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
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Accidental 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
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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 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: Saskatchewan NDP Leadership 2013 – What’s In Store
While the Saskatchewan NDP’s 2013 leadership campaign officially started last week and at least a couple of the candidates have already made strong entrances, I haven’t yet had a chance to comment much on the contest. But rest assured that there’s plenty coming, especially with more candidate announcements coming over
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On alternate options
Following up on this week’s column, here’s a quick update on the planned voting processes in the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race. Contrary to what I’d theorized, there apparently won’t be a paper-based system at convention itself. However, the same-day voting may be carried out either online or by telephone –
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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: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan points to the Law Commission of Ontario’s proposals to make sure that labour laws don’t stack the deck against workers, and encourages citiznes to have their own say: The truth is, most people don’t know anything about their legal rights as
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On connections
Tuesday, July 31 was the deadline for submissions to the Wall government’s consultation process on employment and labour law. Like hundreds of other interested individuals and groups, I took the time to put together a submission – based on the underlying view that however biased the process was from the
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’
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Here, on why we shouldn’t limit the range of possible contenders in the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership race – and the number of supporters an outside candidate might need to reach in order to find a place on a final ballot. Demographics from the column are found here (as to Saskatchewan’s
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
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dan Gardner writes about the Cons’ backup plan of answering their own wrongdoing with criticism of anybody who dares to investigate it – and points out the dangers of that approach: (W)hat happens if Elections Canada delivers a report even a fraction as
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Random readings to occupy your time. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor are still digging into Robocon – with a focus on figuring out exactly how “Pierre Poutine” assembled lists of anti-Con voters to target. And Sixth Estate both points out that the count of affected ridings is up to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sixth Estate rounds up the party and organizational affiliations on Canada’s major opinion pages. And in case anybody was wondering why our political dialogue so often has nothing at all to do with the public’s real concerns about inequality and instability: I
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Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – On the Robocon front, Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher’s latest good work investigating the Cons’ electoral fraud got Maher expelled from the Manning Centre’s hive-mind-building exercise. And the robocalling firms themselves are being similarly aggressive in trying to shut down any discussion of
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Here, on the need for equitable resource sharing to start writing a new ending to Canada’s shameful story of First Nations relations – and how the Saskatchewan NDP nearly took itself out of the narrative. Scott Stelmaschuk has an opposing take on the proper response from the NDP. [Edit: fixed
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading. – pogge rightly questions the Cons’ continued efforts to have decisions made by ministerial fiat rather than through public debate. – Glen McGregor eviscerates Brian Lilley’s thoroughly inaccurate attack on Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand. – Murray Mandryk suggests that Saskatchewan’s New Democratic
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Evening Links
This and that for your evening reading.- Erin offers up his suggestions for the Saskatchewan NDP’s renewal process:The next NDP leader will presumably be met with a barrage of negative advertising from the Sask Party. New Democrats would do well to ele…
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