Hi, SGP members!

I wanted to give everyone an update on where we are, as of the end of July, in the process of nominating active candidates. We still need to find a goodly number of SGP voices for the environment and social justice leading up to the October 2024 provincial election. I want to emphasize that the most crucial of all of the ridings are the far northwest (Athabasca) and far northeast (Cumberland). Because of how the numbers of active voters add up in those communities, these are two ridings where active candidates can see tremendous results and help the whole party.

If you know someone in ANY of these roughly 30 areas who you think would be a good fit, please give them my text and phone number, 1-306-561-8880, or my email [email protected] 

Thank you! Naomi Hunter

Do you know someone who would make a great Saskatchewan Green Party candidate?

Candidates must be committed to attending election forums and doing local media interviews during the election. We have not announced candidates in the following ridings yet:

It’s with incredible sorrow that I’m writing to let you know about the passing of another legendary Saskatchewan Green. Dave Abbey passed away suddenly of aspiration pneumonia yesterday (May 24. 2024). He had his family by his side and listened to his favourite song, "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream". We will carry on to make his dream come true. His wife Carol called to let us know. There will be no service and he has chosen cremation.

Our friend Dave Greenfield, former Saskatchewan Green Party and Green Party of Canada candidate, member of the executive of the SGP, and Saskatchewan representative on the Federal Council of the Green Party of Canada, died on Thursday, April 18, 2024, after a lengthy hospitalization. He will live on in our hearts as a man dedicated to the environment, social justice and peace. He pursued these passions through activism in political, civic, and religious groups, including the Council of Canadians, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Climate Justice Saskatoon and the Saskatoon Peace Coalition. He will be remembered as a defender of the rights and dignity of our disabled and disadvantaged brothers and sisters.

Scott Moe’s Diefenbaker Dam Expansion Project is a waste of our money and threatens our precious fresh water supply. The water for this southern Saskatchewan Irrigation Project is to come from an area that is already suffering a several-year drought. Why are working people facing a tax increase of billions of dollars that will only transfer huge wealth to a few very large-scale farmers?

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On July 22nd, 2020 the City of Saskatoon announced that it was going to run a one-year test trial with an electric bus. Saskatoon leases electric bus for 1-year test drive | CBC News

(Antifascistferret, 2017, CC by SA 4.0)

In the month of May a coincidence of birthdays has led me to reflect on the story of two individuals from different time periods who died in the cause of peace: Albert Ginger Goodwin and Fernando Pereira. Both were born on May 10th, in the years of 1887 and 1950 respectively, and both were martyred as a result of their activist work for peace.

Today, April 19^th 2023 marks eighty years since the commencement of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19^th 1943.

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Early in the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Nazis had concentrated the Jewish population of Poland into a number of densely crowded ghettos, the largest of which was in Warsaw. During the summer of 1942, the Nazis had removed some two hundred and fifty-four thousand to three hundred thousand Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, sending them to their deaths in the Treblinka Death Camp.