We’re now approaching the home stretch of Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership race – with the membership deadline looming in just over two weeks, and under two months left until the vote itself. But while there will be plenty of news to cover in that time, let’s take a look back at
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Accidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Roundup
With the holiday break coming to an end, let’s take a quick look at what’s new in the Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign before taking stock as to where the candidates stand. While the official debates resume this weekend, the most important date to watch for is the January 25 membership
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Editorial Content: Endorsing Endorsements
Alright, let’s see if I can’t get this damnable post finally done in a manner I find acceptable for posting. This is an issue I’ve struggled with for awhile, if only because I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to say about endorsements. We’re all familiar with them, a person
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: General Overview
Well, now that we’ve entered 2013 to the best of our abilities, I think it’s high time we got the blog rolling again. As promised, we will take a closer look at the most recent policy proposals brought forward by Ryan Meili, but for now we will take a greater
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Financial Reports: LINK Alright, a few things to talk about; this will likely be the last post before the New Year, barring any major announcements or things to come out…Or if I finally decide what to say on endorsements and produce an editorial content post regarding that. Either way, we’ll
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With official forums on hold until January but the holiday lull not quite yet here, Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership candidates have been fairly active over the last little while. So let’s take a look at the latest developments. – The latest fund-raising numbers are available here, and charted by Alice below:
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Some Notes on the Melfort Debate
Better late than never, I suppose; but with the holidays, I do tend to find a bit less time for blogging due to being back home with family. That being said, we’ll take a look at the Melfort debate and we will have a few things to add later on
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Melfort Debate Notes
The final official Saskatchewan NDP leadership debate before the holidays took place in Melfort, and featured a couple of twists on the themes that have dominated the previous forums: So what was new in the fifth leadership forum? Well, Cam Broten mostly stuck to his usual script and in-debate pattern.
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Update: Latest News
A quick overview with regards to the last few major news headlines to come from the leadership campaign; while I’d usually do this in individual posts, I think there’s not quite enough to justify four individual posts so we’ll just do one major post covering all of the campaigns. We’ll
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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
Continue readingAccidental 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…
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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: Trent Wotherspoon
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…
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