The view from Calgary (and the Toronto Star) “The NDP grassroots won’t even go door knocking anymore . . . the party only appeals to the mushy middle,” says Mitch Diamantopoulos, head of the journalism school at the University of Regina, a longtime activist and observer of Saskatchewan politics. For Diamantopoulos, the problems began in [...]
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Huskies Athletics cuts the Huskies Cheerleaders :: Cheerleaders pulled a bush league stunt and got what they deserved. I can’t say I will miss them. How much did it cost to distribute all of those Aol. disks in the 1990s? Corruption is worth than imagined in Quebec. The head of Quebec’s anti-collusion unit says he’s [...]
Doomsday for the NDP?
Take a look at these poll numbers for the upcoming election. Premier Brad Wall and the Saskatchewan Party are heading into next month’s election campaign with what may be a level of support unprecedented in the province’s political history, according to a new poll. The Praxis Analytics survey, conducted for the Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon [...]
The broadest boulevards this side of Paris
At least BHP has good taste in cities It says it would relocate the headquarters of the Potash division to Saskatoon, where its executives would live and raise their children. They could do worse — Saskatoon is a gracious and sophisticated city with the broadest boulevards this side of Paris, and the world-class University of [...]
We need to cut back
Back during the Devine era, I listened to Grant Devine give an impassioned speech about the deficit. The point was “yes we have a deficit but where do we cut back. You can’t close hospitals, you can’t have crumbling highways, you can’t cut essential services”. At the time the speech stuck with me (obviously as [...]
Deficits are Devine
Well it’s official, deficit financing on the scale not seen since the Devine era is back in Saskatchewan. The government of Saskatchewan is going to run a billion dollar deficit this year based on the fall of potash prices. As told by the Star Phoenix. The release of the government’s mid-year financial report Thursday shows [...]
No big suprise
The Saskatchewan NDP have elected Dwayne Lingenfelter as their new leader. Former deputy premier Dwain Lingenfelter was elected leader Saturday at the NDP’s annual convention. First elected to the legislature in 1978, he held several portfolios in the cabinet of former premier Roy Romanow. Lingenfelter left public life in 2000 to work with a Calgary-based [...]
