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Ty Thiessen 🌾

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Learning the Art of Public Finance at U of S 🌾 | Commerce Student | Fiscal Policy | Legal Research #skpoli

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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“A simplified royalty on economic rents would help #Sask retain more potash wealth, while enhancing productivity, increasing investment, and reducing uncertainty for investment planning.” #skpoli No better time for potash royalty review in #Saskatchewan thestarphoenix.com/opinion/lett...
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Opinion: No better time for potash royalty review in Saskatchewan
Constraints have led the potash industry to support calls for a royalty review in the past.
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
My latest: “If we continue to resort to tax incrementalism and government spending as the solutions to our economic woes, we will continue to watch the promise of a prosperous future slip away.” #skpoli #cdnpoli #sask thestarphoenix.com/opinion/opin...
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Opinion: Innovative tax systems an opportunity for Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan has an opportunity to develop a tax environment that rewards businesses for investing in wages, jobs and capital.
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#Saskatchewan’s provincial government has enjoyed bragging of job growth. Almost all of this “growth” has been in the public sector, at the expense of taxpayers. August marked the highest public sector share of total employment in #Sask data history. This cannot be sustained. #skpoli #cdnpoli
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
For decades, tax policy in #Saskatchewan has deterred new investment and driven thousands of young workers to leave. We can’t afford to continue down this path. #skpoli #cdnpoli My latest column explores these issues, and provides a potential solution: thestarphoenix.com/opinion/lett...
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Opinion: Saskatchewan's tax structure discourages growth
Saskatchewan cannot continue to discourage growth through its tax structure.
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
For decades, tax policy in #Saskatchewan has deterred new investment and driven thousands of young workers to leave. We can’t afford to continue down this path. #skpoli #cdnpoli My latest column explores these issues, and provides a potential solution: thestarphoenix.com/opinion/lett...
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Opinion: Saskatchewan's tax structure discourages growth
Saskatchewan cannot continue to discourage growth through its tax structure.
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
If spending had grown with inflation and population growth since Premier Moe took office, #Saskatchewan would have spent over $2.3 B less in 2024. That’s enough to cut PST by nearly 75% And yet, services haven’t improved. This is the definition of managerial failure. #skpoli #Sask #cdnpoli
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
It’s clear as day that the Diefenbaker Irrigation Project is a bad deal for #Saskatchewan taxpayers. Over $2 billion in costs for the WIRP at a total best-case tax return of under $600 million is an egregious loss. But it’s also a bad deal for #Sask producers. #skpoli 🧵
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“It’s time for #Saskatchewan to step up to the plate and face the challenges of the day. Budget 2025 is an embarrassment for this province. Let’s not let the rest of this session be the same.” #skpoli #Sask budget leaves province perilously unprepared thestarphoenix.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Saskatchewan's budget leaves province perilously unprepared
Saskatchewan's recent budget is built on egregious assumptions and without the same contingency for the effect of tariffs as other provinces.
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
#Saskatchewan Finance Minister Jim Reiter says his 2025 budget ensures that #Sask is the most affordable for starting a business. #Sask has the third highest marginal tax on investment in #Canada, the highest on oil and gas, and the world’s least competitive royalty for potash. #skpoli #cdnpoli
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Jeremy Simes @jeremysimes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The motion condemns Trump for proposing to annex Canada and imposing tariffs and does not support Canada putting export tariffs on Canadian resources. The motion passes. #skpoli
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Alex Marz @marz.ca · 02/02/2025
Please check out @tythiessen.bsky.social’s break down of the SaskParty Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Debacle on @tammyrobert.bsky.social’s podcast. #skpoli tammyrobert.substack.com/p/pipe-to-pi...
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Pipe To Pivot: Dismantling the Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Debacle, Chapter 1
With Tammy Robert & Ty Thiessen. Produced by Paul Dechene.
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Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide in which Tammy & I talk w/ economics brain-haver @tythiessen.bsky.social about the Westside Diefenbaker Irrigation Project. That'd be the Sask Party's newest mega-project & soon-to-be next billion-dollar boondoogle.
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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.
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Perhaps what strikes me most about #Saskatchewan’s Government is that they’re willing to spend at least $1,000 per taxpayer to support less than 1% of #Sask producers, but they refuse to oppose the Bunge-Viterra Merger which will cost producers $770 million per year. #skpoli #cdnpoli
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liseabetta.bsky.social @liseabetta.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
U of S ag economics associate prof Tristan Skolrud at 27:20. You won't regret listening to his take which is expands upon what Ty Thiessen has posted here. Ask yourselves why are we spending this money for so little in return? #skpoli #saskatchewan www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8_h...
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Is the Diefenbaker irrigation project worth the cost?
YouTube video by CBC News Saskatchewan
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Diefenbaker Irrigation Project shortchanges #Sask by billions in costs and hampered growth. The @SKGov is far better off investing in R+D, which can benefit all producers. My latest: #Saskatchewan's $1.2B irrigation project fails any economic test thestarphoenix.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Saskatchewan's $1.2B irrigation project fails any economic test
Saskatchewan's plan to spend $1.15 billion on the Diefenbaker irrigation project to benefit a small group of farmers fails any cost-benefit analysis.
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Darcy Warrington @darcywarrington.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
2024 was a year of exceptional people, hard work and learning a lot. I’m honoured to start this year as the MLA for Stonebridge. 2024 will be tough to beat but we’re sure going to try! #saskNDP #Saskatoon
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
It’s clear as day that the Diefenbaker Irrigation Project is a bad deal for #Saskatchewan taxpayers. Over $2 billion in costs for the WIRP at a total best-case tax return of under $600 million is an egregious loss. But it’s also a bad deal for #Sask producers. #skpoli 🧵
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
My latest column in the StarPhoenix and Leader-Post: Opinion: Forecasts show #Sask economic strategy is failing #Saskatchewan's lagging economy can be traced to its ongoing maintenance of one of the most inefficient and distortionary tax regimes in the country. leaderpost.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Forecasts show Saskatchewan’s economic strategy is failing
Saskatchewan's lagging economy can be traced to its ongoing maintenance of one of the most inefficient and distortionary tax regimes in the country.
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Laurence Thompson @thompsonlg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Excellent analysis of the weaknesses in Saskatchewan govt’s economic strategy & 3 major changes in strategy to improve economic growth. #skpoli
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Lagging growth in #Saskatchewan is the result of the failed economic strategy of our government. Our tax regime adds costs and risks for investors. Our buffet of grants and tax credits fails to produce growth. Tax reform across the board needs to be on the table. #skpoli 🧵
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Greg MacEachern @gregmaceachern.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Sask. Party government blocks NDP from calling former MLA to testify on hotel controversy thestarphoenix.com/news/local-n...
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Sask. Party government blocks NDP from calling former MLA to testify on hotel controversy
A motion from the NDP Opposition failed in its bid to get former Sask. Party MLA Gary Grewal to appear as a witness before the assembly.
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
According to the Mid-Year Report of the Government of #Saskatchewan, weaker potash prices, and higher than “expected” agriculture expense related to crop insurance claims have more than doubled the deficit from the First Quarter to $734.50 million. #skpoli 🧵
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JanFromTheBruce 🍁 @janfromthebruce.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
During the 1993 election Chrétien (Liberal leader) promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Won the election in a landslide. Chretien failed to win concessions he promised to get in his election campaign, and in 1995 signed the agreement. So both Cons & Libs #cndpoli
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Brian Mulroney deserves credit for a small few things, like reducing our reliance on economically costly taxes on income by introducing the GST…but of the many policies he deserves the opposite of thanks for, NAFTA comes at the top of the list. #cdnpoli #abpoli #skpoli 🧵
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
In today’s throne speech, the Government of #Saskatchewan committed to “ensuring that its investments produce results”. If this is an honest commitment, then the #Sask Party will commit to scrapping the WIRP, otherwise known as the Diefenbaker Irrigation Project. Here’s why: #skpoli 🧵
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The #Saskatchewan NDP’s response to scurvy in northern #sask is inappropriate, poor public policy, and a missed political opportunity. Axing the gas tax will have no significant impact on food prices and will blow a major hole in the budget. There are superior alternatives. #skpoli 🧵
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In the first 3 quarters of 2024, not a single province in #Canada added housing space when considering population growth. #cdnpoli On a per-capita population growth basis, #Saskatchewan was second last. The province effectively lost 5,154 units with population growth. #skpoli
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Margi Corbett @sheepdogsrock.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Shercom was unfairly excluded from a request for proposals to award a second tire recycler in Saskatchewan when negotiations were "predetermined and locked into awarding" services to an American based company instead. saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/saskatchewan...
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Saskatchewan tire recycler suing province for $10M over multiple year contract dispute
A Saskatoon rubber manufacturer is taking the province to court, claiming millions of dollars in damages for breach of a contract as part of a dispute that's lasted more than two years.
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Ty Thiessen 🌾 @tythiessen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
#Saskatchewan has the worst royalty regime in the world. The #Sask Potash Royalty regime not only shortchanges Saskatchewan people on a resource they own…it drives away investment. My latest column #skpoli Saskatchewan can no longer ignore potash royalty reform thestarphoenix.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Saskatchewan can no longer ignore potash royalty reform
An updated and sensible royalty system for potash in Saskatchewan would help provide potential investors with the stability they want.
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