After posting what I believed to be a fair and balanced explanation of who I was voting for last year, I learned that there was no way you could announce and explain how you vote without alienating those on the other side. Voting always has been and probably always will be (for those of us [...]
Roy Romanow
What went wrong for the Saskatchewan NDP?
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 [...]
Brian Topp
Last week I got an invitation from Pat Atkinson to meet NDP leadership candidate Brian Topp at Amigo’s Cantina last night. I have always been fascinated by NDP leadership races, partly because they make absolutely no sense to me and I never know what is going to happen on the convention floor. (yeah I just [...]
The Shape of Things To Come
60 Minutes had a feature on the budget crisis’ that are happening at the state level. Stay with me on this one. "The most alarming thing about the state issue is the level of complacency," Meredith Whitney, one of the most respected financial analysts on Wall Street and one of the most influential women in [...]
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 [...]
