By: Jordan Twiss It’s easy, in trying times, to look back fondly on the past through rose-tinted glasses and view the present day in a more pessimistic light.

By: Jordan Twiss If you blinked at all last Wednesday (March 20), you may have missed all the excitement of the Sask. Party government’s delivery of Budget 2024-2025. Or what little excitement there was, at any rate.

By: Jordan Twiss As March barrels inevitably towards April, Canadians across the country find themselves in the midst of the much-dreaded, but also much-anticipated, provincial and federal budget season.

By: Jordan Twiss What’s been most remarkable in the ongoing war of attrition between the province’s educators and the Sask. Party government, is the almost complete radio silence from Premier Scott Moe.

By: Jordan Twiss Of all the words in the English language (the Oxford dictionary estimates there are just over 170,000 in active use), growth is perhaps the favourite word of this Sask. Party government.

By: Jordan Twiss Going by the latest polling numbers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal federal government’s odds of being re-elected with even a minority mandate are sitting squarely in “cross your fingers and toes and pray for a miracle” territory, perhaps even trending more towards “snowball’s chance in hell.”

By: Jordan Twiss Despite the near-literal Mount Everest of evidence to the contrary, I still choose to believe that people, no matter their political leanings, only get into politics with the best of intentions.

By: Jordan Twiss Though the origins of famous sayings are notoriously tricky to pin down, Mark Twain is most often credited with coining the old adage “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

By: Jordan Twiss When the Public Order Emergency Commission’s inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy concluded last February with Justice Paul Rouleau’s ruling (mostly in the government’s favour), I suggested nothing would actually change.

By: Jordan Twiss If Sask. Party government press releases were your sole source of provincial news, you could be forgiven for thinking Saskatchewan has never had it so good.