Category Archives: Saskatchewan

Some Thoughts On The Role of Social Media in the Sask NDP Leadership Race, Written on the Occasion of Twitter’s 7th Anniversary in 144 Chars

(Well, the title of this post is 144 characters anyhow.  The body of this thing will be *much* longer!) Twitter is celebrating the seventh anniversary of the first tweet ever which means today is as good of time as any to look back at what role social media played in the recent Sask NDP Leadership […]

Politics & Servant Leadership – A Perfect Match?

Ryan Meili has posted his concession speech from the day after the Leadership Convention and it didn’t make my Top 10 list of reasons I was supporting Ryan Meili but the fact that I’ve always found Ryan to be beyond classy, in good times and bad, was another reason I supported his candidacy.  Truly a […]

Saturday Snap – Finally a Photo To Replace the Shot of Shea and I With Joe Clark in Calgary

I’d rather have a shot of a future Prime Minister than a past Prime Minister anyhow. 😉  

10 Things I’m Looking Forward To Now That #skndpldr Is Over

Spending time with my family – I think Pace was starting to suspect daddy had gotten married to his computer since I was spending more time with it than him and mommy the past few months! 😉 Finishing getting ready for the addition to our family – apparently we’re having a baby in two months […]

@ryanmeili Music Monday – “We had a lot of fun/We had a lot of money”

As I continue the transition from a blog that was “all politics, all the time” for much of the last six months to one that’s back to being a bit more balanced between the posts about libraries, technology, family and yes, still the occasional political post, I thought I’d start by resurrecting one of my […]

Some Final Thoughts on #skndpldr

Well, by now, you’ve probably heard that Cam Broten beat Ryan Meili on the second ballot at the Saskatchewan NDP Leadership convention this weekend to become the party’s new leader. It was incredibly close – Broten won by 44 votes out of 8284 cast – meaning the margin of victory was 50.3% to 49.7%. (I […]

#itshere #excited #cantsleep #goodluckall #skndpldr

Friday Fun Link – Beards Keep You Young, Healthy & Handsome Says Science #skndpldr

As we head into the first day of the Sask NDP Leadership Convention, I thought I’d post a fun article (h/t to GG) on behalf of the members of Team Meili, most of whom who are of the Y chromosome persuasion, will be sporting beards of varying degrees of length and lushness this weekend. Very […]

Dr. @ryanMeili is Putting the “Hospital” in “Hospitality” at the #skndpldr Convention ;-)

For some reason, the campaign didn’t want to use that “putting the hospital in “hospitality” line” for their invitations and instead went with something classy and dignified as befitting the next leader of the Saskatchewan NDP.  Can you imagine? Anyhow, if you’re in Saskatoon for convention, why not stop by Ryan’s hospitality suite (and those […]

#RIPStompinTom – Thanks For Being The Soundtrack To My First-Ever YouTube Video

Stompin’ Tom Connors died today. Shea and I had the privilege of seeing him at the Calgary Folk Fest and is usually the case for old vets like him (see Dolly Parton at Craven or any number of “vets” who’ve come to Regina Folk Fest), he came out and stole the show. How fitting that […]