Naomi Hunter

https://www.fastcompany.com//the-price-of-solar-electricit

This year’s Human Rights Day is a reminder that we must not let anyone slip through the cracks in our COVID-19 recovery effort. https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day... On International Human Rights Day, we must recommit to the values of promoting equality and fighting for justice for all. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination. The Saskatchewan Green Party will continue our work advocating for Human Rights in our province.

https://www.cbc.ca//indigenous-owned-solar-farm-fort-chip-

This week the Sask Party auctioned off nine parcels of Crown land totalling 1,822 acres to the highest bidder. Please phone your MLA today to demand an end ...to the liquidation of Crown land. This land belongs to future generations and is not the Saskatchewan Party’s to sell. MLA phone list: https://bit.ly/3fxZENB Since coming to power in 2007, the Sask Party has privatized over 1.1 million acres of Crown land in clear violation of Treaty. This land includes formerly protected grassland, wetlands, and aspen parkland that are the territories of the Cree, Saulteaux, Nakota, Dakota, Lakota, and Métis Peoples. With less than 15% of native prairie remaining in Saskatchewan, this land provides essential wildlife habitat and carbon sequestration, and is critically important to Indigenous food sovereignty and language revitalization. Any semblance of reconciliation or action on climate change must begin with protecting the precious little native prairie that remains and keeping it public.

https://leaderpost.com//opinion-we-can-improve-environment

Here is some background on the Sask Party selling off our Crown Land, which they have been doing for many years now: Less than 15% of the land south of Saskatc...hewan's forest is Crown land being managed for the public good and that figure has been sharply reduced since the Sask Party took power. ("Game Management Plan: 2017-2027", Government of Saskatchewan). (For comparison Crown lands account for 94% of the land in British Columbia, and 89% for all of Canada ) Saskatchewan has more than enough private land. In fact, we have 24% OF ALL PRIVATE LAND IN CANADA, but merely 6.5% of the nation's total area ("Land Use in Saskatchewan," P.C.. Rump and Kent Harper, Govt of Sask, 1980). According to the 2006 annual report for the Ministry of Agriculture (the year before the Sask Party came to power) the ministry was at the time administering approximately 7.3 million acres of Crown land that is leased to farmers and ranchers or operated as community pastures. (With the privatization of community pastures over the last decade, almost none of that Crown land is managed for the public interest these days, BUT, as long as it at least remains publicly owned, it COULD in theory be one day included in programs to achieve some of the environmental benefits the Ministry of Environment describes, wistfully, in the screen capture image below (from "Game Management Plan 2018-2028").) The 2006 Ministry of Ag annual report goes on to say that 3.4 M acres of that Crown land, representing one-third of all wildlife habitat in the agricultural region, is reserved from sale and has specialized development restrictions under The Wildlife Habitat Protection Act (WHPA). These natural areas make a significant contribution to maintaining existing wildlife populations and biodiversity across the agricultural region of Saskatchewan. Within a year of taking office, the Brad Wall/Bill Boyd government began selling Crown land at a discount, offering financing alternatives to cash sale. They stated their intention to sell approximately 1.6 million acres of Crown land. By 2014 they were eyeing up the Wildlife Habitat Protection Act lands to see how they might justify selling some of them off. And that is what they are doing now, justifying the sell off of natural landscapes by promising to attach Crown Conservation Easements to titles. (A Crown easement has little value in protecting land when the Government has no capacity or intention to properly monitor or enforce it. As well, easement or no easement, privatizing public land permanently removes portions of the earth and its fruits from the commons we promised to keep, share and protect under treaty, providing access for Indigenous people to continue land-based practices.) While there is no official tally of the amount of Crown land the Sask Party has sold in the south so far I have added up the sales from annual reports since they took office and the total comes to more than 1.1 M acres, which is a significant figure if you consider that we only had 7.3 M acres of public lands in the south in 2006. The Province now has a line item in its budget for sales of Crown land--last year it sold $58 M worth but there have been higher gains in other years. An Editorial I wrote on the topic a couple years ago: https://leaderpost.com//why-saskatchewans-crown-land-shoul

https://leaderpost.com//petition-launched-to-reverse-sask-

"It will be years before he slaughters our families."

The Sask Party just auctioned off nine more parcels of Crown land totaling 1,822 acres--some of it formerly protected as Wildlife Habitat Protection Act lands; all of it our shared heritage as treaty people. Details here: https://mcdougallbay.com/event.php

Saskatchewan is the only province without a proper Wetlands Protection Policy.

Saskatchewan grieves the loss of Fred Sasakamoose today. Condolences to his family. https://leaderpost.com//16ceff27-56af-4032-bdcc-e1f4e5493f

The Schools are trying very hard to quell the spread. But these numbers are quite disturbing. If a child comes to school and is infected, it can still spread rapidly in a school setting. There are just a lot of people there. Three infected people could and have (in these cases), come in contact with a third of a school. If you go to the original article and read the comments, many people are commenting that there were cases in their school and those aren’t listed. There are more...Leader School, Outlook, Centennial High School. https://www.cbc.ca//covid-19-sask-cases-in-schools-1.57805

This beautiful future vision video could literally be the Saskatchewan Green Party plan well. We didn’t produce this but it sure speaks to us! Please give it a watch and a share. This future is possible! https://m.youtube.com/watch

"Over several days in February 2020, as red dresses swung from trees to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, a group of incredible women of all ages from the Wet’suwet’en nation drummed, sang and stood in the way of Coastal GasLink’s attempt to install a gas pipeline on unceded lands. The RCMP eventually arrested seven of those women in front of the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre for occupying the access gate to work sites. The arrests prompted Canada-wide solidarity actions."

Environmental groups, three opposition parties, First Nations oppose today's launch of government's plan to fund new nuclear reactors" https://crednb.ca//environmental-groups-three-opposition/

https://leaderpost.com//mandryk-mlas-should-be-productive-