Saskjobs.com

After our dodgeball game tonight (which we resoundingly won), we went out for a team beer at a local pub to celebrate, as well as say farewell to one of our players (Hugo is moving back to Quebec). I was in the bathroom and on the door of the stall was an ad about how great jobs are in Saskatchewan, with a 'case study' of a company CEO who chose to move back to Saskatchewan and totally loves it.

While I don't have anything against Saskatchewan (except the fact that lots of people from Saskatchewan try to oversell it), it seemed obvious to me that Saskatchewan is desperate to stop the workforce drain from Sask to Alberta. It's pretty hard for Saskatchewan (ok, now I have another thing against that province - it's annoying to type out its name a lot of times!) to compete with Alberta for jobs, since there are so many out here and with such high wages. I figure they have started an advertising campaign to convince people to move back there, because it is cheaper to live (that's the angle they were selling in the ad). Is that enough to convince someone to leave their high paying job to move to Saskatchewan? Well, you can be the judge, I suppose, but I think it's unlikely. In any case, this actually seems like a pretty lame blog entry now that I'm done, but since I've already typed it up, I'll probably post it anyway.