Fellow Greens,

This election has heightened even further the urgent need for Green legislation and Green legislators for Saskatchewan. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, terrible as it was, could have been much, much worse. Remarkably, despite this event as well as the Fukushima and Three Mile Island accidents, the pro-nuclear SaskParty is following the lead of those who would say that it’s possible to guarantee that these types of accidents (and worse) will never happen again. The truth of the matter is that it’s pretty much guaranteed that worse will come to pass, especially when dealing with waste products that remain toxic for tens of thousands of years, products whose long-term storage problems are far from sorting out.

Dear Saskatchewan Greens,

The day after the 2024 election, first and foremost, thank you to every candidate, without whom this campaign would have been impossible. Thank you to our members and supporters who volunteered and donated. Thank you as well to every single person who voted Green.

I’m reflecting back to when we suddenly needed to fundraise as a focus and raise a significantly higher nomination fee for our candidates. This arbitrary dictate by Elections Saskatchewan immediately impacted our organizing ability. But we made it through. One strength moving forward is that candidates are reaching out today expressing their eagerness to run again – and now they are bringing up the need to fundraise for their own campaigns between elections. 

Dear fellow Greens,

First and foremost, thank you so much to all of you who have stepped up to help this election effort with time and donations. Despite some very difficult new challenges to getting our candidates onto the ballot, we ended up fielding 58 out of a possible 61 candidates for MLA.  Daymion Tyndale for Last Mountain Touchwood, Herb Bellrose for White City-Qu’Appelle and Clayton Cave for Cypress Hills were incredible candidates and their input is still needed in the party. I sincerely hope they will run again. Their courage in stepping up is very much appreciated.

Secondly, so much gratitude to our wonderful group of candidates! We haven’t collected all the debates and interviews they have been featured in, so I’m sure we will be seeing more in the post-election Weaver. Hopefully, some of us will be in the Legislature by then.

When I talk to Greens across the country and they reminisce about “the good old days” and what they miss, they always list off things we still do as Greens in Saskatchewan. Things you might take for granted. We are a living culture of grassroots democracy. We get to know one another and check on each other’s well-being, and enjoy a non-status camaraderie among candidates and volunteers. Being “ordinary people” is what makes us so relatable to voters on our doorsteps. We, as Greens, revive people’s faith in democracy and their confidence to try something different when it comes time to cast their ballot.

Dear Saskatchewan Greens,

I’m finally done harvest at the family orchard. That was a long one this year!

The winds of change are blowing in this province! I’m travelling the width and length of Saskatchewan again, helping Greens organize for the upcoming election. Everywhere I go, I hear the same thing: “We are ready for something new!” We in the SGP are the refreshing breeze that this province needs to restore voters’ belief in the integrity of our political system.

Dear Saskatchewan Greens,

Globally, the world is experiencing exponential growth of solar power with storage. Saskatchewan is an excellent place to employ solar, wind and other renewables, and the Saskatchewan Green Party is prepared to incentivize the rapid transition to clean energy in our province. The economics of energy production clearly favours renewables, and our province needs politicians who are prepared to do the work to bring our province within climate goals that look after future generations.

Dear Saskatchewan Greens,

As most of you know, SaskPower (by way of the SaskParty) is moving ahead with a fleet of GE-Hitachi BWRX-300 Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. They see the Diefenbaker Lake and Estevan areas as sites big enough for at least two reactors, and they are envisioning four SMNRs in the province by 2042. The Saskatchewan Green Party is the ONLY political party in this province standing against this.

Here are some facts that are helpful when people ask “Why are you opposed to SMNRs?” 

Dear Green Friends,

If ever there was a time for Saskatchewan to hear the message “Doing Politics Differently“, it’s now. Voters need the refreshing, honest approach of Saskatchewan Green policies and candidates to restore their faith in democracy. It has never been more evident that the SaskParty has reached a level of corruption that they aren’t even bothering to hide anymore. This week in the Saskatchewan legislature, the SaskParty Speaker of the House Randy Weekes revealed that he has been the victim of intimidation and threats from his own party since becoming Speaker.

Canada’s wildfire season is off to an intense start and winter is barely over. More than 100 fires are burning across British Columbia. Several communities in northern Alberta are under evacuation alert already. Climate scientists have been warning us about this for decades, of course. Our weirdly warm winter produced hardly any snow, and left drought conditions right across the prairies to B.C. So, right now, the conditions are already more conducive to generating wildfires than they were at this time last year, and the federal government has now officially warned us that this wildfire season could indeed be worse than in 2023.

It is hard to look forward to another summer of toxic smoke and brutal, deathly heat. Despite all this, the SaskParty government released a budget that didn’t mention the “climate crisis” once.

At this time last year, the government was projecting a $ 208 million surplus for 2024-25.

Provincial Finance Minster Donna Harpaeur has gotten her projections wrong before; in all likelihood, she has again. This year, she said the government is projecting a return to balance by 2025-26, with a projected $18-million surplus for the next fiscal year. What this budget boils down to is $31.8 billion this year or a provincial debt of $14,090 for every person in the province. No premier in Saskatchewan’s history has ever increased provincial debt at the rate Premier Scott Moe has.