Tempers flared outside the Saskatchewan legislature on Thursday afternoon when indigenous, leftist, and pro‑Hamas protestors swarmed a planned pro‑life rally, while the Regina Police Service (RPS) and Legislature Peace Officers (PO) watched.The Saskatchewan Pro Life Association had a permit for its event advocating for “human rights from conception to natural death.” Organizers began setting up shortly after noon, arranging placards and a portable sound system for speeches scheduled to start around 1:30 pm CST..Their speeches were cut short around 1:45 pm CST, when roughly a dozen counter‑protestors poured down the legislature’s steps and interfered with the pro life event. They played music promoting being transgender, queer, and other sexual minorities.“If you were pro‑life, you’d be pro‑people who are queer, pro‑people who are in houselessness, pro‑Palestine,” one leftist instigator shouted through a loudspeaker. .Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” blared from a speaker drowning out the pro‑life group’s opening prayer. .The same leftist instigator shouted, “I love abortion because it is healthcare,” drawing cheers from her supporters..Carla Taylor‑Brown, one of the organizers for the pro‑life event, said children in her group were disturbed by counter‑protestors. “Security told us earlier they would move any protestors along,” Taylor-Brown told the Western Standard. “Instead, they only got louder and more aggressive.”RPS had about ten officers on-site but reported no arrests and did not attempt to separate the two groups. The POs said both gatherings were lawful. .No injuries were reported despite a few shoving matches, though Taylor‑Brown said her group is weighing a formal complaint to the legislature, arguing their permit “meant nothing once the counter‑protest took over.”Leftist protestors declined interviews, saying their chants and signs spoke for themselves.The legislature’s security guidelines allow multiple demonstrations on provincial grounds but urge participants to respect bookings made by other groups. In Saskatchewan, there’s been an increasing amount of heated protests at the legislature and across the province, with one PO saying she only “expects it to get worse.”
Tempers flared outside the Saskatchewan legislature on Thursday afternoon when indigenous, leftist, and pro‑Hamas protestors swarmed a planned pro‑life rally, while the Regina Police Service (RPS) and Legislature Peace Officers (PO) watched.The Saskatchewan Pro Life Association had a permit for its event advocating for “human rights from conception to natural death.” Organizers began setting up shortly after noon, arranging placards and a portable sound system for speeches scheduled to start around 1:30 pm CST..Their speeches were cut short around 1:45 pm CST, when roughly a dozen counter‑protestors poured down the legislature’s steps and interfered with the pro life event. They played music promoting being transgender, queer, and other sexual minorities.“If you were pro‑life, you’d be pro‑people who are queer, pro‑people who are in houselessness, pro‑Palestine,” one leftist instigator shouted through a loudspeaker. .Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” blared from a speaker drowning out the pro‑life group’s opening prayer. .The same leftist instigator shouted, “I love abortion because it is healthcare,” drawing cheers from her supporters..Carla Taylor‑Brown, one of the organizers for the pro‑life event, said children in her group were disturbed by counter‑protestors. “Security told us earlier they would move any protestors along,” Taylor-Brown told the Western Standard. “Instead, they only got louder and more aggressive.”RPS had about ten officers on-site but reported no arrests and did not attempt to separate the two groups. The POs said both gatherings were lawful. .No injuries were reported despite a few shoving matches, though Taylor‑Brown said her group is weighing a formal complaint to the legislature, arguing their permit “meant nothing once the counter‑protest took over.”Leftist protestors declined interviews, saying their chants and signs spoke for themselves.The legislature’s security guidelines allow multiple demonstrations on provincial grounds but urge participants to respect bookings made by other groups. In Saskatchewan, there’s been an increasing amount of heated protests at the legislature and across the province, with one PO saying she only “expects it to get worse.”
