The Weaver Aug 2026

This month's Weaver is packed with wonderful information and messages from your Leader and SGP Executive. Stay up to date. Be informed.

Hit ‘em where it hurts!

Saskatchewan holds an incredible leverage point against the USA in this ongoing trade war, and it’s time we use it. It is estimated that Saskatchewan supplies 86.9% of U.S. potash imports. Every single one of Canada’s 10 potash mines are located in Saskatchewan, according to Natural Resources Canada.

If Canada were to disrupt the supply of potash to the USA, it would be very difficult to replace. But what really needs to happen is an export tax on potash to increase supply, and it needs to happen now. Higher potash prices would have an immediate effect across the Midwest.

Your SGP 2026 Executive

Party Leader: Naomi Hunter - [email protected]

President: Mike Hamm - [email protected]
Vice-president: Remi Rheault - [email protected]
Secretary: Whitney Greenleaf
Treasurer/COA: Sherry Olson
Organizing Chair: Sean Muirhead
Fundraising: Nancy Carswell
Northern Youth Rep.: open
Southern Youth Rep.: Darry Michelle
Member-at-Large: Bo Chen
Member-at-Large: Mikayla Schultz
Member-at-Large: Alison (Ven) Feland

SGP Online Links

https://www.saskgreen.ca/

https://www.facebook.com/SaskGreenParty

https://www.facebook.com/NaomiHunterGPC

Important Upcoming Dates:

SGP Executive Meeting - Sunday, Sept 13
The Weaver Editorial Planning Meeting - Tuesday, Sept. 22
Weaver Publishing Date - Sunday, Sept 27

Petitions - Take Action and Please Sign

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Together, we can create real change in this province. As people across the province mobilize and add their voices to petitions for change, we build strength and resilience together. Add your voice today.

Coal will cost Saskatchewan tens of billions more than natural gas or renewables, report finds

Penbima Institute, August 24, 2026 - New independent analysis conducted by the Pembina Institute confirms Saskatchewan’s plan to extend coal-fired power to 2050 is one of its most expensive electricity options, costing tens of billions more than modern and viable alternatives. This is a move that threatens to raise costs just as Canada braces for the economic fall out of the quickly advancing trade war with the United States.

Altogether, the analysis finds that continued reliance on coal would cost between $26 billion and $32 billion. By comparison, converting coal plants to natural gas would cost $18 billion to $25 billion, while expanding renewables would cost just $12 billion to $17 billion, plus roughly $1 billion in battery energy storage.

In other words, delaying the coal phase-out from 2030 to 2050 would cost more than twice as much as generating electricity from renewable energy, locking in higher prices at a time when households, businesses, and industries can least afford them.

Overwhelming Majorities in Canada, U.S. Say No to Local Data Centre Development

The Energy Mix, August 19, 2026 - Public opposition to artificial intelligence (AI) data centre projects is surging across Canada and the United States, as outrage over the projects’ energy and water use, noise pollution, carbon footprint—and their proponents’ habit of often ignoring or flouting community opposition—unites voters across the political spectrum.

Who Pays for AI’s Energy Binge?

By SGP Member Nancy Carswell, August 13, 2026 - Have you noticed your browser defaults to AI-generated overviews before search results? Big Tech is normalizing energy-intensive defaults without our consent. Consider signing the petition.

Starving the Science - Feds cut agriculture research in favour of defence spending

The Watershed Sentinel, August 9, 2026 - On January 20 at Davos, Prime Minister Carney said that a country that cannot feed itself has few options.

Just days later, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada announced that seven research facilities – at Lacombe, Indian Head, Scott, Portage la Prairie, Guelph, Quebec City, and Nappan – and the Organic and Regenerative Agriculture program will no longer receive funding.

These funding cuts amount to a self-inflicted brain drain and a disincentive for young people interested in agricultural science fields. They throw away more than a century’s worth of public investment in people, science, and infrastructure, while increasing risks to the food system and the people who work within it. The cuts are devastating on multiple fronts; however, the immense costs to agricultural climate science must be considered in their own right, as the closing of these facilities and programs will be consequential well into the future.

Waiser: There’s a better way when it comes to clean water on reserves

Saskatoon Star Phoenix, August 8, 2026 - Bill C-37 reinforces the decades-old pattern whereby Canadians and their governments act as if they, and they alone, know what is best for First Nations people.

Note: I'm not fond of comparing Canada's indigenous people to Malaysians. It seems too colonial to do that, but the issue demands wildly overdue attention, and Waiser's initiative is genuine.

Saskatchewan Just Made Your School Board An ICE-Style Immigration Database

Our Sask, Tammy Robert, August 4, 2026 - On July 15, 2026, Scott Moe’s Cabinet signed an Order In Council (OIC) amending The Local Authority Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Regulations, 2026.

It adds one line to a list of local public institutions that can legally hand your personal information to the Sask Party government.

The new line says your school board, hospital, municipality or any of dozens of other local bodies can now share your personal information with Government of Saskatchewan-appointed immigration directors and “enforcement officers” working under Saskatchewan’s Immigration Services Act.

This impacts you. Anyone in Saskatchewan whose name, address, employment record, school record, or health file sits in a public body’s database.

Province pauses SWAT unit for Sask. Marshals Service, says eager employee responsible for tender

CBC News, August 12, 2026 - Saskatchewan's newest police force was gearing up for a SWAT team, but now those plans are on hold after critics questioned the purpose and cost of the unit.

Minister of Community Safety Michael Weger confirmed that he and Chief Marshal Robert Cameron were unaware of a document asking for bids to equip a specialized response unit (SRU) until they were informed on Aug. 13.

Weger said the tender was issued by an unnamed marshal's employee who was attempting to get the ball rolling on the SRU's development.

Seed Increase Unit at Indian Head Research Farm is essential for Canada’s seed sovereignty

National Farmers Union, July 20, 2026 - To save a mere $27 million per year, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) plans to close 7 public agriculture research facilities, including the Indian Head Research Farm in Saskatchewan, which has served Canadian farmers for 140 years. This research farm is ideally situated for plant breeding and seed production of many crops due its soils, climate, plant disease and pest population levels, and flat topography. The farm houses purpose-built facilities and equipment, and most importantly, its research lands have been carefully stewarded by generations of scientists and technicians.

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Mike Hamm published this page in The Weaver Newsletter 2026-08-30 21:04:30 -0600