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…
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Canadian Political Viewpoints: First Debate: Trent Wotherspoon
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: #skndpldr Roundup
A few observations about the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race in advance of tonight’s first debate… The main news over the past week has involved the release of the candidates’ October donation and expense numbers – which have been documented by Alic…
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…
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Trent’s Website: LINKAnother release from Trent’s campaign this week, as they revealed the policy platform revolving around Democracy in Saskatchewan. So, let’s have a look at it.The first plank revolves around increasing transparency and account…
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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Trent’s Website: LINK Well, better late than never I suppose; I’ve found myself a bit short of time recently, so writing this post has taken me a bit longer than usual. My apologies.On the campaign front, Trent Wotherspoon has released his environmenta…
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Trent’s Website: LINKAnother policy release from Trent’s campaign today, this time looking at medicare. So, let’s have a look at what Trent is proposing.The first plank revolves around community wellness securing medicare for the future. Trent’s plan c…
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As mentioned in the week review, Trent Wotherspoon stopped over in Saskatoon on Saturday night for a meet-and-greet event held in the home of a local supporter. The event was a good chance to socialize with various people, from academics to several youths in attendance, and it certainly provided a
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Campaign Round-Up: Weekend Edition
So, let’s look at what some of the campaigns got up to this weekend. Please note, this is just standard recapping. If you’re looking for something in-depth, say regarding Erin’s questioning of job numbers in Saskatchewan, use the label system to find the previous post regarding that. We’ll start with
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Editorial Content: Please, Have a Seat.
*Editorial Note: During this post, I will make some arguments that do not reflect my own personal view. In my attempt to explain my line of thought, I approached the issue as I would if I were a SK Party strategist. As such, I have crafted some arguments I could
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Trent’s Website: LINK Moving right along, today also saw the release of another policy plank from Trent Wotherspoon. Referred to as “Putting People First in a Prosperous Saskatchewan”, the plan is summarized as a blueprint to capture Saskatchewan’s economic prosperity for all. Included at the top of the post is
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: "The Fiendish Four" and Campaign Updates
I’m going to use the term Fiendish Four to describe the most recent event from the Sask. NDP Leadership Race, if only because it’s a nifty term with a Stan Lee vibe, and it also calls attention to the ridiculousness of putting out ads to attack four candidates. Much like
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Roundup
Yesterday saw two significant new developments in Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership race, as the two candidates outside the Legislature took the initiative to earn coverage as the fall legislative session opened. – Let’s start with Ryan Meili’s economic plan, which featured a few important concrete policies (such as a minimum wage
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Here a Poll, There a Poll
A recent, non-scientific poll came out today via the Erin Weir campaign. The telephone poll was conducted in the middle of October (and I’m pretty sure I actually got one of the calls, so full-disclosure on that one), and has some pretty interesting results. So, let’s take a look at
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