up
No. But we all say righto. He was so famous that towns named themselves after him. There were two towns in, I think, Michigan, which named themselves Rudyard and Kipling after him. There's a place in Saskatchewan called Kipling. That is an interesting place for us because it's the town where a Canadian blogger called Kyle MacDonald traded his way from a paperclip up to a house. Do you remember this guy?
No Such Thing As A Squiggly Pineapple, 2021-03-05 · listen
My favorite one, in 2006, a dozen people in a Canadian town, it's called Lida, in Saskatchewan. they posed naked in potholes on a local highway and then made a calendar, a nude calendar of themselves in these potholes to spread the message that they wanted the council to fix the potholes.
No Such Thing As A Deadly Birthday Cake, 2018-02-02 · listen
In 2011, a man dressed as Lady Godiva, and he rode through the Lancashire village of Holton to protest against new Haitian to M6 link road. My favourite one, in 2006, a dozen people in a Canadian town, it's called Lida, in Saskatchewan. They posed naked in potholes on a local highway and then made a calendar, a nude calendar of themselves, in these potholes to spread the message that they wanted the council to fix the potholes.
202: No Such Thing As A Deadly Birthday Cake, 2018-02-02 · listen
This is because of a legal case in Canada and Saskatchewan and there's, they have the system there where a legal case will set legal precedent, you know, that will be the one that they refer back to, and there's a legal case where a guy called Kent Mikkelbrough, a grain buyer, who.
513: No Such Thing As Upside-Down Space Rain, 2024-01-11 · listen
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