Plague Update: Saskatchewan Abandoned by Sask Party

Saskatchewan is a sad place to be right now, while the Premier is off on a second job farming when not golfing, a Cabinet Minister was on vacation in the USA, and the Health Min hasn't been seen since he berated reporters for covering the crisis.#COVID19SK https://t.co/FWE4iAoxFX

— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) September 27, 2021

Interesting fact: Saskatchewan’s Minister of Health Paul Merriman’s last public appearance was over a month ago, on August 25. Then, he said the province was entering its fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. #covid19sk

— Omayra Issa (@OmayraIssa) September 27, 2021

My tomorrow column today: Choosing combining over COVID a wrong move for Moe. #skpoli https://t.co/0W1rBp1vb0

— Murray Mandryk (@MMandryk) September 27, 2021

It’s almost like we have a caretaker government who doesn’t care to take care of us.

Plague Update: Oh No, Not Again

The election in Canada is on Monday, and the Conservatives are annoyed that HarperCon Kenney is trying to stop his province’s healthcare system from burning down completely by then.

A CPC candidate texted me during the announcement and said "Does the premier not understand the position this puts us in for the next four days"

— Elise von Scheel (@elisevonscheel) September 16, 2021

I fully believe that was the intention was to wait till Tuesday but couldn't because the Healthcare system wouldn't make it

— David Gallant (he/his) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 (@abguy09) September 16, 2021

I hope you have a long, hard, dark night of the soul because you have led this province burning to the ground.
Oh, and for god sakes, give all front lines workers a raise. And fire @shandro #abhealth #ableg

— Hannah Hamilton (she/her) (@iamhannah_h) September 16, 2021

And Saskatchewan’s numbers per capita are worse while Moe and Merriman and Duncan do nothing to Flatten the Curve or try to get us to #CovidZero.

Friendly Fire

Or war crime?

Our report from last night on the awful ISIS attack outside Kabul airport as families still search Kabul's morgues for their loved ones..

Many we spoke to, including eyewitnesses, said significant numbers of those killed were shot dead by US forces in the panic after the blast pic.twitter.com/ac5nUVeJ4x

— Secunder Kermani (@SecKermani) August 28, 2021

Breaking News: President Biden said another Kabul attack was “highly likely” in the next 36 hours, and that the U.S. retaliation for the bombing wouldn't be the last.

Follow for updates. https://t.co/KlIg5I8jdV

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 28, 2021

Climate Criminals Have Names

The climate criminals in the US Government have names, listed off by an Exxon lobbyist, but still they aren’t being held to account.

The world we live on is burning. Regina frequently has a red Sun in the sky from thick forest fire smoke, making us look more smoggy than Los Angeles.

How Secure Is Your Phone?

Your phone’s security is probably not too bad, aside from it being a tracking device. And especially when someone buys state-sponsored spyware to attack you and your network:

It's been four years since NSO's assurances that it only sold spying tools to democratic states to hunt terrorists were revealed as lies, when Citizenlab revealed that its weapons targeted Mexican anti-sugar activists (and their children).https://t.co/30SVAd18Sq

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— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) July 27, 2021

Sask Party Breaks Federal Election Law

The despicable election attack ads the SaskParty Saskatchewan Government ran to help the federal Conservative Party circumvent federal election spending limits, were not legal. Further, the SaskParty is partly funded by oil and gas companies, money that cannot legally be accepted by the Conservative Party as it would be considered a form of criminal corruption. In their effort to exploit a loophole to send that money to other SaskParty donors like Rawlco Radio, to buy attack ads, the SaskParty screwed up and broke the law. Their response was to say it was really hard to figure out the 3rd party election ad spending rules.

The #SaskPotty run by Bundy is rife with donations that would also be illegal if the party was federal or in most other provinces.#skpoli #corruption #Petrostatehttps://t.co/7HD7w1iYdt https://t.co/WTyEcOq99w

— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) July 23, 2021

SaskPower’s War On Solar

Today the utility described the home generation of 16MW of solar and wind power as "insignificant." The clear message: solar and solar customers are a problem to be managed. Not an opportunity. 3/3 #RenewableElectricity #skpoli

— David 🇨🇦 Kyle (@DavidKyleSK) June 25, 2021

SaskPower told me last decade that their Y2K test of solar panel technology at the time convinced them there was no utility future for solar. Never mind that the tech was already more than a decade old at that point, and costs had dropped while efficiency of the panels had risen significantly.

Over 4 years ago they promised to build a 10MW array of solar panels. They’ve yet to deliver. Instead, they dealt a body blow to the solar installer industry in the province by cancelling Net Metering and replacing it later with Net Billing. This is in large part to the governing party of Saskatchewan taking corporate donations that would be illegal in the rest of Canada.

The Crown utility has lied about solar technology on Twitter even. They can’t be trusted, and that’s a damn shame, because we could be at a near 100% solar grid by now if we started building 6 years ago like I and others proposed.

“Isn’t Who We Are”

A Radio Ad Running in Saskatchewan Says Residential School Trauma Is a Myth, & I'm Pretty Sure No One's Noticed, Nevermind Concerned? https://t.co/rR813u866c

— Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert) September 23, 2018

Why are there Canadians willing to deny the Residential School system was a genocide perpetrated against Indigenous people of Canada? Maybe the top politicians saying this Isn’t Who We Are, and the paid radio ads have an impact on the Denialist psyche?

Did you want to update your comment from before, given 215 dead kids were discovered outside of a Residential School in the last few days?

— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) May 30, 2021

Welcome to Canada, where the remains of 215 Indigenous children are found at a former Kamloops residential school, but leaders struggle to accept that systemic racism is real and tell us that the use of the word “genocide” is controversial.

— Amit Arya (@AmitAryaMD) May 28, 2021

Hundreds of Kids Found Dead In Unmarked Graves

A normal country would declare several days of mourning after a mass grave of children was discovered.

— Nora Loreto (@NoLore) May 29, 2021

Canada is a normal settler-colonial country with a dark history of genocide against Indigenous peoples

Canada is still fighting Kamloops residential schools survivors, and their descendants, in court.

N2N was there in 2018 and they long suspected there were mass graves on the grounds of the former school. See our story below. Nothing has changed. https://t.co/l2c0CaWVRk

— Kenneth Jackson (@afixedaddress) May 28, 2021

The Minister doesn’t seem aware, or in charge since this is his tweet upon the discovery of the graves:

pic.twitter.com/u5Q2wOuhiy

— RiverRising (@The12fthOfNever) May 28, 2021

Maybe stop fighting survivors of these Residential Schools in court, Liberals?

Plague Update: Callous Government

Dr. Kyle, as he’s known on Twitter, wrote the Moose Jaw Independent paper. The COVID-19 Variants of Concern in the Moose Jaw area are shockingly bad, and the school division wants to open schools on Monday. They absolutely must not.

Gaslighting medical people with the SHA telling Moose Jaw schools Director that VoCs are "more transmissible in the home than in schools". That was just on the Moose Jaw news.
Eff!#CloseTheSchools #COVID19SK

— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) April 10, 2021

How's this for negligence?
While 300 SK doctors are demanding stricter measures to control variants, the SK Ministry of Social Services is FORCING foster parents to send kids to school in-person. @SKGov
@SaskAdvocate
#skpoli

— Safe Schools Saskatchewan Advocacy (@SafeSchoolsSask) April 9, 2021

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Wow. MLA @MattloveNDP on his feet beside me describing his concerns leaving his family to work in #yqr amongst unmasked colleagues given his diagnosis of immuno-compromised.

Scoffs and ridicule from the other side of the aisle, folks: I heard “stay home” and “whiner”. #skpoli

— Meara Conway (@mearaconwayNDP) April 8, 2021

We are being told by @SKGov @PremierScottMoe @MerrimanPaul that "our measures are working". On the other hand, according to this hospitalization index, SK is far worse off than any other province. @ryanmeili @mearaconwayNDP @MMandryk @LynnGiesbrecht pic.twitter.com/AT8hLuEeMq

— Dr. Thomas Hadjistavropoulos (@URHealthPsycLab) April 8, 2021

Still somehow disappointed hearing the Sask Party members heckle about 1 in 4 children living in poverty while @mearaconwayNDP give her budget address.

Strong leadership guys. Really classy to heckle about hungry children.

— Aleana Young (@AleanaYoung) April 9, 2021

Can't wait to see a bunch of CONs who put the economy before lives go to jail when the dust settles from all of this.

— 1VocalGuy (@1VocalGuy) April 10, 2021