This month's Weaver is packed with wonderful information and messages from your Leader and SGP Executive. Stay up to date. Be informed.
Lack of Wetlands Protection Policy causes problems.
I would like to draw everyone’s attention to this recent SaskToday article that highlights a point we as the SGP have made many times: “unregulated wetland drainage exposes gaps in Saskatchewan water oversight.”
https://paherald.sk.ca/unregulated-wetland-drainage-exposes-gaps-in-saskatchewan-water-oversight/
From the 2024 Sask. Green Party Election Platform
“Saskatchewan is the only province without a Wetlands Protection Policy. It’s time that Saskatchewan follows the lead of our neighbours in Alberta and Manitoba and develops a more balanced mitigation policy, one that offers protection for municipalities, producers, and society.
When wetlands are drained, we lose the benefits they provide of clean water, flood and drought protection, and recreation opportunities.
Saskatchewan must have a Wetlands Conservation Policy that doesn’t fall short of what is actually needed. As well, we also need legislation to protect our grasslands.”
Our 2026 AGM felt like a return to our roots! It was in-person, a long potluck social and lots of lively discussions. All three motions brought to the meeting passed on the first Bonser ballot, green-lit. We also have a full executive with only one opening for our second youth rep position (with the option to fill it during the year).
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.facebook.com/SaskGreenParty
https://www.facebook.com/NaomiHunterGPC
Important Upcoming Dates:
- SGP Executive Meeting - Sunday, July 12
- The Weaver Editorial Planning Meeting - Tuesday, July 21
- Weaver Publishing Date - Sunday, July 26
Petitions - Take Action and Please Sign
You can make a difference.
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.
End Homelessness in Saskatchewan
https://www.saskgreen.ca/end_homelessness_in_saskatchewan
Ending Poverty in Saskatchewan
https://www.saskgreen.ca/ending_poverty_in_saskatchewan
SK must act now to remove asbestos from our drinking water
https://www.saskgreen.ca/asbestos_in_our_drinking_water
SK needs a Wetlands Policy
https://www.saskgreen.ca/sk_needs_a_wetlands_policy
SK needs Renewable Energy, not nuclear waste.
https://www.saskgreen.ca/sk_needs_renewable_energy_not_nuclear_waste
SK demands a new approach to healthcare
https://www.saskgreen.ca/sk_demands_a_new_approach_to_healthcare
Moose Jaw resident launches petition calling for a pause on the proposed data centre
MOOSE JAW — Moose Jaw resident Jeff Deagle has launched a petition urging a pause on a proposed data centre project.
Last year, Carpere Valley Development Corporation (rebranded as Aztec), which purchased the land encompassing the former Valley View Centre, announced its intention to build a data centre. Carpere had originally submitted a concept plan for the site in 2022, including a mixed-use of commercial and residential buildings, but without any plans for a data centre.
At the June 9 meeting of Moose Jaw’s executive committee, a revised concept plan outlining a data centre was presented, which led Deagle to launch his petition, citing sudden changes.
Link to the petition:
https://www.change.org/p/stop-a-proposed-ai-data-centre
The MNP report, the wildfire failures, and what Saskatchewan owes the people of Denare Beach.
By Tammy Roberts, Substack, June 18, 2026 - “What follows is not a partisan argument. It is a documentation of facts; a stone-cold reckoning with what happens when a government treats public safety, public health, and people’s lives as problems to be managed with a sound-byte rather than solved in any meaningful way.”
We must have a forensic investigation into the 2025 wildfire season, the water bomber procurement, and the SPSA’s structural failures. The MNP review was competent, as far as it went. It was also explicitly not a blame exercise and not independent in the fullest sense.
Sucked In. The Maw That Feeds AI Mania
By Andrew Nikiforuk, Tyee contributor, June 15, 2026 - Did you know one permanent job in the data centre industry takes a ~$54 million investment, while AI promises to make millions of jobs obsolete? Not only does it suck up capital, but it is also a vacuum that sucks up power and water, and it is a gyre that churns up mountains for metal and minerals. Also, “As the gyre consumes and digests, it expels heat. Enough to pose a threat to humans and nature at its pulling edges.”
We Can Lower Gas Prices. Here’s How
The Tyee, May 26, 2026 - Because contrary to the well-funded advertising campaigns of oil industry lobby groups, the biggest threat to affordability in Canada is our continued reliance on fossil fuels. We learned that in 2022. And now we’re learning it again.
Election Funding Transparency is vital for real democracy
Tammy Robert Substack, June 5, 2026 - A pattern of blocking election transparency should alarm every voter, and a donor loophole that shocked me, even after twenty years of studying this nonsense.
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment launches a petition calling on the Sask Party to Quit Coal.
The Saskatchewan government is spending billions to refurbish coal plants, locking in decades of air pollution that will harm people’s health and shorten lives.
The science is clear: there is no safe level of coal pollution. It is linked to asthma, heart disease, lung cancer, and premature death. Children, pregnant women, and seniors are hit hardest by these health costs, as well as Indigenous communities whose traditional foods are contaminated by mercury from coal plants.
Saskatchewan has better, healthier alternatives to power its economy.
Sign the petition:
https://cape.ca/action/quit-coal
Web of companies masks identity of top political donors in Saskatchewan
CBC News · Jun 9, 2026 - Saskatchewan is home to some of the largest political donors in Canada. And the province’s unrestricted political finance rules make it difficult to identify who is behind the five-and-six-figure contributions or to pinpoint where in the country the money is coming from.
Several of the biggest donations made to Saskatchewan political parties in 2025 came from companies for which there is virtually no public information available. A joint investigation by the IJF and CBC found many of these companies share directors, shareholders and even physical addresses, revealing a system of personal and corporate accounts used to mask influence.
The Sask Party Funds State Radio. State Radio Funds the Sask Party. You Fund Both.
Tammy Robert Subscack, June 13, 2026 - The CBC published a story this week about a “web of companies” masking the identity of big political donors in Saskatchewan.
Before I continue, I want to be clear up front: I’m not knocking the reporter. I assume he’s just doing what he’s told.
The work he did costs money, even if not his own. It takes time - that we’re paying him for with public dollars. Corporate registry searches alone aren’t free, which is why we fund a public broadcaster, including a budget for precisely this kind of work.
Opinion: Why Saskatchewan must phase out coal by 2030
Saskatoon Star Phoenix. June 13, 2026 - What most of our patients don’t realize is that even when the Prairie sky is clear, they are breathing harmful pollutants from Saskatchewan’s coal power plants. And the science is clear: There is no safe level of exposure to coal pollution.
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