Opinion

Dear Editor, Re: Municipal election financing With Saskatchewan’s electoral financing system being decried as “the wild west,” many awkward questions are starting to be asked about how our local politicians fundraise for their campaigns.

Maybe it’s not fair to single Saskatchewan’s NDP opposition for sowing the seeds of division in our world through partisanship.

Congratulations are in order for Yorkton’s mayor and, by extension, city itself. At the first post-election meeting of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA), Bob Maloney was named vice president of cities.

View from the Cheap Seats is an extension of the newsroom, which is frequently a site of heated debate on topics ranging from the extremely serious to the utterly ridiculous.

Maybe it’s not fair to single out Saskatchewan’s New Democratic Party (NDP) opposition for sowing the seeds of division in our world through partisanship.

In 2012, Crown corporations SaskTel, SaskPower, SaskEnergy, SGI, SaskGaming and ISC earned $524.9 million in profits and returned $325.5 million in dividends to government coffers.

“Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive,” said Jhumpa Lahiri.

There is much interest in the fate of the world’s varied ecosystems.

Names are a pretty funny thing.