Ian Hanna
@ianhanna
Raconteur, iconoclast, excrement aeration, hellscape tour guide.
"No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again, and bring the dawn." — Maya Angelou
A facile attempt by CIC Comms to spin this issue. SaskPower's own Finance and Audit Committee assessed the risk of the proposal YOU picked as "Extreme". Don't drag public servants into your political shenanigans by asking them to give you cover. If there's any public confidence lost, that's on govt
www.40Billion.moe. Sask. Party's reputation for fiscal prudence lies in tatters.
For a sitting Prime Minister, blowing a 13,000 vote margin and slipping to third place is not a good thing, even if it is only a byelection. Things are about to get weird in the UK again
Politics is such a funny business. People look invincible and events look inevitable, until they are not. You wake up one morning and people are writing about the stench of death surrounding your administration.
Once again, Sask. has attracted the attention of the NYTimes for all the wrong reasons (Ian Austen's Canada Day Letter). Why is it that Neal Young's Alabama has come to mind? Oh ya. When the majority threatens to sweep away the rights of a vulnerable minority, people are supposed to speak up.
As the UK Conservatives have a dreadful conference and poll at 16%, I realize I am deriving just a bit too much joy from the misfortune of others.
Jenni, you saw the terrain shift dramatically, and did nothing to pivot. Nothing you could have done differently? Come on. At least be honest with yourself, if not the rest of us.
Ornamental clouds compose an evening love song; a road leaves evasively. The new moon begins a new chapter of our nights, of those frail nights we stretch out and which mingle with these black horizontals. Rainer Maria Rilke
If you proposed this as a novel, the premise would be rejected as too unbelievable. The unravelling of satire and fiction continues in the US.
A useful addition to our political vocabulary today from UK Labour, as it suspends 3 MPs for "persistent knobheadery". One might wonder how many SK MLAs and MPs would be left if similar standards were adopted in this province.
Once again, Marina Hyde hits the perfect note; the UK has a dysfunctional government unable to fix the country, or fix itself. Sounds a lot like Sask. politics. Functioning education, health care and forest-fire fighting systems seem like reasonable expectations for citizens. Things seem broken.
This is over. Someone has to be held accountable…maybe not the right person. But given the fix they are in, she’ll be gone in a week. UK politics seems to be going through a sustained period of unrest, instability and dysfunction.
Remember who you are dealing with: no concessions until you see the deal. Trump can smell the weakness.
Entirely predictable outcomes that could/should have been predicted and factored into decision-making. Now, no one knows where the enriched uranium is and the world is much less safe. Irresponsible.
As the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg reminds us, the weekend's events are not isolated, but come with historical antecedents. In the foreign policy vernacular of the region "you break it, you own it" means intervention is easy to start, but hard to end.