OurSask Celebrates One Year!

Time flies when you're having fun, meaning the next year is going to go even faster... cause we're headed for a provincial election.

There have been multiple police investigations into men criminally harassing me, including a freaking rural Saskatchewan Lutheran Church pastor and eventually I had to leave the country to get here… but here we are indeed. 😊

Let’s take a walk down Memory Lane, back to the night of November 7, 2011.

The Sask Party had just essentially wiped out the NDP, meaning the government’s Official Opposition was decimated.

Then the culling of Saskatchewan newsrooms began.

Since 2011, swaths of reporters from both the province’s major newspapers and virtually all of Saskatchewan’s mainstream broadcast newsrooms were either let go as a cost-saving measure, or saw the writing on the wall and left to pursue options in more stable media markets (aka Ontario).

Combine those empty newsrooms with a paltry NDP Opposition and you are not getting the information you require to make important decisions - like how to participate in democracy - from the mainstream media in Saskatchewan anymore.

I mean, I just showed you that in 2017 the Star Phoenix and Leader Post simply stopped reporting on one of the Sask Party’s most significant operational strategists, who has multiple corporations that hold all kinds of government contracts.

It’s impossible to live and work in Saskatchewan and write about the Sask Party government at the same time, because the Sask Party and its proxies are incredibly vindictive. They have instilled so much fear of speaking out in this tiny, glorified smalltown of a province, in part by making me the poster child for what happens if you do… that nobody does.

This is not easy work. It’s mentally exhausting. It’s personally risky. It’s meagre income.

But I’m still doing it, because the path Saskatchewan is on is so troubling.

Without any light shed on that path today, the Saskatchewan of tomorrow is going to be far worse, with crumbling public services and rampant unethical, entitled and shocking behaviour from elected officials, even from Cabinet Ministers.

We can re-establish our values without going backwards, but we must be clear on the truth about our present reality before we can change it.

My plan is to keep lowering the price of this Substack, as and when its subscription audience grows to a point where I can live my life somewhat comfortably and preferably in Saskatchewan again some day.

We’re not there yet. That’s okay, we’ll keep going.

It’s been one-year since I launched this Substack, meaning many of you are coming up for annual renewal.

To say thank you for your kindness and loyalty I want to offer you a discounted annual membership renewal, reducing the price back down to around the price you paid when you joined.

This offer will be valid for 7 days, or until April 25, 2023.

Here’s the link again for the promo:

You are my core audience; you’ve stuck with me through thick and thin. I spent a lot of years under public attack and I’ve been transparent (and very imperfect) in how I’ve processed that. Your notes of encouragement, your kind words when you know I’m down - please know that it means a lot, even when I’m grumpy on Twitter.

The year ahead promises to be one of the most important in Saskatchewan history, as it will include the runup to the next provincial election, or even include the election itself.

We’ve established that under Scott Moe, the rules of democracy and even those necessary to uphold the most basic civil society in Saskatchewan have gone out the window. All Moe’s Sask Party wants is more: more money, more power, more corrupt personal gain.

So, I hope you take advantage of this offer so we can stick together over these crucial next twelve months.

If you’re not up for renewal, an appeal: as much as your subscriptions are vital to keeping me going, the fraction of my audience that regularly donates a bit of money over and above their subscription is what is keeping me afloat lately.

If you value what I do and want to see more of it accessible for all, you can support me with a donation. I accept etransfers at tammyrobert0123@gmail.com.

(You can make the required password my surname, or the name of our province etc.)

I’ve had a few of you apologize for only sending a few dollars, which some likely couldn’t even afford. Please don’t ever be sorry, because I am so grateful for all your support in whatever form it’s received.

Because getting this work right is both time-consuming and more recently, incredibly expensive.

Expensive, because the documents required to backup what I’m telling you, which is often unbelievable, costs a lot of money. At six to ten dollars a pop, researching one Sask Party insider like Grant Kook, who is connected to an copious amount of long, obstructive shareholder chains, alone has cost hundreds of dollars to untangle.

Overall I’m thousands of dollars of investment into the research into Sask Party Insiders and I’m not nearly close to done. There are many more Grant Kook-types in Saskatchewan whose stories need to be told, whether they like it or not.

Time-consuming, because getting it right is simply integral to what I’m doing. Publishing is key to increasing my subscription numbers, but I can’t publish as fast as I’d like to because my efforts in ensuring accuracy are necessary but extensive.

Finally, I try to publish what I consider to be my most important stories - information everyone needs to know - for free.

Thanks to the growing OurSask community, I’m able to:

• tell stories you’re not going to hear otherwise,

• challenge Sask Party propaganda-driven narratives,

• and provide space for Saskatchewan residents who know something is very wrong,

• who want to combat the gaslighting

• and who want to find like-minded citizens.

I can increase the impact of my work, but your support is more important than ever and I thank you for it, so much.

Talk soon,