By: Jordan Twiss Over and over and over, we’ve heard Premier Scott Moe tell us Saskatchewan’s oil and gas are the cleanest, most sustainable oil and gas in the whole world.

By: Jordan Twiss They say a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth even gets its shoes on.

By: Jordan Twiss Watchers of the legislative assembly who tune in for the kind of verbal sparring one might expect to see on Jerry Springer reruns were given an exciting and unexpected season finale of the spring sitting.

By: Jordan Twiss When former Premier Brad Wall ushered his Saskatchewan Party government into office in 2007, he boasted that his would be “the most open and transparent government in the history of the province.”

By: Jordan Twiss On May 1, when he introduced a new support for families with children who need to travel out of province for medical treatment, Health Minister Everett Hindley said the initiative was the result of the Sask. Party government listening to families, kids, and frontline healthcare providers.

By: Jordan Twiss One thing we can always count on is the human tendency to make things more complicated than they ought to be.

By: Jordan Twiss “Knowing better, doing worse” has become somewhat of a theme in this space in recent weeks – a simple way to explain the Sask. Party government’s recent track record of ignoring any expert advice or evidence it doesn’t like, in favour of ploughing ahead with its own partisan agenda.

By: Jordan Twiss In the opening sentence of its Agricultural Drought Preparedness Plan, the Ministry of Agriculture (and by extension the Sask. Party government) makes an unexpected admission.

By: Jordan Twiss Last week, as Saskatchewan’s educators undertook work-to-rule actions, indefinitely withdrawing noon hour supervision and support for extracurricular activities, the odds of them reaching any sort of contract agreement with the Sask. Party government were rather bleak.

By: Jordan Twiss Policymaking is much like writing a novel. Unless the author of the policy (or novel) is some unprecedented virtuoso, it’s almost guaranteed their first draft will be a dud.