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Saskatchewan Election Manifesto Analysis, 2024

Hi all. Third of three manifesto analyses for this ballot-iest of Octobers, this time Saskatchewan which goes to the polls today. This one might be the simplest one yet, mainly because Saskatchewan elections—like those in the other two Prairie provinces—are a resolutely two-party affair. It has been 25 years since a third-party MLA has been elected to the legislature, and there is zero danger of that streak being broken tonight. But also because the differences in the two parties’ platforms

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October 28, 2024 No Comments

Saskatchewan in a Nutshell

We have almost come to the end of the nutshell series.  In this, the final installment, we will look at Saskatchewan, which when you think of it is kind of to the other provinces what Canada is to the rest of the world.  The quintessence of Canada, if you will. Taking Saskatchewan last is partly a function of data problems in the province.  As in several other provinces, college numbers are subject to a sudden surge in the late aughts,

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September 14, 2022 2 Comments

Saskatchewan/ BC Manifesto Double-Header

Y’all know I usually do a full blog on manifestos for every provincial election.  And we have two of those coming up – BC on Saturday and Saskatchewan on Monday – so it seemed natural to publish these two today and tomorrow.  But for reasons which will shortly become apparent, I decided to combine them into one.  Both elections speak to bigger issues at play that need attention. Let’s start in Saskatchewan, where the right-of-centre Saskatchewan Party (SP) looks poised

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October 21, 2020 2 Comments

Dual-Track Tuition

The University of Saskatchewan made the Times Higher Education last week when the UK weekly ran a story on the University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and its scheme to admit an extra 25 students per year, provided they pay the full cost of instruction, which is a shade over $60,000. This is about $50,000 more than what students admitted through the current intake process currently pay.  This is not about raising tuition for everyone: it’s about two-tier tuition. There’d be one rate for “top”

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February 11, 2020 3 Comments

Funding Polytechnics v. Funding Universities

Recently, a colleague asked me how big I thought the gap in funding was between polytechnics and universities.  My hunch was that universities were certainly better funded if you include all sources of income, but that if you just looked at core provincial government funding, the gap might not be so large.  So, for giggles, I decided to try to compare the two. Due to the complexity of various funding mechanisms and – especially – the difference in the nature

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February 7, 2018 1 Comment

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