With all the last few posts being so specific, I think it’s time we stumbled a little into the abstract for a bit. (I’ve tried to write a few specific blog posts over the past couple weeks, only to find myself deleting them over not quite liking the direction they
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Canadian Political Viewpoints: Saskatchewan Round-Up
Source: Star Phoenix: Contract Was to Produce Spin, NDP SaysSource: CBC News: Sask. Government Pays to Study Film Tax Credit After it was CutSource: Leader Post: Sask. Party Not Straight on IPAC-CO2 There’s a few things to talk about, so let’s move on and get to talking. We’ll start with
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Saskatchewan Budget Day
Well, it was Budget Day here in Saskatchewan and everyone is stopping to take a moment and examine the budget and the details that it contained. I’ve said before on the blog that financial policy isn’t one of my strong suits, so hopefully I’ve managed to examine this information correctly.
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Source: CBC News: Province Won’t Limit Classroom Sizes, Minister Says There certainly is no shortage of things to talk about; from SGI motorcycle rates, to unanimous approval to move forward with “Howard’s Law” on asbestos, it was hard to decide what should be the first thing to move on to.
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Coming Down the Pipeline
*This post has been amended from it’s original content, due to SK NDP Leader Cam Broten coming out in favour of Keystone; the ** denotes the area where the editing begins.Source: Star Phoenix: Broten Clarifies Stance on Pipeline Source: Huffington Post: Brad Wall Accuses Thomas Mulcair Of ‘Betraying’ Keystone, Oilsands
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Wrap Up: There’s Got To Be A Morning After
The post is a little later than expected, but I found myself wanting to take a little bit of extra time to digest the events of the weekend, and wrap up the blog’s campaign coverage in the best possible way. Firstly, as mentioned in the previous post, I once again
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Convention Update: And The Leader Is…
By a very tight margin, of 44 votes, the new leader of the Saskatchewan NDP is Saskatoon-Massey Place MLA. Cam Broten. Broten edged out first ballot leader, Ryan Meili, as mentioned by a mere 44 votes; which shows that the bulk of Trent’s supporters found their way into Cam’s camp.
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Convention Update: First Ballot Results
And now for something completely different, we go from talking about the campaign to talking about the convention. As of 1:30pm, the first ballot results are in and are posted as follows:Results: 8,719 ballots castCam Broten: 2942Ryan Meili: 3384Trent Wotherspoon: 2120 The 279 vote discrepancy is dependent on either Erin
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Editorial Content: The Recuse
In addition to an increased lack of time, I’ve found myself struggling a little to update the blog for a very important reason: I can no longer call myself undecided. Like many other NDP members, I received my voting information and have already cast my ballot online. As such, it
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Where With Weir?
Well, by now everyone should have heard that Erin Weir has withdrawn from the Sask. NDP Leadership race and thrown his behind Ryan Meili. As mentioned yesterday, it was one of the possibilities when it was announced that the two were making a joint announcement earlier today. As with others,
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: An Interesting Development
A media release went out today with regards to a joint announcement from Ryan Meili and Erin Weir coming tomorrow morning. Needless to say, this has started the speculation wheels spinning. So, there’s a number of ways to speculate about what is going to be announced tomorrow. The first, and
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Editorial Content: Compare and Contrast
While Ryan has released his healthcare policy, and we will talk about that in another post, one of the more interesting things to come out the campaign recently has been two sets of poll numbers. The first poll comes from the Star Phoenix, the full article can be found here:
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Ryan Meili
Ryan’s Website: http://www.ryanmei.li/democratic_renewal Best laid plans…No discussion of the debates for now, due to losing the bulk of my weekend. So, we will talk a bit about Ryan’s democratic renewal statement. In keeping with our newest way of covering these items, the link above will take you to the release
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Editorial Content: Some Loose Thoughts
As this race has gone on, I thought it would become more and more clear which candidate I would get behind. As of this posting, that still remains and elusive and difficult decision. There’s no doubt that we have a fine slate of candidates in Erin Weir, Ryan Meili, Cam
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Cam Broten
The major announcement, which could have some interesting implications on the rest of the leadership race, is the word that Massey Place (Cam’s constituency) now has the most NDP members of all the constituencies in the province. I don’t believe the exact numbers have come out, I believe it was
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Trent Wotherspoon
And on wards to Trent Wotherspoon. Trent continues to gather endorsements from both former candidates, caucus members, and party members. Among the ‘featured’ endorsements would be that from Glenn Hagel, LINK, though you can look at all of the endorsements that are flowing in by heading to the campaign website.
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Erin Weir
On the Erin Weir campaign front, the campaign picked up the endorsement from two former elected officials in Saskatchewan; MLA Evan Carlson and MP Ron Fisher. For a full list of elected officials who have endorsed Erin, current and former, you can check out Erin’s website here: LINK Erin’s also
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Ryan Meili
Due to some increased time constraints on my schedule, we’re going to modify the way the blog reports on some of the campaign announcements. Up until now I’ve put the details of the plans release on this page, while also providing a link to the announcements. We’re going to simplify,
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Notes on the Yorkton Debate
It would seem my own prophecy has come to fruition, as here we are about to talk about the Yorkton Debate before getting to some of the ones that have come before it. The candidates were their usual selves this evening, as they continued to hammer home the key messages
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: General Posting
A quick moment to take a look at what the candidates have been up to and any major events that have come out in the last couple of weeks. I’m working on a post for the latest debate, though at this rate, I may have one for the Yorkton debate
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