Hope Takes A Beating
SASK. PARTY FUNDING YANK PUTS INNER-CITY COMMUNITY PROJECT IN PERIL
By Meshon Cantrill
Planet S, Saskatoon
On 20th Street in Saskatoon, an ambitious project that many see as an excellent example of the “hope beats fear” mantra used so prominently by the Sask. Party in the 2007 provincial election campaign has been stopped dead in its tracks — by, ironically, the Sask. Party government. Right at the point when tenders for construction were ready to go out, the provincial government pulled $8 million in funding from the Station 20 West Community Enterprise Centre, money that was committed by the previous NDP administration.
For Saskatoon’s inner-city population, it must seem very much a case of fear kicking the crap out of hope, once again.
