Also, glad the Premier decided to give an exclusive interview to that bastion of journalistic integrity, Rebel News.

If this is treachery, then it is just compensation for having to be terrorized by nightly images of fires in Tonawanda courtesy of Buffalo Eyewitness News for my entire childhood in Southern Ontario.

We all thought it’d be the easy button,” Nielsen said. “And that’s just not what happened.” www.reuters.com/business/bus...

In October, Second Sons mounted several demonstrations outside CBC offices in Regina and Ottawa, holding signs that read “CBC Hates White People.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Up close, this plan is more than an environmental or climate disaster. It simply does not make economic sense and would require massive capital costs that the industry itself does not want to pay.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The Canada Revenue Agency's chatbot mostly generates wrong answers and is expensive. "The agency says the bulk of cost is salaries ($13.67 million), though that doesn’t include costs related to employee benefits and travel. Another $3.21 million was spent on IT consultants for the project."

It’s not really Christmas until Teddy Ruxpin berates you for failing to follow the Mass Line. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Unfortunately, the government did not create a postal bank when it ought to have done so. The second best time to start a postal bank is right now.' @policyalternatives.ca

In addition to @pauldechene.bsky.social excellent piece on what a bargain Regina Transit (RT) is, is what a success it has been. RT recorded 7,368,050 boardings in 2019 or 614,000/month on avg. In 2024 RT recorded 9,548,000, or 795,000/month, 2 million more rides! queencityib.com/blog/2025/12...

“These aren't charities. They're not altruistic organizations. Why would a tech company want to allow their employees to work for the government and pay 100 per cent of their salary..." — Simon Enoch at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...

AI companies will be paid a portion of the savings from claims they deny or, as the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction plan puts it, “compensated based on a share of averted expenditures.” www.kuow.org/stories/thou...

Ottawa's budget bill wants to end free postage for people who are blind www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/08/n...

With so much talk of cuts to the City budget - here is what we spend versus other comparable cities on the same services. 1. We spend the most per capita on police services

“Which raises an obvious question: why ignore an approach that works almost everywhere else? Canada is late to this shift but not too late to learn from it.” www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025...

Geneviève Bergeron, 21 Hélène Colgan, 23 Nathalie Croteau, 23 Barbara Daigneault, 22 Anne-Marie Edward, 21 Maud Haviernick, 29 Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31 Maryse Laganière, 25 Maryse Leclair, 23 Anne-Marie Lemay, 22 Sonia Pelletier, 28 Michèle Richard, 21 Annie St-Arneault, 23 Annie Turcotte, 20

Cuts won’t save Canada Post and mail won’t pay the bills. But adding banking services at post offices might turn things around. By @rromard.bsky.social and @simonenoch.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca troymedia.com/politicslaw/...

"If Doug Ettinger, president and CEO of Canada Post is sincere in his desire to “modernize” the postal service, Canada Post must follow the example of the most successful postal providers around the world and invest in diversifying its services." www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

While we can excuse the ignorance of the public as it grapples with this novel technology, it is difficult to be as sympathetic to a big 4 consulting firm that has staked its future on supposedly knowing more than the rest of us about how AI can be deployed www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“It can take as long as six weeks to receive in-patient addiction treatment in Saskatchewan, according to data obtained from the Ministry of Health. The data obtained by CBC News appears to contradict the claims of Lori Carr, the government’s minister of mental health and addictions.”

“In a just world, where the career of a political pundit was somehow tied to his ability to analyze politics, this would be an extinction-level event for these morons.” stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...

A few points to challenge the Realtors Association arguments against rent control. Both the realtors and the government love to cite one specific CMHC study - but let's look at what that study actually says. 1/5 leaderpost.com/opinion/lett...

David Eby has the chance to do the funniest thing ever….

According to an Order in Council former Regina mayor Sandra Masters has been hired by Premier Scott Moe's office as a deputy chief of staff for communications. She'll have a salary of $14,221 a month. (That's significantly more than she ever made as mayor) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“If you didn’t know what the old Brit left was capable of, you might assume Your Party was an MI5 op designed to ritually humiliate socialists.” www.patreon.com/posts/is-it-...

I'll be on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social's Just Asking today (alongside @rjcsmith.bsky.social) to talk pipelines, climate and the future of the Canadian economy. We're taking calls from across the country at 4pm ET! Join us! www.cbc.ca/radio/justas...

This is the real question, has anti-Ottawa rhetoric made it impossible for Smith to satisfy her base? If so how does she pivot to blame Ottawa if no private pipeline investment comes forward? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why is the SK govt allergic to rent control as an affordability policy? www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Even if Carney is calling Smith’s bluff here, any bets on how soon the UCP starts demanding a govt-built (or heavily subsidized) pipeline once they realize there is no business case for this project?

Publishing this list has created a mobilized coalition of community groups opposed to cuts, but also focused the entire budget narrative on austerity, which will win out? leaderpost.com/news/local-n...

“The results were equally bleak. Of the 70 wells he tested, 68 violated the safety threshold, with an average concentration of nitrates close to four times the federal limit.” thefern.org/2025/11/the-...

nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/22/o... “We went to Shopify and said, 'Can you help us redesign this process?' Somewhat embarrassingly, they came back in 48 hours and said, 'Do this.' We looked at it for three months and then we did what they said," he said to laughter in the room.

For 2025, the Regina Police Service by itself represents 26% of the overall mill rate increase. In fact, just three entities, the RPS, Economic Development Regina and REAL combine to account for over half (4.59%) of this year's 8.5 percent mill rate.

As Regina's City Council considers across-the-board austerity, important to note that the Police Operating Budget has increased every year - from $71.6 million 10 years ago to $116.1 this year - a 62% increase. Why is the RPS immune to the calls for cuts that other city services are subject to?

“Incident raises questions about whether ‘toxic culture’ persists at Regina training centre.” theijf.org/rcmp-cadet-s...

My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push. Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

An awful lot of these departments claiming AI will reduce their costs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Following Mandryk’s departure, the newspapers have published just four columns focused directly on Saskatchewan government policies as of Nov. 1. One was penned by a University of Saskatchewan finance student and three by the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation.” j-source.ca/no-room-for-...

I believe this what Lenin meant by “dual power.”

“Applauding the prime minister too much would diminish his utility as a catch-all villain that can be blamed for every misfortune that befalls Alberta and Saskatchewan.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“This budget contains a poison pill of deep funding cuts, the extent of which hasn’t been witnessed since the Harper cuts of 2011 to 2014.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

“The problem is Alberta and Saskatchewan have adopted a worldview that says that's simply not necessary, which forces the feds to bring out the stick … which sets us up for a constitutional showdown,”

A beautiful, moving essay on resistance from Joan Scott www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

The feds will likely quietly “sunset” programs as part of their cost-cutting in the Nov 4 budget. @davidmaccdn.bsky.social examines 84 federal departments that may rely on saving money by letting hundreds of programs disappear when their funding runs out www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

WATCH: Sask. physician blasts province’s plans for involuntary addictions treatment www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Flores said that “questions remain about the wider effects of criminalizing harm reduction supplies.” She expressed concern about whether the act serves as a stepping stone to a “forced treatment” approach to addictions care from the province. leaderpost.com/news/local-n...

In the newest edition of the Monitor from @policyalternatives.ca "Western Canadian politicians have not been mere spectators as the flames of western discontent have gathered strength... No, they are the arsonists." By @simonenoch.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

With SK being lobbied to build these here, we are expecting volatile fresh water supplies on SK to provide more irrigation, cool reactors, expand mining & fracking, satiate growing populations and slake AI thirst? www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...