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An NDP staffer followed up with MacPherson, telling him the decision to hold the press conference was “based on the information we had and what we knew at the time.”

To recap, the NDP unknowingly held a press conference to call on the province to step into a court matter that did not exist.

Even more baffling, they did not issue any sort of public retraction or correction — which is misleading at best.

Everything gets a week

The province does this thing where it proclaims weeks dedicated to certain causes, industries or events.

Sometimes they overlap. You can be forgiven for not knowing the week of May 28 was the official Disability Service Professionals week, Diverse Tourism Experiences week and Saskatchewan Mining Week. The week of June 11 was proclaimed Deafblind Awareness Week.

This week will likely be the official week for something else. Would love to see someone try and celebrate all of the week’s in one week.

Worth noting: The province proclaims weeks largely based on requests from certain groups … so we can’t put this all on the province.

McCall wears his words

In April, during a legislative debate, NDP Regina-Elphinstone MLA Warren McCall said he wanted to go on the record with how great the people who work for SARCAN are. He then noted it was established under former Conservative premier Grant Devine and said, “You know, far be it from me to pass up an opportunity to say, you know, even the Grant Devine government got a few things right and this would be one of them.”