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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide
by Tammy Robert & Paul Dechene
It's giving hot takes on stone cold Saskatchewan politics. tammyrobert.substack.com
Episodes
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Live with Tammy Robert
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep. 144
Been a busy summer for both Paul and I. In this episode we covered: * Regina City Council’s new budget process. * How media coverage distorts municipal budgeting. * Everyday challenges facing Saskatoon and Regina, from overdoses to late-night empty buses to the shifting Cathedral neighbourhood. *...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep: 143
In this episode, Tammy and Paul dive into the latest buzz around pop star Chappell Roan’s hit song “The Subway,” which unexpectedly put Saskatchewan on the pop culture map. We critically examine the disconnect between Roan’s celebratory tone and the province’s social realities, including human...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 141
We had an in-depth discussion on the leadership of Mark Carney: promises versus reality, federal austerity plans, and skepticism over dramatic cuts to CBC and Via Rail. We also took an inside look at turmoil within the Saskatchewan Party following the abrupt exit of executive director Patrick...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep. 140
In this episode Paul and I try to clear our summer brain fog, nostalgic for a time when a relentless stream of wildfires and smoke didn’t define our glorious but brief reprieve from the snow in Saskatchewan. But this is the new normal: earlier, longer wildfire seasons and the persistent haze of...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 139
Can’t actually believe it’s been six weeks since we released a podcast. Apologies. There’s been a lot going on. In this extended episode we discuss the Saskatchewan government’s handling of wildfires as well as their “decision” to continue burning coal. After spending time in Regina for the first...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 138
In this episode… * Regina’s Fluoridation Debate: Councillor Bezo’s anti-fluoride push pushed back when his expert was discredited right in front of him. * Costco-GTH Controversy: Costco’s plan to build inside Regina city limits (and conveniently, on property owned by mega-Sask Party supporter…
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 137
Paul and Tammy go over the federal election results and what they might mean for Saskatchewan, the Sask Party and Saskatchewan NDP. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tammyrobert.substack.com/subscribe
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep. 136
This was supposed to be an episode dedicated entirely to the REAL debacle, but we ended up working in a bit more federal election chat with the release of Rubicon Strategies, doing a bit deep dive on Saskatoon and Regina. Then we get into REAL which to me is so representative of the expensive,...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep. 135
We recorded this episode on Friday evening, but my weekend got away from me. In it we talk federal election politics in Saskatchewan, as well as this gong show involving Dollarama Donna Harpauer here, Sask Party MLA for Humboldt, Racquel Hilbert. This is just an excerpt of her performance in the...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 134
Here’s your show notes: Okay it’s not that bad, but we are kind of all over the place, from the City of Regina’s budget shitshow to the Scott Moe shitshow. Perhaps more entertainingly(?), in this episode we address my relationship with the male species of Saskatchewan. “She hates men!” Heard it...
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Episode 3: Pipe2Pivot
Produced by Paul Dechene. In this episode we dive back into the controversial Diefenbaker Irrigation Expansion Project, a multi-billion-dollar initiative and a high-stakes gamble for Saskatchewan taxypayers, with shaky economics, outdated planning, and significant environmental risks. Ty and I…
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep. 133
Pretty sure we talked about Trump, Saskatchewan and tariffs. My take, for better or worse, on Telemiracle. Good news: after a brief hiatus thanks to February break and the subsequent emergence of Flumaggedon 2025 (who has not been sick, raise your hand you should be studied), Ty and I just…
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 132
We didn’t forget about you. February break and kids got in the way of recording last week. The stats on that episode exploded, however, so maybe we should slow down output? I don’t know. Anyway, this one is more of a catchup between Dechene and I than anything hard-hitting. Needless to say…
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Pipe To Pivot: Dismantling the Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Debacle, Chapter 2
In this episode we go back to the beginning - the very beginning. From Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s vision for the project to Tommy Douglas’s enthusiastic cheerleading to Ralph Goodale refusing to let it go, this is one mega project that has been quite the multi-partisan affair over the last...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 131
We recorded this one just on Monday so it’s pretty fresh. After a quick recap of Sunday’s brilliant (in my opinion, not so much Dechene’s) Superbowl halftime performance, we get into the GOP lobbyist who Saskatchewan residents have been paying $33,000 USD per month for an eye-watering 16 years.…
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 130
In which Dechene torments me with clips of Scott Moe in a news event earlier today, and I tell stories about what I learned when I spent a year living in the middle of a drug-running corridor from South America to Mexico. Spoiler alert: I didn’t learn that the Sinaloa cartel is hot for the...
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Pipe To Pivot: Dismantling the Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Debacle, Chapter 1
A Saskatchewan Survivor’s Guide podcast. Whew! That’s a whole bunch of words to tell you we’re doing a spinoff devoted to Ty Thiessen’s extraordinary knowledge of the Sask Party government’s Westside Irrigation Rehabilitation Project (WIRP). Specifically, why this project is a smoking dumpster…
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 129
We recorded this episode on Jan 20th so I think we talked about the world ending. You know, this whole Trump thing - it’s not great. I’m in a rush this morning but wanted to get this posted. Enjoy!! T This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
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Saskatchewan Survival Guide: Ep 128
We talked the Westside Diefenbaker Irrigation project with special guest and agriculture economist wunderkind Ty Thiessen. Throughout the episode we reference a KPMG report, which can be found here. This monolithic boondoggle is worthy of its own show, as is the extraordinary detail to which Ty…
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep. 127
Dechene and I get into my experience living both ends of the conservative rage hoe, then I rage some more about the fact the Sask NDP caucus has been muzzled from speaking out on the massive issues impacting our world right now. What was the point of growing the Saskatchewan NDP Opposition caucus...
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Saskatchewan Survivors' Guide: Ep. 126
We decided to record this last minute Monday night, at which point Scott Moe had not yet commented. He has now, apparently. I haven’t looked. My expectations are non-existent. Talk soon, T This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
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Saskatchewan Survivors' Guide: Ep. 125
We looked at both Scott Moe and Carla Beck’s year-end interviews with Saskatchewan reporters and surprise! We roast both of them. In respect to Carla Beck, we discussed the bombshell she dropped that she and Scott Moe made some kind of pre-election pact? While Beck made it sound par for the…
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Saskatchewan Survivors' Guide: Ep 124
We talk to former senior aide to United States congressman Seth Moulton, Saskatoon's Matt Chilliak, on his front row experience of the US election campaign & its aftermath on the US Dems. Chilliak played an unexpected role in a political reckoning that began almost the day after Trump won, again....
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 123 (again)
Technically the last episode was 122, but I labeled it 123. This is 123 - or the 23rd episode of this super fun little project we’ve been working on for the past 4 months. Recorded it on Sunday and I can’t remember what happened five minutes ago, especially this week, but I know we talked about...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 122
The Riders, AC/DC and Paul’s best idea ever (so far)…Divine Devine: The Musical Presented predominantly in drag, obviously. I know, right?? Such a good idea. We’re probably not getting Creative Saskatchewan funding for it. Survivalists, this isn’t the last podcast of the year but after 23…
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 121
We recorded this on Sunday, but I held it because I was wanted to get this companion piece published first: In it I included a graphic that I was originally only going to share with paid subscribers, but then remembered it’s Christmas and decided to share it with everyone: Anyway, I’m convinced...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 120
Dechene’s back from a tour of Alberta’s heartland. In a SUV! Did he come back flying F*ck Trudeau flags? We find out. We also talk about the Conservative Party of Canada’s latest fun attack on municipal politicians. At this point, between PP referring to municipal politicians as “incompetent,...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide Ep. 119
I think I talked far more than Dechene in this one, which addresses what I covered in my last written post: I don’t understand what happened to Bronwyn Eyre. Maybe it’s me, just not grasping what that kind of power does to a person. I remember her being kooky and different, but not… whatever this...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep. 118
In this episode we talked about municipal election results, the NDP’s new “Shadow Cabinet” and more on why Scott Moe could be out of the premier’s chair in a matter of weeks and months, not years. Enjoy, T Remember, we’re using ‘F**k Scott Moe’ as our theme song because, well, is there a more...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep 117
There’s a lot going on at the moment in various global political spheres, but Regina, Saskatchewan is certainly giving all it’s got on crazy. Nobody knows more about all that than Dechene, seriously. We talked about that, as well the inanity of Scott Moe claiming he “misspoke” when he said the...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Ep. 116
Like I said, it’s feast or famine around here, right? We recorded again yesterday and I see Dechene cut the s**t out of it; thank goodness for that. Did I babble incoherently? Oh yes, I sure did. I feel sorry for Dechene (not really) having to go back and make sense of me. Anyway what’s left is...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide Ep 115
I don’t have much to say about anything this morning, besides that we recorded this yesterday morning. You know, in the Before Times. I’m just kidding - I’m not quite on board with the fullblown End of America As We Know It themes this morning. However, this is not the world many of us were…
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide Ep 114
While “rapid response” is a communications skill I think I’m slowly beginning to master, “rapid analysis” is most certainly not. It’s going to take a while to process what happened last night. It should - it’s a lot of new information about the province we live in. Therefore in the spirit of...
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide Ep 113
Another podcast!! Honestly, I can’t get over the response to this product. You folks are amazing. Your feedback has been incredible, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Dechene and I had a few minutes this morning so decided to have one last pre-vote chat. It’ll give you something to listen…
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep. 112
I know, two podcast releases in one day? Madness, but here we are. Full disclosure: Cathy Sproule is one of my closest people. I’m not using “friends” or “family” because to me, she’s both. She supported me through some mind-numbingly difficult times - made me feel like a human being, when I just...
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide Ep. 111
Remember when we started doing this and I was all “we’re going to have a schedule”? Turns out neither Dechene and I are “schedule” people, per say. 😂 We recorded this one on Thursday October 24, 2024. I think - these last days of the election are kind of running together. Personally, I’ll be…
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep. 110
We recorded this one Monday October 21, 2024, which feels like forever ago. Suffice to say we talked about the rock bottom being scraped by the Sask Party’s 2024 campaign team. I’ll leave it at that and let you listen - enjoy! T This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep. 108
This pod is shorter than usual and thank goodness for that, because I was all over the map. Dechene is awesome as usual. We recorded immediately after last night’s debate. I struggled to come up with anything useful, so don’t judge me. Again this morning, I still don’t feel like I have anything...
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep. 107
Huge thank you to Randy Weekes for joining Paul and I for this special episode. Weekes is the consummate professional politician. He most definitely knows how to answer questions like one. :) For me, the takeaway from meeting and chatting with Randy Weekes is twofold: a) The situation in the Sask...
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep. 106
Last weekend I asked Twitter what Dechene and I should talk about next; the response was overwhelming. Since there were so many issues, we recorded them on Monday (October 7, 2024) as their own episode. From asbestos in public infrastructure to the historical influence of the Saskatchewan...
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep. 105
Happy Monday! In today’s episode, which was recorded yesterday morning (Sunday October 6, 2024), I wandered around while we chatted, not realizing my laptop mic was the one being recorded (as opposed to the one I was holding) so unfortunately my audio is kind of all over the map. But you’ll get…
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Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide: Emergency Election Edition
Critical thinking skills. Long-term memory. Courage. Those are the tools you’re going to need to survive the landslide of b******t heading our way. Dechene and I poured a coffee and talked about them. We also touched on Moe’s video, released yesterday, Canada’s Day of Truth and Reconciliation…
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep. 103
I need to start writing down what Dechene and I talk about right after we record. While my long-term memory is sharp, I tend to not be able to remember what I had for breakfast. We did definitely talk about the fact that Carla Beck is the first Saskatchewan NDP leader in almost twenty years who’s...
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep. 102
The word of the day is “interference”. Federal-political interference, via third-party groups, in municipal campaigns. Religious interference in the election of school board trustees. Sask Party jackoffs interfering in the delivery of services they know absolutely nothing about, like medicine and...
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The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide, Ep. 101
As Paul and Tammy get used to the new podcast and each other, they share a bit about their backgrounds and perspectives. Of course, SaskVotes 2024 came up a few times too. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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