Unmaking Saskatchewan

By: Harbinger Media Network
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  • Unmaking Saskatchewan is a proudly anticapitalist and anticolonial podcast series on how the province of Saskatchewan was made - and how it can be unmade. This series examines how this province's history impacts its present, and how we might be able to change its future.

    Hosted by alex birrell (@abirlios), a queer settler, sometimes journalist, writer, and anti-capitalist from southern Saskatchewan.

    Support the show and find transcripts at https://www.patreon.com/unmakingsaskatchewan.
    Copyright Harbinger Media Network
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  • Bad Trees Bear Bad Fruit: How the Liberals, PCs, and NDP Sowed the Sask Party

    Bad Trees Bear Bad Fruit: How the Liberals, PCs, and NDP Sowed the Sask Party
    Jul 4 2024
    In the 1990s Saskatchewan was in almost as dire a position as it had been during the Great Depression. The province was on the verge of bankruptcy, people were leaving in droves, the PC party was collapsing under the weight of the fraud scandal, the Liberals were in freefall, and the NDP, led by Roy Romanow, was slashing services to the bone. The collapse of the PCs and Liberals, coupled with the NDP’s hard right turn away from everything it had ever claimed to stand for created the conditions for the rise of the party we live under today. First in a three-part series on the Saskatchewan Party.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Devine Punishment: The Cost of Electing Conservatives (w/ Simon Enoch)

    Devine Punishment: The Cost of Electing Conservatives (w/ Simon Enoch)
    Feb 15 2024
    In 1982 Saskatchewan elected the second Conservative government in the province's history. By the time the dust settled nine years later the province is $12 billion in debt, 12 members of the Devine government are convicted of fraud, and the Progressive Conservatives cease to exist as a political force in Saskatchewan ever again. Alex talks with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Saskatchewan director Simon Enoch about the Devine era and its legacy, which haunts the province to this day.

    Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/unmakingsaskatchewan.
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    45 mins
  • The Church Must Gather: Anticipating the Rise of the Canadian Christian Right

    The Church Must Gather: Anticipating the Rise of the Canadian Christian Right
    Jan 13 2024
    Evangelical Christians have impacted the social and political fabric of Saskatchewan for over a century, from fur-trade era missionaries to the temperance movement to the anti-trans "parent's rights" legislation. At the same time, the movement in Canada has tended towards moderation in comparison to their counterparts in the U.S. This episode examines the history of evangelicals in Saskatchewan and Canada and how the rise of Trump and the COVID era has put new energy into Canada's Christian right.

    Sources:

    This U.S.-based ‘hate group’ is using a shadowy network of lawyers and doctors to infiltrate Canada


    How Canadian evangelicalism is reinventing purity culture as ‘pro-women’


    Canada’s marginal ‘Christian right’


    Trinity Western loses fight for Christian law school as court rules limits on religious freedom 'reasonable'

    Exorcism at Sask. children's Bible camp could be criminal, say experts

    Fact Sheet: Public Opinion on Abortion
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    1 hr and 8 mins
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Boring and Cringe Worthy.

if you want woke garbage with pipe dreams if the world just stood still this is it.

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