The Prescription for Saskatchewan's K-12 System? More Bibles.

Plus leaked government emails reveal Moe's Ukrainian project isn't popular with public servants who just want to do the jobs we're paying them to do

I was working on a piece about the Sask Housing Corporation and its goal to get its ratio of empty housing to unhoused individuals in the province as high as it possibly can, but it’s proving a lot of research so it’ll wait til Friday.

Meanwhile, enjoy these bits of leaked intel from around Saskatchewan, highlighting some of the very latest on two of the issues fuelling the dumpster fire that is rapidly defining Saskatchewan in the 21st century.

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Every year, billions of tax dollars are poured into the pockets of the amazing Saskatchewan people who really run this province.

Who do the actual work.

These are the people that trudge in and out of government office buildings and bullpens, call centres and worksites, predominantly in Regina but all over the province, five days a week, ensuring every one of the cogs that needs to turn does so on a day-to-day basis.

Thousands of public servants, committed to the cause of keeping Saskatchewan society and communities held together as neatly as possible.

Fifteen years into their reign, the Sask Party government has managed to do a pretty good job populating the upper echelons of the public service - you know, the executives doing very little work for ten times as much money as those they oversee - with a bunch of political hacks.

Upper management in all public sectors, from Crowns to health care to the Ministries, is stacked with partisans. That twenty-six year old kid in short pants earns a six-figure publicly-funded salary not for their ability to contribute to bettering the quality of life of Saskatchewan residents, but because someone owed a favour to someone’s friend.

Underneath that incompetent, political and toxic mess at the top, however, continues to strive a quiet and dedicated public service of Saskatchewan residents processing payroll, analyzing endless reports and hanging off power poles - serving the public.

Unless Scott Moe demands otherwise, apparently.