Colleen Topal
colleentopal.bsky.social
Colleen Topal
@colleentopal.bsky.social
🌈🐈‍⬛Saskatchewan
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The UCP: you should be able to fire your MLA, here’s a handy-dandy recall process.

Citizens in 9 Alberta ridings: ok

The UCP: NOT LIKE THAT!
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The hypocrisy of Premier Scott Moe to tell BC to join Team Canada while he puts American liquor back on the shelves and Saskatchewan based Nutrien plans their new plant in Washington State. #CDNpoli
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
Saskatchewan firm's plan to export through Washington state instead of B.C. has David Eby fuming
Vaughn Palmer: Nutrien Ltd. says Longview, Washington, makes more sense than B.C. ports for a host of cost reasons
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November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Today, Oct 18, Saskatchewan still has two active northern wildfires in one of its worst ever fire seasons. Here is a map of the almost 3M ha of SK forest burnt this year. Red is area burned by active fires, grey area burned this year by fires now out. 1/
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Residents of fire-ravaged Saskatchewan village face housing squeeze, high prices www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
Residents of fire-ravaged Saskatchewan village face housing squeeze, high prices
Brittany Holmgren has lived in her hometown her entire life.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Civilians made up 15 of every 16 people killed by Israel in Gaza since March, data suggests

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Civilians made up 15 of every 16 people killed by Israel in Gaza since March, data suggests
Report from independent conflict tracker Acled indicates one of the highest civilian death rates since start of war
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 13 - Sep 26, 2025
Severe: NL, PEI, SK
Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON
High: QC
Moderate: none

About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
September 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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B.C. company takes Saskatchewan government to court over firefighting aviation contract

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B.C. company takes Saskatchewan government to court over firefighting aviation contract | Globalnews.ca
The Saskatchewan government is being taken to court by Coulson Aviation over a sole-sourced contract with Conair Group for four new firefighting planes.
globalnews.ca
September 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Regina Saskatchewan 👀
“So we have a huge problem in Canada…An elected MAGA Conservative MP (Andrew Scheer), aka #WeakAndy, just put a target on a Canadian journalist’s back…” #cdnpoli
September 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Thanks to the incredible support of the G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation at the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation, the U of R’s Cypress Hills Field Station has been beautifully upgraded with modern labs, improved accommodations, and accessible facilities.

Learn more! bit.ly/46jqSSN
Building the future of discovery in the Cypress Hills: The G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation
Thanks to the G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation at the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation, the University of Regina's Cypress Hills Field Station remains a place of discovery, inspiring studen...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan #SKCA has released its decision in the following:

R v Kachroo, 2025 SKCA 80 canlii.ca/t/kf7pw
R v Emereuwa, 2025 SKCA 83 canlii.ca/t/kf7q0
R v Repo, 2025 SKCA 84 canlii.ca/t/kf7q1
September 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Her Shackledness arrives at the courthouse

#RomanaDidulo
September 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Excavator-turned-landmark stuck in Saskatchewan lake removed 11 years later #Saskatchewan
Excavator-turned-landmark stuck in Saskatchewan lake removed 11 years later - Canada News
It took 11 years, loads of equipment and multiple attempts to pull an excavator-turned-landmark out of an east-central Saskatchewan lake.
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August 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Learn to decipher the codespeak.
August 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
August 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This is the bill & guidelines set by Alberta. Bans books by ministerial order like 1984 & Handmaid’s Tale with explicit sexual content. Bans til Gr 10 non-explicit content like pregnancy, breastfeeding or menstruation, so Are you there God it’s me Margaret? kings-printer.alberta.ca/Documents/Mi...
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August 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Conservative governments seem to be great at producing deficits. This on the heels of our own Sask Party govt announcing its own deficit
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta now on track for even bigger budget deficit, now at $6.5B | CBC News
Finance Minister Nate Horner says softening oil prices mean this year's projected budget deficit is expected to grow by $1.3 billion, and will now finish at $6.5 billion in the red when the fiscal yea...
www.cbc.ca
August 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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If I’m employed by the Saskatoon Police Service, this is when I find a whole new career.

It’s like a Temu production of “The Shield” written by the folks who do item descriptions on AliExpress.

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Saskatoon officers break silence on house party that led to 5 suspensions | CBC News
Police officers are speaking out about a backyard hot tub and pool party that ultimately led to the suspension of five officers — including three from the tactical unit — and allegations of assault an...
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August 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Saskatchewan's privacy commissioner found a school division over-collected information from some students, and that privacy risk was compounded when the information was posted online as part of the PowerSchool cyberattack earlier this year.
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PowerSchool failed to purge data, school division over-collected student info, investigation finds | CBC News
The province's information and privacy commissioner examined a cyberattack that breached data from the Prairie Spirit School Division earlier this year
www.cbc.ca
August 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Opinion: This is what depopulation looks like: my home town stands as a warning to the West - The Telegraph

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Opinion: This is what depopulation looks like: my home town stands as a warning to the West — The Telegraph
Europe’s looming demographic crisis and the anxieties that come with it risk turbocharging uncontrollable populist forces
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August 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Just in: Saskatchewan's finances have reversed dramatically, as the province now projects a major deficit. The province says it's forecasting a $349-million deficit this year, down from the original $12-million surplus it had budgeted in the spring. #skpoli
August 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Government spending on culture represents 0.8% of government spending in Saskatchewan!

In 2023-24, the province in Sask spent $198 million on culture, which represents less than one percent of total government spending in the province, as shown in the graph!

Read full report: bit.ly/3JMrTLp
August 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Ukrainians, who paid thousands of dollars to get the temporary status aka TPS (incl doctor exams and getting all vaccines that exist), then thousands to extend it, and now having not received anything on time, need to move or they’ll be separated and deported. The family is moving now to Portugal
August 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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MEIDAS CANADA. COMING SOON. 🇨🇦
August 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM