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“They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

@hytteturIPASKEN @kris_sims @whodatguy55 Tell me you're not a teacher...

👨‍🏫$2.6 billion offer to Alberta teachers was fair Teachers would've started at $71,000/year & with 7 years experience $100,000+ 3,000 new teachers & 1,500 EAs $8 billion building 100+ schools PLUS: lots of days off, pension, benefits & job security 🚫Taxpayers are tapped out

@IsThisGreen @WSOnlineNews That shouldn't be a problem if appropriate funding follows! If private schools need large tuitions plus gov't $, fund public schools appropriately!

@WSOnlineNews And when public classroom sizes grow because of it, they’ll complain about that too.

MACPHERSON: Petition threatens independent school funding in Alberta westernstandard.news/opinion/macphe…

@Brian3675172382 @CarlaBeckSK Tell me you don't understand addictions - and let me guess: you're not against safe consumption if it's alcohol.

@CarlaBeckSK These people are junkies, the worst of the worst. I guess we should put them up in Hotel Saskatchewan eh Karen?

I thought the Coachman Inn was closed. I really did. Instead, the Sask. Party Government is actually overpaying this rundown, bedbug-infested motel to take in vulnerable people who have turned to social services for help. One person staying there yesterday told us they wouldn't wish the conditions inside on their worst enemy. We shouldn't treat people like this. Let me put a finer point on that — we shouldn't have a government that's OK with treating people like this. Every person deserves to live in safety and dignity. Not only is this bad use of taxpayer dollars — it's downright cruel and no way to build a strong province for the future. ctvnews.ca/regina/article…

@Dogger007 @CarlaBeckSK @TrueEager How about we start by reversing the decision to NOT pay landlords directly? The Sask party made The change claiming they want people to self-actualize. Such garbage.

@CarlaBeckSK @TrueEager Your right we should hand out more handouts and have the tax payers pay even more, great idea.

@ChetRipley18 @oscilloscoping @CarlaBeckSK Or honest.

@oscilloscoping @CarlaBeckSK You can. If you want to sound ineffectual.

@laurley13 @CarlaBeckSK Could have shared your missive without the bad language. Make politics nice again!

@CarlaBeckSK Yeah Carla, if he goes, you bitch he’s spending too much money, if he doesn’t go, you bitch he’s doing nothing! Can’t win with you, can he?

Scott Moe was the last Premier in Canada to respond to the Trump tariffs, and he's sure taken his sweet time responding to the Chinese tariffs too. We've repeatedly called for the Premier to make Saskatchewan’s case directly to Chinese officials along with the federal government, but I can’t help but ask: what took so long? Harvest is already underway.

@david_attisaas @johnrobertsFox Thank God there's only one!

@johnrobertsFox there is only one masculine man in this pic all others are feminine men

I covered the White House for more than a decade, and never witnessed a meeting like this.

@just_afellow @CarlaBeckSK Cant speak to other provinces but in SK, the NDP are the fiscally responsible gov't. I take it you've heard of Devine? Walk wasn't a lot better, and Moe? He's gotta go.

@CarlaBeckSK most of that extra spending was through covid... just like all other govt's. You, likely, would've spent even more (NDP tends to do that). So... Are you saying you would've been (& would be) more fiscally responsible?

Get this, even the Fraser Institute thinks Scott Moe is spending way too much of your money and delivering next to nothing in return. That's right, the Fraser Institute. They went so far as to tell Moe to take a page from the playbook of former Saskatchewan NDP Premier Roy Romanow. Even Scott Moe's own friends are sick of his fiscal mismanagement and failures to address the issues that matter most. fraserinstitute.org/commentary/pre…

@ChatterBox_Muse @dubsndoo Compromised a lot of people’s freedoms for their selfishness.

@dubsndoo Because they dared to live by their moral conviction. Because they dared to do what had to be done for freedom.

Did he assault someone? Nope Did he extort someone? Nope Did he threaten someone with violence? Nope Did he steal something? Nope Explain to me like I’m 5 years old why he should get jail time when all of the above offences rarely get prison sentences?

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@BethCharron1 @JustinDart82 We could stop subsidizing oil and gas - that’d pay for a lot of healthcare! Don’t reply unless you’re willing to post in your reply the subsidies, o&g profits, and benefits sure to include the subsidies to clean up abandoned oil wells.

Our tanking health care system that does not have enough tax payers to afford the quality of health care we had even decades ago? You think the half of our population actually paying taxes somehow has the additional means to pay for everyone to get a universal basic income? Are we eliminating welfare, disability and child tax credits/all credits in lieu of a base amount per person as tax payers cannot afford what we are already paying

If you’re Canadian, you have to see this. This isn’t just politics — this is real-life stuff. Senator Kim Pate just introduced Bill S-206 — a new push for Basic Income in Canada. This matters if you’ve ever felt stuck, burnt out, or like the system doesn’t see people like you. We already have universal healthcare. Now imagine a future where we also have income stability. Watch what happens next — and don’t let this one slide by. #UBI #Canada #S206 #WorkingClassVoices #FutureOfWork #CDNPoli

@kab98623152 @AngetheBrave72 @JustinDart82 Cause when/if you can’t work, you’re going to want a social safety net!

@AngetheBrave72 @JustinDart82 Yeah that's true. In my busy period (winter) I am up between 3:30 & 4:30 am and work all day in the cold, averaging 10 -12 hours. No stopping cause it's -40. Why do I want to do that to support some lazy ass that won't get up to go to work? F you and the horse you rode in on

@CBry14772 @AngetheBrave72 @JustinDart82 What industry do you work I? What’s your actual knowledge but organization? Check out how much private companies spend on admin. Compare to govt.

@AngetheBrave72 @JustinDart82 IF other programs were ended, cutting Govt to 25%, A public service requirement (Military, civilian or taxpayer), specified as a % of GDP...a cautious maybe.

@gordelliott99 @AngetheBrave72 @JustinDart82 Trying comedy out? That’s funny.

@AngetheBrave72 @JustinDart82 Nah. They move to the States where producers and earners are respected.

The north needs help. Time to bring in extra hands. Call your MLA. This kind of response is not helpful.

@Joe_Not_Exotix @JustBins That’s your guess or you know?

@JustBins 90 year lease with a clause that gives Semples company exclusive rights to be the only bar/pub and only liquor serving establishment on the REAL campus for the term of the lease?!?!?! Also - $6.00/sq ft rent for the first 10 years? That is less than half the going rate today!

Distillery at REAL to be taken over by company directed by Shaun Semple of Brandt Industries. Sports bar proposed. reginask.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileO…

@BeastChode69 @Joe_Not_Exotix @JustBins This isn’t all of real - just the distillery. Still loads of opportunities for REAL to cost us millions…

@AlexanderQuon Who owns the distillery…

A special Regina city council meeting set for June 3 will be about a lease agreement with YQR Distillery at the REAL District. Details will be in an agenda set to be released this afternoon.

@shirleyturnbull @Patsypiepie @MarcNixon24 Plenty of people alive who remember the Pass and Permit System that limited Indigenous people to travel or sell goods without the permission of the Indian Agent.

@Patsypiepie @MarcNixon24 Umm, Sixties Scoop, and the Indian Act is still hindering Indigenous communities, not to mention the countless of reservations without basic necessities…

Imagine being born in Canada… Living here your entire life… Your family’s been here for 400+ years—generation after generation. You’ve never known any other country. Then you’re told you can’t enter certain areas… Because only “Indigenous” people are allowed—for over 100 days