Andrew Stevens

Yeah, but it's historic. Think of how many stupid tweets were crafted on that very toilet.

Just another normal day around campus.

Sask. introduces tailgating bill, applies only to Roughriders home games | CBC News By the start of the 2026 CFL season, fans will be allowed to tailgate in a parking lot adjacent to the Roughriders stadium during home games.

In Saskatchewan, the Riders call the shots.

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No Kings / You'll never be king.

Duck Lake, Sask., residents launch campaign to protect town’s historic name | CBC News "Duck Lake Forever" is the name of a new campaign rallying residents to protect the name of their historic town. The movement began after the mayor announced plans last week to sell Duck Lake’s naming...

On the surface this is a fun story about what it means to sell the naming rights to a Sask village.

But it's really about the death of small town Saskatchewan, and the growing infrastructure deficit facing our communities. Desperate times.

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Dude looks like a confused old man searching for his car in the Home Depot parking lot.

Lost, or just behind the ketchup in the fridge?

Spike in Saskatoon homeless encampments ‘heartbreaking,’ NDP says | CBC News Saskatoon's fire department counted 1,248 homeless encampments through the first eight months of this year, which is just shy of the 1,255 counted in all of last year.

“It takes all three orders of government to [address encampments]"

The province's tone has finally changed. A former Minister of Social Service once said that he didn't believe homelessness was a real thing in SK. We're now at least 15 years behind.

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Excellent move.

Statement in Solidarity with Palestine As a union concerned with upholding human rights and academic freedom, URFA affirms our solidarity with the Palestinian people — scholars, workers, students, and all those enduring the violent suppres...

A dated, yet important, statement from my union (University of Regina Faculty Association).

More unions need to be voicing their support for Palestinian human rights.

@saskfedlabour.bsky.social @unifor.org @uswmetallos.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social

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YouTube video by The Electronic Intifada Gaza municipality, 55 years older than Israel, vows to rebuild the city, with Asem Alnabih

Imagine being a municipal leader and your job is to literally rebuild you city after it was destroyed in the wake of Israel's genocide.

In #YQR, parking is the big issue.

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SaskPower minister defends decision to keep coal plants running Jeremy Harrison reiterated the provincial government's plan to continue running SaskPower's coal generation stations past 2030.

“That (coal) is going to be the bridge by which we get to that nuclear future".

Hilarious and rich. So coal, which has been used as a source of energy for a couple of centuries, is now a "bridging" fuel?

Got it. We're cooked.

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It is, but don't expect anything different going forward. The addition of new officers, AROs, equipment, and service demands creates a ratcheting effect on expenses. Police budgets are not tethered to crime rates.

And that day is yesterday.

Roughriders president says team will look to Buffalo Bills for tailgating inspiration | CBC News The Saskatchewan Roughriders CEO applauds planned tailgating legislation, and says he'll look beyond Calgary and Edmonton, which prohibit alcohol, to find a model that works for Rider fans.

What's fun about this read is how the Riders act as though they own the stadium and the stadium grounds. They are mere tenants who usually pay rent.

This is Saskatchewan politics.

#YQR

@pdcityhall.bsky.social

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UPDATED: Five things to know about the City of Regina's 'refreshed vision for the future' A new set of strategic priorities for the City of Regina outlines a “refreshed vision for the future" over the next four years.

"Keeping taxes low" was the mantra for a better part of the last quarter century. It just means under-funding core services and necessary infrastructure projects.

No one wins, no one comes away happy.

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Canada should have partially nationalized or demanded a controlling share of auto companies that begged for bail-outs in 2008 onward. Same with corporations demanding EV handouts. There's no way public $ should go into the pockets of companies planning to move operations south.

I love municipal politics.

To be fair, it reads "considering" environmental sustainability. There's no commitment to do anything about it. So there's that.

My condolences to the new council.

Budgets are important and deserve a lot of attention. But mark my words, the public won't be more informed at the end. Unless you have a negative mill rate, few residents are going to be happy with their councillor.

Saskatchewan plans to introduce involuntary treatment, allow tailgating | CBC News The province plans to address homelessness and addictions in the newest session of the legislature, which kicked off Wednesday with the speech from the throne. It also plans to allow tailgating at Sas...

@alexanderquon.bsky.social Well played with this headline, sir.

Drive your truck to the game. Get drunk. Drive home. Blow a stop sign. Hit a car. No problem.

Addicted to meth? It's the camps for you.

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Haha! Yes, the classic SK reasoning...

Here's old Quebec City, where they get a lot of snow.

It's just absurd convention and an addiction to the status quo pressing us to widen roads that people will just complain about even more.

It’s the private, financial model of development that is largely to blame. In #YQR entire neighbourhoods have been cleared for development for years.

My favourite time of year.

Some workers are, but not most. I should be clear that the increase asked for by the SPS isn’t for wage increases alone, but overall operational costs.

@pdcityhall.bsky.social RE: your conversation about the street re-biggening.

This is a relatively wide street in Spain. Cars use it. People use it. Fire trucks use it. Bikes use it. And so it has been for over 1000 years.

#YQR should be forced to adjust to better land uses.

To be honest, there’s a good chance most people have jobs like that. In the sense that you likely work for an employer that has increased prices year over year for some time.

Saskatoon police budget increase reduced to 9.3 per cent | CBC News Saskatoon Police Chief Cam McBride says he’ll keep looking for savings. But he is still requesting a 9.3 per cent increase in next year's police budget, followed by a 5.4 per cent increase in 2027.

In #YQR, the RPS is the largest source of inflationary pressure on the city budget. Let that sink in. It's not the +1,000 civic workers. It's not the hundreds of millions we spend on infrastructure and services. It's the police.

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Last night our block was shut down during a SWAT operation unfolding next door.

This morning I battled traffic getting to and from Spirit Halloween on the east end.

No contest. I'd still prefer living next to gang members and enduring RPS operations than live in boring sprawl.

‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims

#YQR would often confuse disagreement and argument for dysfunction at the City Council table.

Meanwhile, right-wing Reform councils in the UK....

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