One of Ryan’s volunteers has worked on numerous campaigns at all levels of government over the past twenty-five years. And one day, she happily told a few of us that she’s never had so much fun working on a campaign in her life! I’ve only worked on a few but I had to agree – […]
I was recently reminded by a long-time NDP member that, in the interests of unity, it’s important not to ascribe negative motives to candidate’s actions, especially during a Leadership race. I don’t think I was particularly judging anyone negatively in the circumstance. But it was a timely reminder given that I was planning to write […]
Since the 2009 race, Ryan’s gone from being the youngest candidate to the oldest. There’s also been another less obvious but equally drastic shift in the dynamic this time around… In the last race, my memory is that three of all of the four candidates had strong rural connections – Ryan grew up on a farm, […]
This reason strikes particularly close to home for me. When I convocated from the U of R with a BA – English way back in 1996, I lived in great fear that I would only find work in the “French Fried Arts” as was the stereotype for Arts grads then (and probably now too…if there […]
I’m sure each of the candidates has a strong team of experienced hands guiding their team’s strategies and other activities. But, as with my post yesterday, I want to highlight a couple things that I think set Ryan’s team apart from the rest of the field. Of course all the teams have lots of people […]
In 2009, I did a series of posts listing 10 reasons I was supporting Ryan Meili for Sask NDP Leader. I thought it might be fun to re-visit the idea to see if I could list 10 completely different reasons I’m supporting him this time around. (Come to think of it, that in itself is […]
Erin Weir’s campaign sent out an e-mail blast today entitled “Why We’re With Weir” which lists excerpts from various supporters and endorsers. Pretty standard stuff that we’ve seen from all campaigns except that this e-mail included a quote from somebody who I’m pretty sure isn’t “With Weir”…ME! I’m in good company as they also included […]
My Facebook feed was filled with people talking about the weather, posting screen grabs of The Weather Network (did we really hit-50 with wind chill? Was Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan really the coldest place on the planet today? Was the average temperature in Saskatchewan closer to the surface temperature on Mars than in Toronto? Yes to […]
Back from a four-day weekend in Winnipeg where I was (mostly) unplugged – although I did send out one last membership pitch from the Tim Horton’s in Brandon on Friday afternoon which indicates that I’m either really dedicated or really deluded! I did see a few things as the membership deadline approached that made me […]
There’s less than a week left until the deadline for selling NDP memberships (how did that come up so fast?) I’ve spent the evening spamming reaching out to pretty much any potential NDP member in my Facebook friends list (so I expect to be de-friended by quite a few people by tomorrow!) 😉 This exercise does […]
