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Sask. NDP Leader Ryan Meili on the campaign trail earlier this month. Image: Ryan Meili/Twitter
Saskatchewan NDP's 'play it safe' approach fails in provincial election
Jim Harding | If the NDP ever wants to govern Saskatchewan again, it will have to build a new coalition that can embrace the key issues of the day.
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Scott Moe on the campaign trail on October 7, 2020. Image: Scott Moe/Twitter
What was Saskatchewan's media doing when it wasn't reporting on Scott Moe's driving record?
David J. Climenhaga | Saskatchewan's media has had at least since 2016, when a 1992 charge surfaced, to ask further questions about the premier's driving record.
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Sask. NDP Leader Ryan Meili gives a press briefing in the lead up to the province's 2020 election. Image: Ryan Meili/Twitter
Can the Saskatchewan NDP catch up with the future?
Jim Harding | Saskatchewan is today known as an "open for business" resource-exporting province, and the Saskatchewan NDP clearly doesn't know what to do.
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Brad Wall, Saskatchewan's premier (Photo: Saskatchewan Party/ Facebook).
Brad Wall hoist with own petard as Saskatchewan climbs down from embarrassing licence plate war
David J. Climenhaga | The New West Partnership is not without its good points, as it turns out. At least it managed to silence Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall for a few minutes ahead of his departure Saturday.
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Larry Hubich
What's up with Brad Wall's bizarre War on Licence Plates?
David J. Climenhaga | Premier Brad Wall has until Jan. 27, when his resignation takes effect, to try to skate through this mess. After that, some other Sask Party premier will have to carry the can.
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Brad Wall. Photo: DanielPaquet/Wikimedia Commons
It was wall-to-wall Brad Wall as premier exits, stage right, before wheels fall off Saskatchewan Party bus
David J. Climenhaga | At 52, Brad Wall is still a young man. So he'll probably find a way to continue to be a public nuisance.
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Jason Kenney. Image: Flickr/mostlyconservative
Keep an eye out for the 'Certified Kenney Fact'
David J. Climenhaga | If we accept UCP leadership candidate Jason Kenney's arithmetic, the Saskatchewan NDP appears to have wrecked the province's economy two years before it was elected!
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Premier Brad Wall. Image: Flickr/University of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan credit rating downgraded for second time by Standard & Poor’s and all we hear are crickets
David J. Climenhaga | Wednesday was the longest day of the year, and Standard & Poor's chose the summer solstice to downgrade Saskatchewan's credit rating from AA+ to AA.
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Photo: DanielPaquet/Wikimedia Commons
Inclusion of 1905 act in Constitution means Brad Wall's 'Notwithstanding Clause' gambit is no slam-dunk
David J. Climenhaga | In the short term it looks very much as if the Saskatchewan government will need to be in court appealing the ruling if Premier Brad Wall hopes to keep it from taking effect.
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Alison Redford (David Climenhaga photo)
Two by-elections, three probes, and plenty more: All the Alberta political news that's fit to print
David J. Climenhaga | Conservatives motor to easy by-election wins in Calgary; third inquiry clears Alison Redford; Brad hits the Wall; and Kenney fink-call plan keeps falling flat.
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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall
Does Saskatchewan's mean-spirited budget mean Brad Wall is eyeing the exit?
David J. Climenhaga | What will those Alberta politicians who insist sales-tax-raising Brad Wall of Saskatchewan is Western Canada’s “real leader” say now?
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Jim Stanford
Others sure to suffer as Sudden Apocalyptic Deficit Syndrome strikes affluent, older, white males from Saskatchewan
David J. Climenhaga | With the economic case for austerity pretty well universally discredited, you have to look to the underlying motives of conservatives like Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.