I’ve been pretty hard on rural Saskatchewan lately.
Not everyone living and working in rural Saskatchewan is racist, misogynistic, sadistic, anti-science and/or extremely vocal about it. Painting a massive group of people with one brush is not helpful. I know better and need to do better.
Unfortunately, in combination with militant conservatism and aggressive provincial, national and international misinformation campaigns, Saskatchewan’s vocal rural extremists seem to be the primary, or sometimes sole voices representing Saskatchewan’s rural demographic today.
To try to understand why, let’s look at two dramas playing out right now in two different Rural Municipalities (RMs) in Saskatchewan.
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