Simon Enoch
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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- Reposted by Simon EnochHere is my latest. Sylvain Charlebois, Canada's beloved commentator on the food industry, thinks that not giving us access to raw milk is communism. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadas-fo...
- “When asked about specific research used for Bill 11’s design, McKee pointed to a Fraser Institute commentary piece, a Montreal Economic Institute media release, and the video released when Premier Danielle Smith announced the legislation.” calgary.citynews.ca/2026/02/04/a...
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- “You can’t send your child to an aspirational space, it has to be an operational space. They may be in the plans, parents don’t need plans, they need child care that’s up and running,” she said.
- “There’s really a regulatory environment here that is unlike anywhere else in North America, and I don’t say that without truly believing it.” Translation: “we don’t even enforce the minimal regulations we do have” leaderpost.com/news/local-n...
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- “When asked about the province’s numbers, @davidmaccdn.bsky.social said the math was a mystery. He said it appears the province was counting Pre-K or early learning program spaces as new spaces in 2024 when that program has existed since the 1990s.” www.cjme.com/2026/01/28/s...
- Childcare is Saskatchewan is almost wholly funded by the federal government, with SK contributing only 13%. Perhaps a larger provincial govt commitment to this program is required to meet promised targets? www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
- The SK govt claims it has created 91% of the 28,000 new child care spaces targeted in the initial agreement with the federal government in 2021 - in reality it has created only 6915. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/the-last-mile-provincial-child-care-expansion-at-the-five-year-deadline/ 1/2
- If we look exclusively at spaces licensed to centres and homes - and not promises of spaces “under development” - Saskatchewan is actually way behind in its targets - creating only 25 percent of the spaces it promised under the agreement 2/5
- For example, the SK govt is claiming that a PreK program is new in 2024, adding over 5,000 “new” child care spaces in a single year. In fact, that program has existed since 2007, the spaces aren’t new and the PreK space count has been identical since 2014-15. 3/5
- “In nearly every context, ed tech doesn’t come close to the minimum threshold for meaningful learning impact.” www.economist.com/united-state...
- “I mean, it feels like I’m at a firefighters’ conference and no one is allowed to speak about water.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
- Cry me a river buddy....
- Remember when we worried that alot of the rhetoric around inter-provincial trade barriers would lead to a race to the bottom in worker health and safety standards? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- “For-profit child care providers are not shy about the kind of child care system they want, a return to the unaffordable, inaccessible and byzantine system of the past.” paherald.sk.ca/putting-prof...
- @pauldechene.bsky.social essential read of the baseball stadium saga is maddeningly frustrating - I would add that there is no philanthropy in a P3 - private investment is always paid back w/ interest by the public partner. queencityib.com/blog/2026/1/...
- “A more stable relationship with China, including lowering EV tariffs… may be a message to the Americans that we have options and some leverage to withstand some of the more outlandish demands we expect from the CUSMA review.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
- “According to the 2021 Subscription Economy Index, the subscription economy had grown by 437% since 2012.”
- Just saw Congress is making another go at Click-to-cancel. Here's my piece from 2024 theconversation.com/us-governmen...
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- It would be a valuable exercise for some enterprising journalist to ask Scott Moe, the next time he insists on a new pipeline, just how much of the Saskatchewan public’s money he’s willing to contribute if no private proponent can be found.
- “If Canada “must build” a new bitumen pipeline to the BC coast, the pressure will fall on the federal and Alberta governments to pay for some or all of the cost, and over the strong objections of the BC government and First Nations.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
- “If Canada “must build” a new bitumen pipeline to the BC coast, the pressure will fall on the federal and Alberta governments to pay for some or all of the cost, and over the strong objections of the BC government and First Nations.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
- It's certainly no surprise that the Premier would use this as another cynical justification for more pipelines, but how much truth is there to this argument? 1/6 leaderpost.com/business/moe...
- "It’s a catch-22—the more we rely on AI tools, the more we need to be able to critically assess their outputs. Yet the more we use them, the worse we get at doing so." www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
- Excited to see how quickly Canada's political elites embrace NDP Waffle-era "Canada Out of NATO" positions as Trump contemplates annexing Greenland. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
- "By 9:23 a.m. on January 2 Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had already made what the average worker will make all year." CEOs are enjoying another year of smashed records: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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- Also, glad the Premier decided to give an exclusive interview to that bastion of journalistic integrity, Rebel News.
- If this is treachery, then it is just compensation for having to be terrorized by nightly images of fires in Tonawanda courtesy of Buffalo Eyewitness News for my entire childhood in Southern Ontario.
- We all thought it’d be the easy button,” Nielsen said. “And that’s just not what happened.” www.reuters.com/business/bus...
- In October, Second Sons mounted several demonstrations outside CBC offices in Regina and Ottawa, holding signs that read “CBC Hates White People.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- “Up close, this plan is more than an environmental or climate disaster. It simply does not make economic sense and would require massive capital costs that the industry itself does not want to pay.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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- It’s not really Christmas until Teddy Ruxpin berates you for failing to follow the Mass Line. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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- In addition to @pauldechene.bsky.social excellent piece on what a bargain Regina Transit (RT) is, is what a success it has been. RT recorded 7,368,050 boardings in 2019 or 614,000/month on avg. In 2024 RT recorded 9,548,000, or 795,000/month, 2 million more rides! queencityib.com/blog/2025/12...
- “These aren't charities. They're not altruistic organizations. Why would a tech company want to allow their employees to work for the government and pay 100 per cent of their salary..." — Simon Enoch at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
- AI companies will be paid a portion of the savings from claims they deny or, as the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction plan puts it, “compensated based on a share of averted expenditures.” www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
- Ottawa's budget bill wants to end free postage for people who are blind www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/08/n...
- With so much talk of cuts to the City budget - here is what we spend versus other comparable cities on the same services. 1. We spend the most per capita on police services
- “Which raises an obvious question: why ignore an approach that works almost everywhere else? Canada is late to this shift but not too late to learn from it.” www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025...
