By: Jordan Twiss Last week, as Saskatchewan’s educators undertook work-to-rule actions, indefinitely withdrawing noon hour supervision and support for extracurricular activities, the odds of them reaching any sort of contract agreement with the Sask. Party government were rather bleak.
Read MoreSask. Party knows better, chooses to do worse
By: Jordan Twiss Policymaking is much like writing a novel. Unless the author of the policy (or novel) is some unprecedented virtuoso, it’s almost guaranteed their first draft will be a dud.
Read MoreMisinformation distracts from climate change
By: Jordan Twiss It’s easy, in trying times, to look back fondly on the past through rose-tinted glasses and view the present day in a more pessimistic light.
Read MoreSask. budget fails to meet province’s challenges
By: Jordan Twiss If you blinked at all last Wednesday (March 20), you may have missed all the excitement of the Sask. Party government’s delivery of Budget 2024-2025. Or what little excitement there was, at any rate.
Read MoreBudget season means dread for taxpayers
By: Jordan Twiss As March barrels inevitably towards April, Canadians across the country find themselves in the midst of the much-dreaded, but also much-anticipated, provincial and federal budget season.
Read MoreTeachers have good reason to doubt gov’t promises
By: Jordan Twiss What’s been most remarkable in the ongoing war of attrition between the province’s educators and the Sask. Party government, is the almost complete radio silence from Premier Scott Moe.
Read MoreSask. Party proves not all growth is positive
By: Jordan Twiss Of all the words in the English language (the Oxford dictionary estimates there are just over 170,000 in active use), growth is perhaps the favourite word of this Sask. Party government.
Read MoreWill desperate Liberals doom pharmacare?
By: Jordan Twiss Going by the latest polling numbers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal federal government’s odds of being re-elected with even a minority mandate are sitting squarely in “cross your fingers and toes and pray for a miracle” territory, perhaps even trending more towards “snowball’s chance in hell.”
Read MoreSask. Party obfuscation leaves taxpayers in dark
By: Jordan Twiss Despite the near-literal Mount Everest of evidence to the contrary, I still choose to believe that people, no matter their political leanings, only get into politics with the best of intentions.
Read MoreEducation Minister gets failing grade on honesty
By: Jordan Twiss Though the origins of famous sayings are notoriously tricky to pin down, Mark Twain is most often credited with coining the old adage “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
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