Ryan Meili announced this morning that he’ll be running in Saskatoon-Sutherland in the next provincial election. Jurist has details including a bit about the fact that this field will be a big one, just like Regina-Coronation Park, with four people seeking the nomination. I thought this might be a prime opportunity to do a post […]
I'm with Louis Riel Trail – I support universal post-secondary education, not just for selected folks whose parents happened to take a very high risk job. And I've already made my feelings on the over-use of the word “hero” known on this blog. In my view, the true hero (of Tommy Douglas proportions) will be […]
[Edit: Jurist has replied to my comment on his site (which I've also posted below) to clarify that when he said Tamara had “the strongest web presence” of the Coronation Park candidates, he was referring to her “web site” presence, not her “online” presence. I guess it's semantics – when someone says “web“, I think […]
A few quick hits on my most popular topics… HockeyI really hate the Canucks and think it would be a travesty if one of the Sedin sisters won the Hart Trophy. I mean, a guy with a career average of 65 points a season gets a bunch of assists and is now one of the […]
One of the big hub-bubs of the last week or so was around the fact that American right-wing commentator, Ann Coulter, had one of her speeches in Canada shut down by protesters. The one that was shut down was at the University of Ottawa while others at locations including my alma mater, the University of […]
I usually have an April Fool's joke lined up for my April 1 blog post but this year it just totally escaped me. So instead, here's a link to a MetaFilter post on the topic o' the day. Weird to note that I often end up doing two blog posts on April 1 for some […]
I wrote a lot about what the number of Facebook friends may or may not mean in a political race during the NDP leadership campaign last year. I'm not sure what if anything these same numbers might mean for a more local race like the one that's currently happening in Regina – Coronation Park. But […]
My candidate for the NDP Coronation Park nomination, Jaime Garcia is having a steak supper fundraiser this Saturday night. If you're in Regina, why not come out and support a future leader of the province?
Stolen from my Facebook status update last night: “Congrats on joining the rest of the developed world, USA! Now you just need to get rid of the death penalty and implement the metric system!”The American Dream is a big deal south of the 49th but I think they've got a good start on the Canadian […]
As I mentioned recently on this blog, there is currently a nomination race happening to determine the NDP candidate in the provincial riding of Regina – Coronation Park, a riding which happens to be my home constituency. There are four announced candidates: Jaime Garcia – a labour activist who grew up in Coronation Park, […]
