Tag: Greg Poelzer

Sleep has been hard to come by for Ryan Meili so far this year. READ MORE: Sask. WATCH: Ryan Meili wins Saskatchewan NDP leadership vote The NDP and its predecessor the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation have a proud history in the province. In 2012, he released a book called “A Healthy Society,” which argues that a focus on health can revive Canadian democracy. His wife is also a doctor, a pediatrician, who focuses on refugee health. Meili has known Calvert for more than a decade and calls him a friend. “They’ve been really important voices for me, both of them.” READ MORE: Ryan Meili wins Saskatoon-Meewasin byelection It took Meili three cracks to win the leadership. His leadership campaign this time around included proposals for a $15 minimum wage, universal pharmacare and removing corporate and union donations from politics. He suggests that may help the NDP in urban areas, but not necessarily rural constituencies where the governing Saskatchewan Party just won three byelections. Party,” Poelzer said.

Coming home to Abe and Gus sort of puts everything in perspective and I enjoy that.” Meili, 42, defeated Trent Wotherspoon earlier this month to win the leadership of Saskatchewan’s official Opposition. A family doctor by trade, he has practised across the province and did his residency in Saskatoon, where he’s spent the last several years. His wife is also a doctor, a pediatrician, who focuses on refugee health. Meili has known Calvert for more than a decade and calls him a friend. “I’ve had a chance to know him and Roy Romanow quite well, and often will call them up and just go and listen to their stories and hear what their experiences were and their thoughts on what happened during their time in leadership,” Meili says. He won the Saskatoon Meewasin seat in the legislature in a byelection last spring. His leadership campaign this time around included proposals for a $15 minimum wage, universal pharmacare and removing corporate and union donations from politics. Greg Poelzer, a political science professor at the University of Saskatchewan, says Meili’s election is a shift to the left for the party. He suggests that may help the NDP in urban areas, but not necessarily rural constituencies where the governing Saskatchewan Party just won three byelections. ‘That Scott Moe won.