Simon Enoch
@simonenoch.bsky.social
Senior Researcher - Saskatchewan - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Interested in populism, propaganda and political economy. "Good things all get shoved in shadows."
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This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
An awful lot of these departments claiming AI will reduce their costs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Here's what each federal department plans to cut under Budget 2025 | CBC News
Tuesday's federal budget offers a glimpse into how dozens of government departments plan to rein in spending following this summer's comprehensive expenditure review. Here's a department-by-departmen...
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
An awful lot of these departments claiming AI will reduce their costs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“Following Mandryk’s departure, the newspapers have published just four columns focused directly on Saskatchewan government policies as of Nov. 1. One was penned by a University of Saskatchewan finance student and three by the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation.” j-source.ca/no-room-for-...
No room for debate - J-Source
Postmedia quietly whittles away local viewpoints from the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post. Photo by P.W. Elliott
j-source.ca
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“Following Mandryk’s departure, the newspapers have published just four columns focused directly on Saskatchewan government policies as of Nov. 1. One was penned by a University of Saskatchewan finance student and three by the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation.” j-source.ca/no-room-for-...
I believe this what Lenin meant by “dual power.”
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I believe this what Lenin meant by “dual power.”
“Applauding the prime minister too much would diminish his utility as a catch-all villain that can be blamed for every misfortune that befalls Alberta and Saskatchewan.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Will the feds’ climate climb down placate petro-province premiers? - CCPA
Perhaps lost in yesterday’s federal budget news dominated by job cuts and military spending is the extent to which the federal government is also abandoning the climate commitments of the previous gov...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“Applauding the prime minister too much would diminish his utility as a catch-all villain that can be blamed for every misfortune that befalls Alberta and Saskatchewan.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
“This budget contains a poison pill of deep funding cuts, the extent of which hasn’t been witnessed since the Harper cuts of 2011 to 2014.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election - CCPA
With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“This budget contains a poison pill of deep funding cuts, the extent of which hasn’t been witnessed since the Harper cuts of 2011 to 2014.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
“The problem is Alberta and Saskatchewan have adopted a worldview that says that's simply not necessary, which forces the feds to bring out the stick … which sets us up for a constitutional showdown,”
A showdown is looming as petro-provinces and nearly 100 oil and gas executives pressure Carney to walk back the workhorse policy for emissions reductions: the industrial carbon price.
Canada risks becoming 'rust-belt petrostate' without industrial carbon pricing, critics say
A showdown is looming as petro-provinces and nearly 100 oil and gas executives pressure Carney to walk back Ottawa's role enforcing the industrial carbon price.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The problem is Alberta and Saskatchewan have adopted a worldview that says that's simply not necessary, which forces the feds to bring out the stick … which sets us up for a constitutional showdown,”
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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The feds will likely quietly “sunset” programs as part of their cost-cutting in the Nov 4 budget.
@davidmaccdn.bsky.social examines 84 federal departments that may rely on saving money by letting hundreds of programs disappear when their funding runs out
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
@davidmaccdn.bsky.social examines 84 federal departments that may rely on saving money by letting hundreds of programs disappear when their funding runs out
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Budget cuts by stealth: Letting programs “sunset” to cut costs won’t be painless - CCPA
The feds will quietly “sunset” programs as part of their cost-cutting in the November 4, 2025 budget. Quiet cuts can still hurt.
www.policyalternatives.ca
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The feds will likely quietly “sunset” programs as part of their cost-cutting in the Nov 4 budget.
@davidmaccdn.bsky.social examines 84 federal departments that may rely on saving money by letting hundreds of programs disappear when their funding runs out
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
@davidmaccdn.bsky.social examines 84 federal departments that may rely on saving money by letting hundreds of programs disappear when their funding runs out
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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WATCH: Sask. physician blasts province’s plans for involuntary addictions treatment
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October 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
WATCH: Sask. physician blasts province’s plans for involuntary addictions treatment
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Flores said that “questions remain about the wider effects of criminalizing harm reduction supplies.” She expressed concern about whether the act serves as a stepping stone to a “forced treatment” approach to addictions care from the province. leaderpost.com/news/local-n...
Regina city council passes bylaw to enable Safe Public Spaces Act targeting street weapons
Regina city council has cleared the last hurdle for opting in to Sask. legislation controlling the possession of weapons in public spaces.
leaderpost.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Flores said that “questions remain about the wider effects of criminalizing harm reduction supplies.” She expressed concern about whether the act serves as a stepping stone to a “forced treatment” approach to addictions care from the province. leaderpost.com/news/local-n...
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In the newest edition of the Monitor from @policyalternatives.ca "Western Canadian politicians have not been mere spectators as the flames of western discontent have gathered strength... No, they are the arsonists." By @simonenoch.bsky.social
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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The arsonists: The politicians stoking the fires of Western separatism - CCPA
The same federal government who alienated our oil and gas industry is now putting global food security at risk by attacking the hard working agriculture producers across western Canada with an arbitra...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In the newest edition of the Monitor from @policyalternatives.ca "Western Canadian politicians have not been mere spectators as the flames of western discontent have gathered strength... No, they are the arsonists." By @simonenoch.bsky.social
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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With SK being lobbied to build these here, we are expecting volatile fresh water supplies on SK to provide more irrigation, cool reactors, expand mining & fracking, satiate growing populations and slake AI thirst? www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News
Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.
www.cbc.ca
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
With SK being lobbied to build these here, we are expecting volatile fresh water supplies on SK to provide more irrigation, cool reactors, expand mining & fracking, satiate growing populations and slake AI thirst? www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
The very strange history of "parental rights" and child labour. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The very strange history of "parental rights" and child labour. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
“The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives estimated that 59 per cent of the employees whose jobs will be cut will be women, 5.5 per cent will be Indigenous people, 26 per cent will likely be racialized and 8.3 per cent will have a disability.” ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
Cuts will impact women and racialized public servants disproportionately, new analysis says
An estimated 59 per cent of the workers cut will be women, according to a new analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
ottawacitizen.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives estimated that 59 per cent of the employees whose jobs will be cut will be women, 5.5 per cent will be Indigenous people, 26 per cent will likely be racialized and 8.3 per cent will have a disability.” ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
“If roughly one in three flights is delayed,” she said, “that means thousands of flight attendants are losing hours of pay every month through no fault of their own.”
About a third of Canadian flights are delayed each year, and passengers and crews pay the price. Read the details in our latest analysis.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“If roughly one in three flights is delayed,” she said, “that means thousands of flight attendants are losing hours of pay every month through no fault of their own.”
Wanted to respond to some of the arguments put forward against the idea postal banking.
October 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Wanted to respond to some of the arguments put forward against the idea postal banking.
Fascinating discussion, highly recommend
I was delighted to speak to Alan Finlayson for the @lrb.co.uk's On Politics. We take on the digital right (and online left), the champions of inegalitarianism, print and social democracy, Farage as influencer and... whether the internet is just right-wing.
October 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Fascinating discussion, highly recommend
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“As we would expect any other business to expand to improve its revenue, I don’t see why Canada Post shouldn’t be allowed to explore those options [including postal banking] as well.” @simonenoch.bsky.social, senior researcher with @policyalternatives.ca www.thestar.com/business/wou...
Would you go to Canada Post for your mortgage? Why advocates think postal banking could be a lifeline for the Crown corp.
Amidst the labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, a debate concerning the future of post offices across the country has once again taken the stage: Should Canada ...
www.thestar.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“As we would expect any other business to expand to improve its revenue, I don’t see why Canada Post shouldn’t be allowed to explore those options [including postal banking] as well.” @simonenoch.bsky.social, senior researcher with @policyalternatives.ca www.thestar.com/business/wou...
“It’s pretty clear that’s because they don’t want to be told that they’re violating the rights of minorities, and vulnerable youth most especially when it comes to trans and gender-diverse youth in the case of Saskatchewan…”
"Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario have all lined up at the Supreme Court to say that when a government invokes the Notwithstanding Clause, the courts should stay out and not even look at the case."
The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine
When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours
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October 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“It’s pretty clear that’s because they don’t want to be told that they’re violating the rights of minorities, and vulnerable youth most especially when it comes to trans and gender-diverse youth in the case of Saskatchewan…”
For a place like Canada that has a banking oligopoly and a telecom oligopoly, maybe a public option provided by the post office would be a welcome addition,” said Enoch.
www.thestar.com/business/wou...
www.thestar.com/business/wou...
Would you go to Canada Post for your mortgage? Why advocates think postal banking could be a lifeline for the Crown corp.
Amidst the labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, a debate concerning the future of post offices across the country has once again taken the stage: Should Canada ...
www.thestar.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
For a place like Canada that has a banking oligopoly and a telecom oligopoly, maybe a public option provided by the post office would be a welcome addition,” said Enoch.
www.thestar.com/business/wou...
www.thestar.com/business/wou...
In the modern university, you have more professional administrators filling these roles, and faculty are less consulted. You also lose focus on the teaching and research mission. Professional administrators will have their own interests that might not be the same thesheaf.com/2025/10/07/w...
The Sheaf
THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In the modern university, you have more professional administrators filling these roles, and faculty are less consulted. You also lose focus on the teaching and research mission. Professional administrators will have their own interests that might not be the same thesheaf.com/2025/10/07/w...
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icymi - “Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including… a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.” www.afr.com/companies/pr...
Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report
Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.
www.afr.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
icymi - “Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including… a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.” www.afr.com/companies/pr...