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Saskatchewan Seat Projections

From ThreeHundredEight.com A couple of interesting things to note. The Saskatchewan Party is leading in Saskatoon Eastview and in Meewasin which puts Judy Junor and Frank Quenell’s seats at risk.  Both are longtime NDP MLA’s and former cabinet ministers.  Quenell has pulled difficult elections out in the past and the 17% Liberal support could easily [...]

Column: Focus Campaign On Real Issues

My latest in The StarPhoenix When I was growing up, the United States was larger than life. It was the peak of the Cold War and we thought at the time only Ronald Reagan, the United States military and our Canada Cup hockey team was standing between us and the evil Soviets. Fast forward and [...]

Cutting our own wrists

Back in 2005 I saw a link to a review of Jared Diamond’s book Collapse on the New Yorker website. Malcolm Gladwell was telling the story of Norse settlers coming to Greenland a millennium ago and I found the story fascinating. Even to the Norse, Greenland was not a place that one would want to [...]

Coming up this week…

It was a productive weekend and I was able to do a fair amount of both reading and writing.  I will be rolling out my extended series on the inner city of Saskatoon this week (Monday night as well as on Wednesday and Thursday mornings) as well as three new episodes of the series next [...]

NDP and our Mental Health Issues

This headline was actually inspired by this column but fit because I was able to sit down with my local MLA Cam Broten and the NDP Health Critic Judy Junor on Tuesday to talk about the increase in mental health issue i see while at work.  It was a good way to spend some time [...]

What’s Wrong with SCN?

A couple of months ago the Saskatchewan Party announced that they were going to shut down or sell the Saskatchewan Communication Network.  I wanted to be really upset over this but I just can’t. After almost 20 years of flipping to the SCN regularly, I have enjoyed a total of three local shows.  I watched [...]

Lost

I was just reading about Serge LeClerc today and while the story doesn’t have much interest for me, this caught my eye. Yates said there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the case, including what happened to the laptop computer LeClerc had been using last year. Wall said in the legislature that the [...]

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 [...]