Unmaking Saskatchewan Podcast
1) Unpacking Saskatchewan's "Liberal surge," NDP collapse, and the future of left electioralism
We're back with a new cohost. In this episode Alex and John break down the results of the federal election in Saskatchewan. We answer the question of whether there was a Liberal surge (spoiler: no), e...Show More
2) Settler Supremacy Revival: Saskatchewan Under Scott Moe
Scott Moe became leader of the Saskatchewan Party (and premier of the province) in 2018, after a hotly contested (and often unpleasant) leadership race. Considered "centre right" and someone who was l...Show More
3) The Fall of Saskatchewan: The Sask Party Under Brad Wall
In 1999 Brad wall was elected for the first time as a Sask Party MLA. Within 8 years, Wall would be premier. A free market capitalist and charismatic salesman, over the next decade Wall would weave a ...Show More
4) Bad Trees Bear Bad Fruit: How the Liberals, PCs, and NDP Sowed the Sask Party
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 coll...Show More
Bad Trees Bear Bad Fruit: How the Liberals, PCs, and NDP Sowed the Sask Party
1:04:01 | Jul 4th, 2024
5) Devine Punishment: The Cost of Electing Conservatives (w/ Simon Enoch)
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 g...Show More
6) The Church Must Gather: Anticipating the Rise of the Canadian Christian Right
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" ...Show More
The Church Must Gather: Anticipating the Rise of the Canadian Christian Right
1:07:58 | Jan 13th, 2024
7) Inside Saskatchewan's Evangelical Movement (w/ Dallas Verity)
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...Show More
8) The Saskatchewan United Party
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 cauc...Show More
9) John Gormley is a Hack
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 joi...Show More
10) LIVE AT BRIARPATCH'S 50TH - Is Fascism on the Rise in Saskatchewan?
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'...Show More