News and notes from Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership campaign… – I wasn’t sure whether Ryan Meili’s reddit appearance would result in much difference from other forms of candidate interaction. But the outcome looks to have been a noteworthy discussion – both in a range of creative questions (indeed more than Meili
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Accidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Swift Current Debate Notes
As Scott has already noted, Saskatchewan NDP’s Swift Current leadership debate included plenty of familar themes: And indeed, one of the more interesting issues facing both the candidates and the debate organizers is how to account for the difference between an audience which may be seeing the candidates for the
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: A Word on the Fourth (Swift Current) Debate
Debate Video: LINK As always, those interested in watching the debate in full can follow the link at the top of the page. With the fourth debate come and gone, and indeed the fifth debate as well (which will be talked about shortly), I think we can talk a bit
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Saskatoon Debate Notes
I’ll continue my look at the Saskatchewan NDP leadership debates with a review of the first Saskatoon forum: And I see a few interesting developments beyond those mentioned in Scott’s detailed series of posts.To start with, as I pointed out when the fe…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Roundup
Once again, Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership campaign has focused largely on recent debates and other candidate forums (and I’ll be discussing those individually as I get a chance to view them). And for those interested in immediate coverage of those, Tra…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Humboldt Debate Notes
Scott has already pointed out that the Saskatchewan NDP is making its leadership debate videos available online, and commented somewhat on the second debate in Humboldt. But having had a chance to view it for the first time today, I’ll add a few observ…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Endorsement Notes
As I’ve noted before, I tend to see leadership endorsements as involving diminishing returns: once a candidate has enough support to be seen as a viable contender, additional names on a list of endorsers are unlikely to have any substantial impact unle…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: A Word on the Second (Humboldt) Debate
For all those interested, the video for the Humboldt Debate can be found here: LINKPlease note, the Humboldt video seems to have some audio problems near the front end of the video; as such, all of Erin’s opening statement (and some of Trent’s) cannot …
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Third Debate: Erin Weir
As per the last round of individual reviews, I’m including this disclaimer. I’m worried some of this might sounder harsher than I mean it to. I want to assure you all that I am by no means belittling or attacking any of the candidates; rather, I’m o…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Third Debate
In addition to the brunch of that was held at the Avenue Community Centre on Saturday, we also saw the third NDP leadership debate here in Saskatoon.As is the third debate, there is some marked differences between the what we’ve seen in the first debat…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Leadership Update: Candidate’s Brunch
In addition to the leadership debate that was held here in Saskatoon (which we will be talking about in a bit), the NDP Leadership candidates took some time to attend a brunch held at the Avenue Community Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity. For t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Roundup
The Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign hasn’t seen a lot of official news over the past week, as the candidates look to have directed most of their efforts toward the continued series of debates. (Among the more thorough coverage of the recent ones…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: First Debate: Erin Weir
Standard Disclaimer: Also, I’m worried some of this might sounder harsher than I mean it to. I want to assure you all that I am by no means belittling or attacking any of the candidates; rather, I’m offering my perceived take and ways to address wha…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Debate 1 Notes
There’s already been some coverage of the first Saskatchewan NDP leadership debate which took place Saturday night (link to come once the video is available). But I’ll take a few minutes to add my observations – which will mostly stick to the differenc…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: First Debate
Video Feed: LINKProvided at the top of the post is the video link for those interested in viewing the debate, or watching it again, and it is what I used to form my opinions for this post. I’ll just know, however, that there seems to be some cut footag…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Debate Preview
I’ll put together another #skndpldr roundup later today. But for now, I’ll point out that the campaign’s debate schedule starts tomorrow night in Regina (live-streamed here) – and discuss briefly what I see each candidate needing to do as the debates u…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Another Month, More Numbers
Well, the financial reports for the month of October have come out and we’re going to take a look at them. Stupidly, I didn’t save the old PDF donor lists, so I don’t think I can go through and subtract connected campaign workers and such as we did las…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Editorial Content: Hey Buddy, Spare Some Change?
One of the big issues coming out of the Saskatchewan NDP Leadership Race thus far is the idea of change; or at the very least, the idea of renewal. I was spurred onto this post after reading Jason’s post over at Head Tale (LINK) regarding which candida…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Roundup
With a couple of weeks’ worth of developments to address, I’ll take a slightly higher-level look at the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race than I normally do. (And for those worried about missing out, note that we should have an opportunity to revisit ne…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Weekend Campaign Update
As I fear I will lack the motivation to do a post tomorrow, I think we’ll just get it out of the way and over with now.We’ll start with Trent Wotherspoon, who as noted earlier today, released his environmental platform plank.Cam Broten was in Prince Al…
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