Head Tale

There's a provincial election coming up in Saskatchewan in about ten days (November 7) so Shea and I took the opportunity to go to the candidate's debate at her old high school tonight – even though we're planning to vote in our home riding in Regina. 

I'm too tired to analyze what we heard too much but I will say one thing about each candidate that was there tonight.

The sitting MLA for this constituency is a 26 year old Sask Party member named Dustin Duncan who Shea went to high school with.

As for the Liberals, I was assigned a mini-project at work to look into each of the three major party's positions in regards to public libraries and the only mention any of them has happened to be the local Liberal candidate who is her local library's board chair and serves on the Executive for her region.   (This is a topic that also deserves more analysis at a future date – I also did some advocacy work on behalf of the Saskatchewan Library Trustees' Association this election and have a few thoughts on that.)

Finally, there were a few “oops!” moments from each candidate but (unfortunately for her), the biggest one to me was when the NDP candidate mentioned that we needed more young people to get involved in all levels of politics.  I wonder if she even realised that she'd just indirectly given an endorsement to Shea's old high school classmate?

A blogger and former journalist named John Murney is doing a riding-by-riding rundown and the one for this area is worth reading, if only because this was Tommy Douglas' riding when he had his great successes in our province:

John Murney's Blog: Constituency Profile: Weyburn-Big Muddy