Radioactive: A New OurSask Series
Connecting today’s political manoeuvres to hidden influence and forgotten history.
It’s been a minute, I know. Thanks for sticking with me.
If I’m being honest, writing these two pieces took a lot out of me:
The Cruelty is the Point: How Scott Moe’s Cabinet Gutted Disability Support in Saskatchewan
Given this piece addresses changes to laws in Saskatchewan that will harm the poorest and most vulnerable in it, I am not putting a paywall on this. Everyone needs to read it.
Corporate Welfare, Saskatchewan-Style
Before you read this piece , you should read this one if you haven’t yet:
Between the gutting of disability benefits — and the blatant lies about it — and the half‑million‑dollar tax credit gifted to Sask Party‑approved investors, I can’t get over the sheer inhumanity and greed on display in Saskatchewan’s government.
Scott Moe and his caucus have become grotesque caricatures… of themselves.
I’ve been working on a complicated piece on Saskatchewan’s MLA living allowance — the provision allowing elected officials, who live and represent a riding outside of the Queen City, to claim expenses for accommodation in Regina when they’re there for Legislative session or meetings.
What it was not designed to do was encourage MLAs to move themselves and their family completely away from the riding they represent, to live in Regina full-time, using the living allowance to pay the mortgage on a brand new Regina home. Yet it appears that in some cases, that is exactly what’s happened.
Jeremy Harrison, come to the front. You’re up again, little man.
We’ll get into it in the coming days.
Meantime, anyone who’s been riding with me for a while knows exactly how sad and frustrating it is to keep telling these stories, for years, not knowing where rock bottom begins or ends.
Still, how dare I be surprised?
I was part of that machinery once — lived it, breathed it, defended it — for almost the Sask Party’s entire first government term.
Sure, they’ve evolved the game since then, coasting into a fifth incomprehensible term, but the outcome hasn’t changed: reality in Saskatchewan remains bent to serve the same small circle of corporate‑welfare addicts who run the province.
This is where my new Radioactive series begins — my time behind the scenes at the John Gormley Live Show from 2007 to 2011. And no better place to start than with those embarrassing 8:30 AM “snap polls.”
