Accidental Deliberations: New column day

Here, taking a quick look at the early-campaign strategies of Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership candidates. For more analysis on the race…– Pat Atkinson offers her take on what the NDP needs to do while building through the leadership campaign and beyond.– Murray Mandryk focuses largely on Trent Wotherspoon’s crowd as defining

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Accidental Deliberations: Insider tradeoffs

Postmedia and CTV have both reported on how this weekend’s #skndp12 convention may shape the Saskatchewan NDP’s 2013 leadership race. But it’s worth noting how the major split among prospective candidates may affect the party in the months to come. Here’s CTV’s juxtaposition of a couple of the putative candidates’

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Accidental Deliberations: Draft Erin Weir

No, Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership campaign isn’t officially underway. But Jim Stanford and a lengthy list of distinguished Canadian economists have a suggestion as to who might deserve a look once the race begins: We, the undersigned economists, write to encourage you to nominate Erin Weir for your provincial leadership. He

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