Saskatchewan’s election day is rapidly approaching (and indeed voting is already underway). And with plenty of content being generated, I’ll plan to offer some link posts dedicated to news of interest to voters. – PressProgress has been providing plenty of important election news – even if it has regularly been
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The latest from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign in advance of next weekend’s convention. – Murray Mandryk’s questions for the candidates led to substantial agreement on most of the areas covered. But one offers a potentially striking difference in their respective economic plans – with Trent Wotherspoon’s tendency toward stark
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The latest from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign as the Saskatchewan Party’s election of Scott Moe brings the province’s political playing field into greater focus (while also offering a reminder of the fallibility of leadership campaign polling). – Trent Wotherspoon has unveiled his post-secondary education education policy (accompanied by endorsements
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The latest from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign as the January 19 membership deadline approaches. – CBC and Colton Praill each reported on this weekend’s debate in Moose Jaw, with both reports focusing on a combination of general similarities with slight nuances. – Devin Wilger reported on Trent Wotherspoon’s visit
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The latest from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign. – Greg Nikkel reported on the Weyburn debate, but didn’t note much by way of contrast in so doing. – And local media also covered Ryan Meili’s visits to Prince Albert and North Battleford, and Trent Wotherspoon’s to Weyburn and the Battlefords.
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Here, summarizing a few of my earlier blog posts on the state of the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign – and the choice between two positive and appealing leaders that played out in the first debate. For further reading…– Jason Hammond offered his take on the debate and the provincial convention.
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Krugman notes that after promising to bring some outside perspective to politics, Donald Trump is instead offering only a warmed-over version of the Republicans’ typical voodoo economics. And John Cassidy highlights how Trump’s plan appears to be nothing more than to wage
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A few links and notes as Regina’s wastewater referendum approaches tomorrow. – Jason Hammond explains that his Yes vote will be based largely on concerns about the City’s dishonesty and sense of entitlement in trying to push through a P3 model. And Paul Dechene provides the full list of City
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lana Payne offers an introduction to austerity for Newfoundland and Labrador residents who are just learning about it on a provincial level: In Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has also taken a rather deep liking to austerity. It is a ready-made excuse to
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brendan Haley explains why the Cons’ let-them-build-pipelines economic approach is doomed to fail from the standpoint of prosperity as well as that of sustainability: There is a certain spirit of defensiveness and vulnerability behind the Conservatives’ economic choices. Ideologically incapable of admitting that the
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