Moe served in Brad Wall s cabinet before replacing the popular premier and Saskatchewan Party leader in a contest almost three years ago. Just never lose your gut instincts … on where people are, and how people want to be treated, and what they want to hear, Moe said his former boss told him. After months of leading the province through a hard stretch of the pandemic, Moe, 47, begins a new year facing the continued threat of deaths and hospitalizations, plus the added challenge of delivering vaccinations. There’s no doubt that it does weigh on you professionally, but it weighs on you as a person. he said.
Carbon Tax Putting Heavy Burden on Farmers
Fourth-generation Saskatchewan grain farmer Jeff Bennett says increasing the carbon tax won’t reduce his operation’s emissions and risks damaging agribusiness and bankrupting growers.
“Tesla is not making combines or tractors we don’t have that option. But we are doing a very good job of growing environmentally sustainable crops in the global market we compete in, and to put a carbon tax on that makes absolutely no sense,” Bennett told The Epoch Times.
“We are price takers with international competition for all the commodities we grow. We cannot set our price and push the carbon tax part of our bill on to someone else.”
Buffalo Party brings new brand of Prairie populism to Saskatchewan Western alienation has long fuelled populist movements on the Prairies, even transcending definitions of political ideology, experts say.
Author of the article: Phil Tank • Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Publishing date: Dec 29, 2020 • December 29, 2020 • 4 minute read • Wade Sira, interim leader of the Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan, announces the launch of the party s first campaign platform in Warman, Saskatchewan on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. The party was formerly known as Wexit Saskatchewan. (Phil Tank/The StarPhoenix) jpg
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The Buffalo Party launched its first campaign on a breezy October day on the edge of Warman, just 20 days before Saskatchewan people voted in the provincial election.