Gormley: Urban-rural political split in Saskatchewan not so simple now

Saskatchewan’s latest “back to the future” episode should be greeted with skepticism as certain pundits have returned to the old issue of an urban-rural split in provincial politics.
For much of the 1990s and early 2000s, Saskatchewan’s two political movements featured a powerful NDP in the cities while the fledgling Saskatchewan Party (and its earlier predecessor non-socialist parties) held rural ridings. The narrative was left wing NDP cities versus right wing coun