"For many rural communities, the local post office is not just a place to pick up mail – it is an essential service link for medications, government documents, farm business, small‑business commerce, and day‑to‑day communication.” leaderpost.com/news/local-n...

Nearly half of Sask. residents' donations in NDP leadership race went to Avi Lewis: theijf.org/brief/nearly...

You wanted to travel, build, light up the world,” cries Fossi in frustration. “And I helped you! We fossil fuels gave you heat, cars, lights, and factories. And now you say it’s all my fault?” www.desmog.com/2026/04/01/m...

Wait until they find out there is no outside of ideology….https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-education-bill-ideology-politics-classroom-9.7148982

A new CFNU report outlines the economic benefits of Canada’s public health care system, including growth, jobs, investment, innovation and equality. Read the full report, authored by economist Jim Stanford: nursesunions.ca/new-report-o...

www.thestar.com/business/can... pathologically unimaginative strategy of managed decline: “Canada Post is signalling that they’re going to go ahead with restructuring and they’ve been working with the government this entire period”

Polymarket bet on how quickly the Sask Party mentions “the Leap Manifesto.” I’m wagering by tomorrow.

Have questions about AI Data Centres? If you're in Regina, come hear CCPA Senior Researcher @simonenoch.bsky.social offer his take! April 2. @policyalternatives.ca

From @nolore.bsky.social - a very excellent take on the current state of affairs for the federal NDP. #CdnPoli

As the public becomes aware of the downside of AI data centres in their community, the need to tightly regulate the industry is becoming unavoidably clear. By @simonenoch.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“Attempting to tame such a powerful industry after the fact, as Americans are learning, is a difficult task. If we decide to invite this industry into our communities, it needs to be on our terms and under rules of our making.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

"On April 2, Dr. Simon Enoch, of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and adjunct in politics and international studies, will discuss the rapid expansion of data centres and the environmental and political backlash they have caused in North America." www.sasktoday.ca/regina-today...

“The petition was created by 14-year-old concerned Regina resident, Aya Merroche, and as of Monday had collected nearly 11,000 signatures.” Opposition to proposed AI data centre growing in Regina | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1174301...

"U.S. hospital chains, could seek entry into provincial health systems by successfully bidding on contracts for publicly funded and privately delivered (outsourced) surgeries and diagnostic procedures." ://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/do-trade-deals-put-public-health-care-up-for-sale/

@natashabulowski.bsky.social and I analyzed the locations of 38 proposed data centre sites in Alberta for this investigation. The results aren’t pretty. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/23/i...

No exaggeration, I think this is one of the most important stories in US health care. MAHA makes a lot more sense if you see it as a hostile takeover by the quackery industry

"And if we go into $200 a barrel oil territory like Iran has threatened, you’re going to see an awful lot of people that would never have even considered an EV thinking maybe it’s time.” www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/0...

The federal government’s decision to replace civil servants with AI could irreparably damage the already eroding trust Canadians have in government. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Health Canada also rated the Regina clinic as “non-compliant” after the inspection report summary. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yikes

Why are data centre developers targeting rural towns and communities in Canada? www.ctv.ca/shows/ctv-yo...

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

“Bell had five in-house lobbyists registered in Saskatchewan. In October, the number of Bell’s in-house lobbyists had grown to 11, including the president of Bell AI Fabric, Dan Rink.” Bell’s historic AI investment in Sask. followed record lobbying from company: theijf.org/brief/bell-a...

“there is very little in the budget that would constitute real protection from the economic insecurity, unaffordability and deterioration of public health care that has so many in this province anxious about their future.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Answering more questions about Regina’s proposed 300 MW Bit Barn (data centre) www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @policyalternatives.ca

One more question that needs to be asked: Bell says facility will be dedicated to sovereign AI compute, guaranteeing the data remains within Canada with strict chain-of-custody and residency requirements. But the 2 tenants CoreWeave & Cerebras are US companies and will supply compute infrastructure

Important to note that "closed loop cooling" doesn't necessarily mean water neutral. These systems also contain glycol, anti-corrosives and biocides (to prevent, rust, freezing and bacteria) that have to be "bled out" every month - where will those chemical go? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

300 MW could power 225,000 homes - its like adding a second City of Regina www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Scott Moe, Feb 24th: “A traditional data centre will employ four people: two electricians and two janitors … I’ll take a potash mine every day of the week.” Scott Moe March 6th, "This data centre is an economic boon to the province." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“An inquiry would help us understand whether the paid-plasma model puts those who are socio-economically precarious at potentially greater risk of injury or death.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

A guillotine is being constructed, by our own desperate peers, that will be capable of rendering today’s version of organized labor more or less obsolete.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-existen...

The SK government’s Patient First plan promises even more public money to for-profit health care companies, here’s how much we spent on them last year…..

THURSDAY: FOM's executive director, Chris Gallaway, will be joining @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social, @canadiansorg.bsky.social & @alonghurst.bsky.social for a webinar: Alberta is Not an Island: Bill 11 & the Attack on Canadian Medicare ➡️RSVP now to save your spot! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

SK gov is doubling down on funnelling public dollars to for-profit surgical facilities In the last fiscal year, gov paid out more than $14m to a private-equity owned chain Using public $$ to build a for-profit industry paves the way for two-tier health care, like we're seeing in Alberta

Saskatchewan’s Patient First health plan still leaves the door open to for-profit services. By @simonenoch.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #skpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Expansion of for-profit surgeries will unfortunately overshadow some of the better aspects of this plan re: new training, recruitment and retention. patientsfirst.saskatchewan.ca

“As the owners of the resource, Albertans should get the lion’s share of those profits...And the way to do that is to introduce a windfall profits tax on top of the royalties that oil companies pay in exchange for the right to exploit publicly owned assets.” rabble.ca rabble.ca/labour/alber...

"the barrister acting for the Zong’s owners illustrated that point bluntly thus: ‘What is this claim that human people have been thrown overboard? This is a case of chattels or goods. Blacks are goods and property; it is madness to accuse these well-serving honourable men of murder.’"

Looking more and more like we may be getting a Saskatchewan version of Alberta’s Bill 11. Could be part of the upcoming budget.

Data centres are moving in. Communities should read the fine print By @simonenoch.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew @policyalternatives.ca troymedia.com/technology/d...

“Expect Alberta to continuously test the federal government for weakness, using moves like this to inform their approach at the negotiating table,”

Fox says the parents caught in this sudden change from the province will now pay four times that amount at her day care, with some other daycares charging well above that. www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/ar...

Bell Canada announced it plans to build an AI data centre campus south of Regina. A flurry of questions are now being asked: What kind of data centre? How will it be powered? Will it use a ton of water? @simonenoch.bsky.social weighs in. @policyalternatives.ca www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

“It isn’t a stretch to claim, as Malm and Carton do, that an actual energy transition—of the sort that Fressoz shows has never occurred—would challenge the basic power structures of global capitalism and geopolitics.”