Aleana Young
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MLA for Regina University • Critic: Econ, Jobs, Power, Energy & Resources, Forestry • Entrepreneur • Feminist • 🧀 👸🏻 of SK • she/her •
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My bébé was so smol and I was so tired 🥲
WATCH: From dirty diapers to deliberations, Saskatchewan MLAs are normalizing motherhood in the legislative building with babies in tow.
@allisonbamford
has the story.
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If you’re mad about Roe v. Wade, and you’re in Regina, I’ll let you know that Planned Parenthood hasn’t been able to find a commercial or private landlord willing to rent to them 🙃
(And no, PP isn’t *doing* abortions in their offices)
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It’s pretty wild that an incumbent
@CPC_HQ
MP’s campaign manager runs a large, activist anti-mask group aimed at disrupting elementary schools.
No? Just me?
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I haven’t taken a day or a penny of mat leave because of gentlemen like this. Some days, I’m sad, because I’d love to stay home, gaze at my perfect, sweet, firstborn baby, and be a mom.
Instead, I’ll parent, MLA, and run a business. And I’ll succeed so that the next girl can.
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What’s the plural noun for the crowd of elected officials who vacationed during COVID and pretended they were at home?
I’ll start: A sneer.
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Today, I’m pretty, pretty hopefully, almost, probably certain that my daughter became the first person to poop in the Chamber of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
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It was surreal to be sworn in today and affirm loyalty to the Queen. I was proud to do so with baby Hara in tow. I thought of the women who have come before me and those who were excluded from politics by virtue of their gender.
It’s an honour serve the people of SK.
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The Premier and Sask. Party refused to address their personal invite to convicted wife-murderer Colin Thatcher to the Throne Speech.
They claim it’s irrelevant to the business of government.
Tell that to the thousands of beaten and murdered women in Saskatchewan.
#skpoli
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Turns out my old standby of “just put on lipstick and no one can tell you’re tired!” trick doesn’t work while you’re nursing your 4-day-old baby during an impromptu front lawn scrum.
Thanks to everyone for all the love and well wishes. Let’s normalize moms in elected office 💪
This Saskatchewan politician ran on the slogan Ready to Deliver. She fulfilled her promise with a new baby and an election win in the same week.
#TheMoment
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Hello,
I have *officially* been in business for two years and apparently, smile at cheese 🧀 a lot. Also, if a milennial can open a cheese store, in a small market, in a recession, and pay her staff a living wage, you can too 💃🏻
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I just bought my baby diapers and wipes.
If I was making minimum wage it would have taken me three hours of work, nearly 10% of my work week to afford this. And only this.
Shame the misguided and greedy who perpetuate this. Shame on us for allowing them.
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This week, SaskParty Ministers heckled about one of our MLAs being home with a child with COVID and another for being with family in the hospital.
Another Minister regularly mutters misogynistic things while I present my IVF petition🙃
Let's call a spade a spade.
#skpoli
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Four years ago today, I nervously left my sane, salaried, benefit-ed job to open a strange little 🧀 shop.
Thank you to the amazing people in YQR who encouraged me to pursue entrepreneurship. If you’re thinking about starting a business - holla! I’ll pay that goodness forward 🥰
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Scott Moe and Dustin Duncan are fucking cowards.
#skpoli
I'll never support outing vulnerable kids.
Scott Moe, his Minister, and the media will be hearing from me later this day.
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When Premier Moe was incapable/unwilling to condemn the border blockades, seemingly egging them on…despite 70% of our economy being export based…
Was this because Brad Wall was strategizing to help, disrupting hundreds of millions in trade?
#skpoli
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I’ve been a wee bit MIA lately, and here’s why. Meet Kit Roadhouse.
He’s a 10/10 baby and impeccably tolerant younger brother. Huge thank you to
@CarlaBeckSK
and my crew for giving me the space and support to snuggle this perfect little loaf.
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I apologize to the entire periodic table.
Jeremy Harrison is asking Aleana Young to apologize for being offensive to helium for saying he's full of hot air, which is absolutely hilarious.
#skpoli
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Every time the Sask Party refuses to answer a question and instead, shrieks about the 90s, I’m going to remind them what the 90s looked like.
To be generous, we’re starting with me as old as I was in the 90s:
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Being a woman is tweeting about how people should be able to afford diapers and having men tell you that you’re doing it wrong 🙃
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Kevin, the people keeping your supply chains healthy and shelves stocked are the ones who are working diligently at their jobs, not parked in Ottawa, intimidating civilians, preventing babies from sleeping, and calling for insurrection.
Give your head a shake
A few of our SK Caucus members went to show our appreciation for the hardworking, patriotic truckers who have kept our supply chains healthy & grocery shelves stocked for the past two years. It’s great to see Canadians championing freedom on Parliament Hill.
#freedomconvoy22
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Q: If you truly believe $11.45 / hour is enough to live on - how many Christmas presents would you be able to buy on that wage?
A: Zero, because you’re probably living in debt and despair, relying on seasonal charity to subsidize your poverty wage and give your family Christmas
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I think a lot of people are asking themselves — “is this what I voted for?” Nobody asked for the Sask. Party to sell off profitable liquor stores that pay for our hospitals and schools or to lay off 400 workers in the middle of an affordability crisis. -
@nathaniel_teed
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You egged on blockades in Coutts and Windsor.
Pick a lane Premier, no one likes a hypocrite.
#skpoli
The federal government needs to act now to end this strike and protect jobs in our export-based industries.
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Happy Monday Minister
@MerrimanPaul
, asking for the single biggest voting block in SK:
Will you commit to ensuring families with children under 5 have access to vaccines before you scatter your public health measures to the winds?
#skpoli
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Happy Pride 💪 Here’s to fighting Scott Moe and his hateful, cowardly excuse of a government every step of the goddamned way.
#skpoli
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The Sask Party used our money to fund a school that beat and abused children. They continue to fund it. The Minister of Education knew and didn’t act and won’t or can’t to explain himself.
This is not a partisan issue - this is a bonfire of public interest.
#skpoli
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The Sask Party voted down our utterly reasonable amendment to make an exception for kids in danger. Deplorable.
It was never about protecting kids.
#skpoli
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We're not allowed to post photos from inside the Leg (sad!) but the West Gallery is full of students staring intently down at the government members as they diddle on their phones, chastened, and grumble like a tired old car.
#skpoli
Gearing up to speak at length to the new pronoun bill.
Drawing strength from the brave students that just walked out & marched to the Leg.
Leboldus, Balfour, Johnson, Connaught, Campbell, & more coming.
This fabulous crew is outside while many of their peers joined us inside.
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Just a couple wonderful educators from
@RegPublicSchool
, quietly painting over the homophobic graffiti ❤️
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It takes real … chutzpah… to stick to your talking point of “the teachers won’t show up” while 3,500 are literally circling the building you’re standing in.
#skpoli
While the government remains ready to bargain at any time, the teachers’ union has been at the table for 30 minutes in the last five months.
Students and teachers should be in the classroom. The teachers’ union should be at the bargaining table.
Today in the Assembly,
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People have worked incredibly hard on Frost Fest, to give Regina some joy and fresh air activities.
Protest law-makers, do not harass or abuse people in town. Do not impede HCW. Do not endanger public safety. If you’ve got issues with the Premier, take it up with him, not YQR.
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It’s a privilege and responsibility to normalize motherhood in politics 💪
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I’ve spent the past couple days cocooned in a bubble of new baby bliss and pointedly ignoring what’s been a very unusual week. My phone started pinging and I saw a gracious, heartfelt note from
@tbeaudrymellor
- thank you for all the hours and work on behalf of the people Sask.
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Which Daddy?
Student Loan Daddy? Job Since I Was 14 Daddy? Built and Own My Own Business Daddy? 😻 Cat Daddy?!?
@MMandryk
@AleanaYoung
@JHarrisonMLA
She’s a
#silverspoonsocialist
who’s been bankrolled by Daddy her whole life.
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The Premier is a disgrace.
"I am going to stay out of telling them [protesters] what to do," said Sask. Premier Scott Moe of the ongoing demonstrations in Ottawa, Windsor and Coutts. "It certainly is going to get everyone's attention...and it isn't for me to judge ultimately whether they should or not."
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When you don’t close businesses, you definitely don’t have to support them!
Letting them suffer and slide on their own means you can wash your hands of offering any assistance 🙃
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So, AIDS isn’t a gay disease, and Saskatchewan’s HIV rate was up 18% this year. ONE CBO in Regina exchanged 14000 needles in a single day. And the government refused to fund
@prairiehr
. And still won’t. But yeah, let’s restigmatize gay men.
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“Reassign your tone-deaf public safety minister and kick MLA Stewart, Thatcher’s good buddy, out of caucus.”
Scathing. And it gives voice to so much of the betrayal and fury so many are feeling. Well raged,
@ShachiKurl
#skpoli
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So distracted by the news of the day - the final count was completed on Nov 7 and I’m pleased as punch to be the MLA for Regina-University. Thank you to all my supporters, friends, staff, and countless volunteers - I’m humbled and excited to serve.
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Turns out I’ve officially had my wee business open for three years today 😱
10/10 recommend quitting your sane job to stare lovingly at wheels of cheese, paying your staff a living wage, supporting your community, and having a f🧀cking blast.
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Someone had a heart attack in the waiting room at St Paul’s and there was no where to put them because hallways were already full of gurneys. Nurses are now taking action in response to SaskParty inaction.
This isn’t a developing country, it’s Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan.
#skpoli
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The SaskParty is disappointing everyone and people are angry.
The dog whistling and gentle stoking of the rhetoric and fury that’s making our country and province less decent and ultimately less safe is feckless and dangerous.
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Imagine if it was another disease killing 1-7 people a day in this province, a strange mysterious disease, or heck, even chickenpox, and this government refused to do press conferences, shared only what they found politically convenient, and ignored doctors.
Imagine the outrage.
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Fun fact: there is no federal carbon tax on SaskPower - only the Sask Party’s carbon tax.
#skpoli
On January 1, we’re taking the Trudeau-NDP carbon tax off natural gas for home heating to match the federal exemption for heating oil.
About 30,000 Saskatchewan households, many in northern and First Nations communities, use electricity to heat their homes.
Here’s what we’re
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My Dad is definitely, definitely not unashamedly proud.
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Officially 9 months pregnant 🎉
Good morning to everyone except the SaskParty which doesn’t believe in adequately funding women’s and maternal health, preferring to be satisfied with the highest infant mortality rates among provinces.
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Hey white people, settlers,
If you’re weighing in, ask yourself: am I supporting the oppressed or the oppressors? Am I standing in solidarity and support with indigenous people?
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In Manitoba, our neighbours firmly rejected the ugliest kind of politics. They chose hope. They chose healthcare. They chose an economy focused on families. They chose what mattered to them.
#skpoli
Scott Moe stands against vulnerable trans youth
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Congrats to incoming Premier
@WabKinew
who led a positive, historic, and hopeful campaign that was embraced by Manitobans 🧡
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After six hours of debate and argument by
@mearaconwayMLA
, my desk mate and colleague
@nathaniel_teed
is on his feet defending his community.
As Saskatchewan’s only (out) queer MLA, his debate is historic and it’s riveting.
#skpoli
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“Saskatchewan will not accept a federal offer for extra staff to relieve the province’s hammered hospitals amid record-high COVID-19,”
Those with elective surgeries, organ donation, cancer, triaged, burnt out HCWs, sacrificed because..? This is unethical.
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Guys. Guys. Guys. We have almost made it through Darkest January. All we need to do is make it through The Annual February of Despair and we’ll have made it to Lie to Ourselves That It’s Spring March. Only 58 days to go!
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The first Mother’s Day in awhile that hasn’t met me with complicated feelings. Happy Sunday to everyone out there, sharing love or needing love ❤️
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These students from Knoll, Campbell, Leboldus, Riffel, Regina Christian, and Laval came out to their Legislature hoping the education Minister and government would hear them out.
As they left one asked me “why did no one from the government come talk with us?”
#skpoli
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When an editorial board spends an entire column shaming you.
The Sask. Party has made us a national embarrassment.
#skpoli
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Instead of being honest or brave, and recognizing the record-breaking number of Saskatchewan people in hospital, the Premier held a vanity news conference where he had no news beyond misinformation and the weak threat of showing even less concern for us.
#skpoli
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Did
@PremierScottMoe
just call January’s COVID trend a success? Am I living on a different plane of existence? Is this newspeak?
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You raised taxes 32 times in a single year.
You’ve had 17 years to do better.
It’s time for change.
#skpoli
I see the NDP is pledging not to raise taxes.That’s the same old NDP that raised taxes 21 times in 16 years in govt, including the PST four times and the gas tax twice.
That’s the same old NDP that supports the Trudeau carbon tax, which is raised every year.
The best indicator
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Good morning from the hospital! The orange jello is exceptionally fine today 🧡 👌
Here are five constituencies to watch in the Saskatchewan election today. Includes
@AleanaYoung
, who has thrown election norms out the window by having a baby the day before the election. That riding is truly the battle of two boss ladies
#skpoli
#cdnpoli
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Claiming any potential circuit breaker or shut down of economic sectors will permanent kill 10s of thousands of jobs is only true if the government does absolutely nothing to help businesses and workers with the hundreds of millions of our tax dollars that they’re sitting on 🙃
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SaskPower is now projecting to lose $114M this year, losing $9M more than their Q2 report.
The Sask Party has managed to raise rates (x3) and lose money, while running a monopoly.
While it’s truly staggering they’re so bad with money, we’ve seen this play before.
#skpoli
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Watching cabinet ministers gleefully chant “let them play” while banging their desks in a an utterly unhinged chorus sure was an experience.
Let’s you know everything about the seriousness of the people governing our province. And how much they actually care about kids.
#skpoli
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The people responsible for the single biggest tax hike *and* biggest deficit in Saskatchewan history 🙃
Thrilled to meet with the over a dozen
@SaskParty
MLAs to share common sense ideas to bring fairness to the west and paychecks to Canadians.
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Premier Scott chirping about independence when he’s airlifting the intubated bodies of his neighbours to Ontario, and the army is nursing SK people is a bold, bold take.
#skpoli
Scott Moe’s Throne Speech yesterday failed to recognize the magnitude of crisis he has created.
Today, we will hold him to account in Question Period.
🗞
#skpoli
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What patriots, eh?
The former Premier giving free comms advice and volunteers to folks now charged with crimes, and the current Premier spending tax dollars to pay his buddies to stir up separatism, while doing nadda during an economic crisis.
#skpoli
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It’s not surprising that people who don’t care enough about protecting their neighbours to be decent and wear a mask also don’t care enough to learn their names or treat them with respect.
Unfortunately, racism and ignorance are inseparable.
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If this government wants to avoid crippling the economy and killing small businesses by shutting down over Christmas, there needs to be more than a melodramatic and feeble admonishment to remember the arrows on the floors of the grocery store.
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Just a reminder that this Premier hasn't balanced a budget and under his watch, the economy is worse off than it was in 2013.
Jobs numbers out today? Unemployment is 10% higher than last month, the biggest increase among provinces.
#skpoli
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The SaskParty dragged SaskPower into a $100M loss, can’t bail it out as they’ve been taking every penny they can, are spending $1B of our money to build infrastructure in the US, and still insist they’re not trying to run run it into the ground.
#skpoli
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The Premier is isolating with COVID tweeting about how it’s not a big deal, the Health Minister is in hiding, and the Economy Minister is on a taxpayer funded tour of Dubai.
What entitlement. What arrogance.
#skpoli
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Imagine.. you’re the Premier with the worst jobs growth record. 10K young people have left. Cost of living is 📈 People are poorer.
Instead of working, you & the braintrust spend the morning posting, then deleting sanctimonious Facebook posts written like you’re dragging your ex
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Remember when the SaskParty had a worker fired for whistleblowing on the appalling state of seniors “left in soiled diapers and bedding for up to 10 hours.”?
Meanwhile, rich cabinet ministers can swan off to California during a pandemic, with not even a slap on the wrist
NDP calls for Sask. Party's Hargrave to resign after Palm Springs trip
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A merry reminder that in two short weeks the days start getting longer ☀️
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Q: "Mr Premier is there anything you'd do differently, like support small businesses?"
A: *ignores question; rambles for 3 minutes listing future, theoretical spending; blames Trudeau; end scene*
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@PremierScottMoe
You are the first premier to drop Saskatchewan’s standard of living since the Great Depression.
A bold election strategy to be sure.
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Helping me work throughout our Saturday council meeting 😍
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Why is it so hard for this place not to shame and marginalize lgbtq people.
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This election has been so wild that I had almost forgotten that a woman, and woman of colour, is going to the White House for the first time.
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When working parents are struggling to find childcare, remember - it’s Premier Moe and the Sask Party who have starved the education sector to the point of strikes 🪧
#skpoli
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At work. Nursing in the back. Covered in spit up. Happy baby. Small biz mom.
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Politics is a grind. It takes your all.
No one serves alone and the sacrifice of families is immense. Today is a hard day for many, but especially Ryan and his family. Thank you
@ryanmeili
for your service. Glad you’re sticking around.
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Astonishing to watch Ed Minister Duncan take to his feet in QP to actively drag publicly funded education and the achievement of kids in the public and catholic systems here in Sask. Absolutely mind-blowing.
#skpoli
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Imagine being so morally bankrupt that you use a crisis - which has killed nearly 1000 of your neighbours - to make up 6-figure jobs for your underqualified friends.
Scott Moe’s government is a kleptocracy.
#skpoli
A former Saskatchewan Party candidate and longtime political operative has been appointed to the highest rungs of the province’s health authority.
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I can’t imagine being a student, told every day - or twice a day! - that I had been exposed to COVID at school.
The mental toll on kids is huge.
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Last day of session shout out to
@JHarrisonMLA
,
@dmeyersYQR
, and all the Sask Party bros with their burner accounts watching this Twitter as a sad, mildly concerning hobby.
See you in the fall 💁🏻♀️
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It is (not actually) funny that we have mandated what counts as the acceptable width of spaghetti straps but not masks 🙃
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Oh hey! It me!
I firmly believe ethics and business aren't mutually exclusive. There's nothing wrong with making lots of money, but if the only way you can get rich is to keep people poor? You're not running a sustianable business.
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Had my first of what is hopefully MANY young people job-shadow me. Betty is 9, a friend of all creatures, strong feminist, wants all reserves to have clean water, and everyone to get 💉 so her grandparent are safe.
Thanks to everyone
@SKLegAssembly
who made today 🙌
#skpoli
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