Episodes

  • 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.

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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
  • Inside Saskatchewan's Evangelical Movement (w/ Dallas Verity)

    Inside Saskatchewan's Evangelical Movement (w/ Dallas Verity)
    Jan 2 2024
    The evangelical movement is becoming increasingly salient in Saskatchewan politics, most recently with the passage of the anti-trans "parents' rights" legislation passed in fall 2023, legislation that had substantial backing from evangelical churches and organizations. Alex talks with Dallas Verity, a Regina resident who was raised in the church and worked as a youth pastor before leaving the church after coming to question its reactionary doctrines.

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    45 mins
  • The Saskatchewan United Party

    The Saskatchewan United Party
    Dec 7 2023
    The Sask United Party was registered as a political party in Saskatchewan in November 2022 and since then they've espoused a deeply fascist politic. SUP leader, Nadine Wilson, left the Sask Party caucus in September 2021 after lying about being vaccinated. The party ran its first candidate, oil executive and Evangelical Christian Jon Hromek, in the Lumsden Morse byelection in August 2023. On this episode Alex digs into Wilson and Hromek and unpacks the party's constitution, platform, and propaganda.

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    1 hr
  • John Gormley is a Hack (w/ Jeremy Davis)

    John Gormley is a Hack (w/ Jeremy Davis)
    Nov 23 2023
    More like GONE Gormley. On November 24th conservative hack and area goblin John Gormley will go off the airwaves for good after a quarter century of bloviating from the Rawlco studio. Jeremy Davis joins Alex to talk about Gormley’s legacy. Rest in piss, John!
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • LIVE AT BRIARPATCH'S 50TH - Is Fascism on the Rise in Saskatchewan?

    LIVE AT BRIARPATCH'S 50TH - Is Fascism on the Rise in Saskatchewan?
    Nov 9 2023
    From the anti-trans "parents' rights" bill to the rise of the Sask United Party, the province is moving aggressively to the right. People are increasingly using the term fascism to describe what they're seeing. But fascism is a specific type of right wing politics, and it's not a term to be used lightly. So Alex dug in to the political philosophy of fascism to figure out whether the fash in Sask are really ascendant.


    Sources:

    The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
    The Nature of Fascism by Roger Griffin
    How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
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    50 mins
  • Medicare's Lost Battle

    Medicare's Lost Battle
    Aug 31 2023
    In 1944 the CCF was elected on a platform of implementing medicare. It would take 18 years for that promise to be realized...but the dream realized was a shadow of what had been proposed. How did we get here, what was the vision, and what did we lose?

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    39 mins
  • Lean in: Healthcare on the assembly line w/ Dr. Justin Leifso

    Lean in: Healthcare on the assembly line w/ Dr. Justin Leifso
    Jun 14 2023
    Hoshins? Check. Kaizens? Check. The support of actual healthcare professionals? No check. Lean management has been with the Saskatchewan health care system for over a decade and if we know one thing for sure, it's that health care workers hate it. This episode hears from University of Victoria professor Justin Leifso about how and why the government of Saskatchewan decided to try to run the health care system like a manufacturing plant.

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    48 mins