As a person from Regina, our incumbent politicians are bought and paid for by O+G and local conservative interests align to these values, you can’t even get an MP or MLA to talk without them interjecting party rhetoric and official letters come back with generic party templates, rather than actual human interest.
It sadly doesn’t shock me that this pseudo-grassroot movement is backed by the same vested party interests, this is just another funnel to hire fresh faces in order to perpetuate the rhetoric as “concerned citizens” and keep towing the party line of government of do-nothings rather than to be honest, accountable or actionable.
Furthermore, these same cretins actively fund private schools with tax dollars that churn out ACE junk educations and sexually abuse kids in the process (search for “Aaron Travis Benneweis” for proof)
All of this is in order to create a base of conservative-voting true believers that will jump when you tell them to, all from the pulpit.
Welcome to Regina, I hope you enjoy the experience
I grew up in Regina (aka Vagina). Left there over 45 years ago.
I see not much has changed. :/
Being stuck nearly 50 years behind the times is a succinct way of describing Saskatchewan as a whole.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Since 2021, the anonymous group, Advance Regina, has been running thousands of dollars worth of advertising on social media and billboard campaigns complaining about crime, taxes and city services.
Advance Regina bills itself as “local residents who love our city,” but its website and social media presence provides no names of actual people behind the organization.
In the past, she was the Saskatchewan Party’s director of training and a constituency organizer, and just last year Premier Scott Moe nominated her for the Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee Medal for public service, according to her Facebook page.
Aaron Moore, a political science professor from the University of Winnipeg, said that as cities have grown and their budgets have inflated, this issue of third-party activism and donations has become more important.
“Advance Regina has transitioned to focus on issue-based advocacy, citizen and voter engagement, and promoting awareness of the current council’s poor performance.”
Moore, the University of Winnipeg political science professor, said that while there are stringent rules for third-party advertising in provincial and federal elections in Canada, that’s generally not the case for municipalities.
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