A few notes from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign over the past few days… – Cam Broten’s supporters have been highlighting his statement of values, with his focus on long-term thinking offering a particularly noteworthy development if put into practice (while also setting up a noteworthy test for Broten on
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Accidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Candidate Profile: Trent Wotherspoon
By most accounts, Trent Wotherspoon’s campaign launch vaulted him immediately to frontrunner status. But let’s take a closer look at whether he’s likely to maintain that lead throughout the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race. Strengths Wotherspoon starts out with two significant advantages over his competitors. First, he’s a natural retail politician:
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Candidate Profile: Ryan Meili
Ryan Meili started the 2009 Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign at a distinct disadvantage against his opponents in terms of both time and name recognition. But he nonetheless came within just over five hundred votes of emerging as the party’s leader. For the 2013 campaign, Meili starts out as much more
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: A Quick Break from the Provincial Race to Bring You…
A few quick words on the provincial NDP race, and then we’ll broach some Federal news that I have let languish in limbo for far too long. Firstly, I should make note that Ryan Meili had a book reading at McNally Robinson on Saturday evening; I was unable to attend
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Candidate Profile: Erin Weir
Erin Weir has wasted no time in carving out a place within the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign – with a pre-campaign “draft” movement presaging a quick launch once the campaign officially started. But what can we expect from him as the leadership race progresses? Strengths First and foremost, Weir brings
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Candidate Profile – Cam Broten
As promised, let’s start taking a closer look at the four candidates in Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership race – starting with Cam Broten as the first to formally announce his candidacy. Strengths To the extent NDP members plan to vote based a checklist of experience and personal traits, Broten is positioned
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 – The Basics
Before I start taking an individual look at the candidates in Saskatchewan’s 2013 NDP leadership campaign, I’ll point out a few areas of discussion from past leadership races which don’t look to be matters of great distinction between the candidates this time out. Endorsements As I’ve noted before, I tend
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Slogans, Logos, and Thoughts: 1. Cam Broten
Despite what the title of the post might say, this is not going to be a close examination of the nuances of the campaigns; rather, as promised, this is going to be a very base look at the banalities of the campaigns. By banalities, I refer to slogans, logos, and
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Friday Night Campaign Updates
Since we talked a bit about Trent Wotherspoon’s campaign stop in Prince Albert, we should take a moment to talk about what the other campaigns are up to. Cam Broten scored an endorsement from former NDP MLA Len Taylor, and spent sometime in and around The Battlefords. Ryan Meili’s campaign
Continue readingAccidental 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
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Dissemination 2: Cam Broten
* I’m going to point out that this post is a little longer than the last one on Erin Weir; I want to assure readers that this is due to their being more information to look at on Cam’s site at the present moment rather than some perceived bias. Source:
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Reference Page
A one-stop source for general links on the 2013 Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign, to be updated as the race progresses. Please feel free to add additional suggestions in comments. General Information and DiscussionSaskatchewan NDP – MembershipLeadership 2013 – Events – RulesBabble Discussion Saskatchewan New Democrat Leadership Campaign (Leftdog)Candidate Profiles (Head
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership rules (PDF) are nicely set up to encourage a broad outreach effort by candidates. For further reading…– The NDP’s leadership page is here. – Buckdog is running a dedicated blog for leadership news. – And Cam Broten is the first candidate to formally
Continue readingAccidental 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’
Continue readingAccidental 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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