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We’re just over a week away from electing the next leader of the Saskatchewan NDP.

It’s an exciting time – and the excitement just keeps building.

When we launched the Ryan Meili Money Bomb last weekend, we asked you to donate $34 (or $340, or $3400) to support Ryan Meili’s leadership campaign.

News Release
 
May 22, 2009
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NDP Leadership candidate Ryan Meili has released additional information about donations to his campaign. This information is in addition to the list of donors over $250 released by the party’s Leadership Contest Committee earlier this week.

“This is part of my commitment to complete transparency,” said Meili. “I am very grateful for the tremendous support from people across Saskatchewan.”

News Release
 
May 21, 2009
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“Saskatchewan’s future can’t just be a tale of two cities,” according to NDP leadership candidate Ryan Meili. “It needs to be a story about thriving communities throughout the province.”

Meili was joined by former National Farmers Union President and former leadership candidate Nettie Wiebe as he released his policy on agriculture and rural life.

“Ryan’s plan for agriculture is good for farmers, good for the land, good for the environment and good for Saskatchewan,” said Wiebe. “It takes vision, courage and smarts to bring about positive change. Ryan Meili shows that kind of leadership.”

By Darla Read
Eagle Feather News
May 2009

New Democratic Party leadership candidate Ryan Meili says working with First Nations and Metis people is a priority for him.

His campaign has released its first of five videos with this one focusing on Aboriginal issues.

“It’s an extremely important issue for me having worked in northern Saskatchewan and worked in the inner city, and just recognizing how important it is as a province we have a good relationship with the First Nations and Métis people and correct some of the very bad things that have gone on in the past,” he says.

NEWS RELEASE
May 12, 2009
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NDP leadership candidate Ryan Meili wants to reach a new generation of political activists. To do so, he’s using the power of online social networks to change the way politics is practiced in Saskatchewan.

By Murray Mandryk
The Leader Post

Generational shifts in politics are usually marked by the arrival of a new government or a new, young party leader. It's less easy to trace them back to a single week or single event.

But the events this very week surrounding the membership mess in the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race, created by Dwain Lingenfelter's camp, might indicate a generational change that we haven't witnessed in many a decade.

To better understand this, one must first understand the disproportionate deference awarded to an entire generation of baby-boomer politicians in Saskatchewan politics.

May 8, 2009
Kathy Gallant
Meadow Lake Progress

A total of four candidates are running for the leadership of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party, and Ryan Meili is one of them. He was in the region on Thursday, April 30 travelling with former Meadow Lake MLA Maynard Sonntag.

NEWS RELEASE

May 4, 2009
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NDP leadership candidate Ryan Meili has issued the following statement regarding unresolved issues about NDP memberships in the constituency of Meadow Lake.

By Denise Mozel
The Wynyard Advance
March 30, 2009

It is not every day that an NDP leadership candidate practises medicine in Wynyard.

That’s what happened last week.

For five days Dr. Ryan Meili worked as a rural relief locum at the Wynyard Community Health Centre.

Helen Solmes
Esterhazy Miner-Journal
(Editorial)

This week’s interview with NDP leadership candidate Dr. Ryan Meili was refreshing and very opportune. I have been struggling to make sense of all of the discussion of late about nuclear power and the possibilities of a nuclear power-generating plant in Saskatchewan.