[Edit: It's funny that I tell the story of calling someone else an idiot down below and here I was, originally titling this post “#9” when it was actually “#8”. The big difference is I can laugh at my stupidity and admit when I'm wrong.] When I watched the US election last year, some of […]
I’m taking a one day break from the “Top 10 Reasons I’m Supporting Ryan Meili” series of posts to promote a really cool idea. Last night, Ryan Meili’s campaign announced that it was launching a “Money Bomb“. If you’re not familiar with the concept, the term money bomb originated in the last US election as […]
One of Dwain Lingenfelter's greatest assets is also one of his greatest weaknesses. He's been a part of Saskatchewan's political scene from 1978 until 2000 when he moved to Calgary to become an executive with Nexen Oil. That's given him a great deal of experience in both politics and business during the past 30 years. […]
Back when I first started blogging regularly about the NDP leadership campaign, I had a loyal reader named Kent (who I'm 98.3% sure is Kent Lindgren who recently endorsed Dwain Lingenfelter.) At the time, Kent took issue with oh, pretty much every single thing I said (a tactic I'm increasingly seeing from Lingenfelter supporters not […]
When I first met Ryan, I made a special effort to take note of how his last name was pronounced (“Meili” rhymes with “smiley” – easy!) and I thought it was a silly thing but that his surname might be a slight barrier in his campaign. As a relative unknown (at least when the campaign […]
Here's a two-part video I stumbled across on YouTube about the “Making the Links” program for U of S medical students which takes them to First Nations communities in northern Saskatchewan, rural villages in Mozambique and to the SWITCH (Student Wellness Initiative Toward Community Health) clinic that Ryan Meili co-founded in Saskatoon's inner-city. The “Making […]
Here are some random things I'm seeing around the web as the Hale Report seems to have only poured fuel on the fire rather than clearing things up. The amount of attention being paid to the NDP leadership race seems to have grown greatly but unfortunately, not just because people are paying more attention now […]
Hello Premier Calvert,I know that you don't know me – I mean, we're Facebook friends but I see that you don't log in that often – so we don't really get a chance to chat. So I thought a letter on my blog might be the best way to reach you.First off, congrats on your […]
I slipped over to the University today to sit in on the press conference for Ryan Meili's official launch of his campaign videos. The release of these videos was tied into the larger theme of the changing role of technology and especially its abiility to level the playing field in modern politics. (See his press […]
I don't know how many of these videos Ryan has up his sleeve but the first on Aboriginal Issues and now this one on Agriculture make me excited to see the rest – they're very professionally done and give a great insight into his way of thinking. The strategy of creating these videos reminds me […]
