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Sask Party MLA Terry Dennis's Big Adventure: 3 Days In Berlin To Rubberneck Victims of War Crimes

Sask Party MLA Terry Dennis's Big Adventure: 3 Days In Berlin To Rubberneck Victims of War Crimes

Happy Easter! Your annual reminder that Jesus had to die so the Sask Party could lie.

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Tammy Robert
Apr 16, 2022
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Pretend Ontario just invaded Saskatchewan.

When the tanks started rolling across the Manitoba border and you saw your neighbours shot and killed in their driveways, you knew it was time to go. You and your kids crossed hundreds of miles of cold winter prairie on foot, en route to Alberta, trying to avoid certain death by snipers or land mines. You left both your husband and your oldest son behind. Your parents were killed when their condo building was bombed. Your best friend and her family are missing, presumed dead in the basement of the Conexus Arts Centre, where she and hundreds of other Saskatchewan families had been sheltering when Ontario’s air strikes obliterated it.

Day and night you listened to the planes and drones and missiles overhead, destined for your family, friends and neighbours left behind. Every time you turned your phone on you learned of heinous atrocities - war crimes - being committed in your sleepy little community. Within days your husband is dead. Soldiers even shot your family’s dog, a rescue from the Saskatoon SPCA, and nailed her bloody severed paws to your front door.

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