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Rescuing Renewable Regina
When the City of Regina invited a climate change denier to their sustainable cities conference, it wasn't a mistake. It was part of a larger pattern of the City walking back its own goal to become 100 per cent renewable by 2050. -
CLC throws support behind locked-out Refinery Co-op workers
After Unifor National president Jerry Dias was arrested on the Refinery Co-op picket line, the president of the Canadian Labour Congress flew in to support locked-out Unifor 594 members. It comes almost exactly two years after a bitter split, when Unifor disaffiliated from the CLC. -
Three times P3s screwed over Saskatchewan
As Saskatchewan shows, when you allow private companies to make bank on the backs of the public, it’s the people who pay. -
On the Prairies, the drug crisis is not opioids, but meth
Almost everything about stimulants like meth is different from opioids. And Saskatchewan is woefully unprepared to care for the rising number of people seeking treatment for meth addiction. -
FreshCo contracts “a complete downgrade” for workers
As four Sask. Safeway stores convert to FreshCos, workers are looking at lower wages, fewer entitlements, and fewer benefits -
Regina’s 92-million-dollar problem
A crisis of underfunded social programs leads to an increased crime rate, which is used to justify ballooning police budgets. Activists are making the case for defunding the police. -
Does Saskatchewan need a citizen watchdog for the police?
A fatal police-involved shooting has prompted calls for Saskatchewan to create an independent citizen oversight body. But what if most civilian committees aren't made up solely of civilians at all? -
Northern forests on the chopping block
Logging has nearly quadrupled in the last 10 years, and northern residents are raising red flags about the pace of clear-cutting -
The sorry state of abortion access in Saskatchewan
From lack of access in rural and northern areas to an astonishing number of homegrown anti-abortion politicians, Saskatchewan is ground zero for attacks on reproductive rights. -
Saskatoon welcomes premiers with climate justice protest
While Canada's premiers visit Saskatoon, Treaty 6 territory, activists are camping out for four days in Kiwanis Memorial Park to urge action on climate change.