With Thanksgiving out of the way and everyone back in the swing of things, let’s take a look at some of the things that have developed since we last posted. Broten Campaign Cam has been scoring up endorsements from former MLAs, including the most recent one from Eric Cline (Cam’s
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Canadian Political Viewpoints: Leadership Questionnaire: Erin Weir
As previously mentioned on the blog, I’ve submitted a questionnaire to all of the leadership campaigns in hopes of helping readers get to know the candidates a little better. Well, the first questionnaire has been returned and is ready to be printed here on the blog. I’ll post the others
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Assorted news from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign over the past few days… – Ryan Meili explained his choice not to start unveiling policy just yet by suggesting that leadership starts with listening – and the list of user-submitted ideas on his website looks to be expanding nicely to signal
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: The First Shot Across the Bow
Yesterday, the Weir Campaign introduced their plan to reform the Saskatchewan Small Business Tax loophole that currently allows larger companies to take advantage of a lower tax rate in Saskatchewan. And it seems that the first shot of the campaign between two candidates has emerged from this issue. Another release
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Loopholes and leverage
I’ve previously wondered whether we’d see many substantial policy differences between Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership candidates. But Erin Weir hasn’t taken long to challenge what’s often seen as party orthodoxy: NDP leadership candidate Erin Weir is proposing to focus Saskatchewan’s Small Business Deduction on genuinely small businesses with taxable profits of
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Erin Weir Campaign Note The Weir campaign has put forward a new policy development earlier today, so let’s go ahead and talk a bit about it. The proposal is to close a loophole in the Saskatchewan small business tax legislation, that the Weir campaign says would result in at least
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Roundup
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
Continue readingAccidental 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 readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Erin Weir Digital Town Hall
Well, that was certainly interesting. One advantage to the digital format means I don’t have to rush to keep notes, simply copy and paste, which is nice from a reporting standpoint. I am going to have my own thoughts on the process and what worked and what didn’t in another
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: 2. Erin Weir
Erin Weir Slogan: Principled, Pragmatic, Progressive Initial Thoughts: As I mentioned in Cam’s post, the leadership race is a little bogged down with similar campaign slogans. Cam and Erin both use the three word punch to get their slogan across, and both use the word principled. The two slogans differ
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: A Look at Unemployment
Source: Star Phoenix, Labour Market Getting Tighter First post for today, though there is another one coming shortly that will be a critique post rather than an information post; but let’s get facts and news sorted first, shall we? Most of the campaigns seem to have developed their approaches to
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Disemination 1: Erin Weir
Alright, a flurry of posts are about to go up here on the blog. With reporting on Erin Weir’s campaign proposal to eliminate corporate and union donations to political parties within Saskatchewan, it seems only right that we should take a look at the proposals that have come out thus
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
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