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Crown Casinos and the Public Good: How Saskatchewan’s Gaming Model Serves the Province
Saskatchewan has operated public gaming as a Crown enterprise since the 1990s, a model rooted in the same philosophy that built SaskTel, SaskPower, and SaskEnergy.
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After the Fall: The Saskatchewan NDP’s Long Road Back
The Saskatchewan NDP governed this province for most of the second half of the twentieth century, and its defeats in 2007, 2011, and 2016 carried a particular sting.
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Prairie Heat: Saskatchewan’s Climate Policy Crossroads
Saskatchewan produces more greenhouse gas emissions per capita than any other province in Canada. It also produces oil, gas, uranium, and potash — commodities the world continues to need.
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Treaty Relationships and the Politics of Reconciliation in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is treaty territory from one end to the other. Eleven numbered treaties, signed between 1874 and 1906, cover every square kilometre of the province.
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Green and White: Why the Saskatchewan Roughriders Are Politics by Other Means
No sports franchise in Canada carries the weight of collective identity that the Saskatchewan Roughriders carry for this province.
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The Farm Vote: How Agricultural Policy Has Always Decided Saskatchewan Elections
In a province where family farms once outnumbered city households, agricultural policy was never merely an economic matter — it was the lens through which Saskatchewan people understood their relationship to government.
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Women Who Shaped Prairie Politics: Saskatchewan’s Overlooked Trailblazers
Saskatchewan women did not gain the right to vote in provincial elections until 1916 — two years before women in most of Canada — and they have been reshaping the political landscape ever since.
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The Brad Wall Years: Boom, Bust, and the Saskatchewan Story
When Brad Wall swept to power in November 2007, Saskatchewan was experiencing an economic revival unseen since the post-war years. Commodity prices were soaring, people were moving to the province.
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Potash and Crown Power: The Fight for Saskatchewan’s Resources
Saskatchewan sits atop roughly a third of the world’s known potash reserves, a geological inheritance that has defined provincial politics for generations.
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Tommy Douglas and Medicare: Saskatchewan’s Greatest Gift to Canada
Tommy Douglas won the 1944 Saskatchewan election on a promise that would change the country forever. His CCF government set about building a welfare state in a wheat-farming province still scarred by the Dirty Thirties.