Conservative apologists say that Saskatchewan isn't a very racist or misogynistic place because overall people here are good. And yet our top political leader killed a mother with his truck, and didn't spend a day in jail for it, nor for his drunk driving charges.
Then he went out of his way to avoid meeting with a peaceful protester asking for his government to address a suicide crisis, from the same parking lot the Premier happily met Yellow Vest oil terrorists in. This was after the Premier tweeted a Confederate flag.
If we wanted to disprove the idea that Saskatchewan is a backwater, it would go a long way to have elected a doctor or an organic farmer to lead the governing party, instead of one with Ministers who vacation in the US during the pandemic, while their party takes oil $$$. #skpoli
I'd like to get back to being proud of my province and seeing the disgusting bits like ignorance, apathy, misogyny, racism, and greed be diminished. That's not possible with Premier Moe in charge, he's toxic. Everything he's touched professionally turns to absolute crap.
Reminded just now that #SlowMoe expressed displeasure at Biden being elected President, he wanted to work with Trump. You know, the Republican who led an insurrection against the Congress?
I've lived nearly all my life in Sask, and all of my short lived death here too. When I die for good next time, I'd like to be able to say that I left this place more fair, more kind, and more livable, but that's simply not possible when half of my provincial neighbours want Moe.
The governing party taking oil & gas money, while they change solar power regs to kill small businesses doing solar installs, is completely legal in Saskatchewan. Doesn't matter to half the electorate that it looks crooked AF, and it is.
We remain a global leader in pollution.
Correction, it was months after the *Xenophobes 4 Oil* rally when he tweeted the flag of the #GOPterrorists and their Confederate forebears.
In fairness he wanted to support extra-government charitable funding for the health system he underfunds. cbc.ca/news/opinion/u…
And in fairness to me for mixing those two events up chronologically, it was in 2019, and who can remember details from 80 years ago?
Saskatchewan has the same problem, as does Ontario and Manitoba.
So you want to change the world for the better?
A Saskatchewan version:
Step 1: turn 18 because you can't vote otherwise. Spend the first 18 years of your life without political influence unless you're an unusual character involved in party politics, student council and activism.
If you're not 18 this year, you're probably too late to take the lazy vote-only route. You have to take the lead like Greta.
Step 2, you write the local newspaper to express your concerns about there being less than #ElevenYears left to make at least 6.5% / year reductions to carbon emissions if we want to have a hope of surviving the climate crisis.
Your edited letter appears next to a columnist