Civically Speaking CFCR 90.5

Tonight Winter Fedyk and panel members Janice Braden, Wendy Cooper and possibly Pat Lorje (as able) join in to talk municipal and provincial results with a gender equity inclusivity lens on. Have a listen #yxecc #yqrcc #skpoli #yxevotes #yqrvotes #saskvotes2020

Join us to watch #yxe civic election live results via Voice of Saskatoon and Civically Speaking starting at 7:30 p.m. today. Scott Bastion, Chief Returning Officer, joins us off the hop to run through how things went today and to run through process once the polls close at 8 pm. Join us. Lots of special guests and candidates will be popping in throughout the evening. Facebook live page link: https://t.co/8hlCmJhylO

Scott Bastion will be joining us right off the top to bring us an update on how the voting is going and what the process will be once the polls close. Many guest panelists including candidates - mayoral and council. We will scrolling and providing commentary with a local group of special panel members. Tune in with us. Join the conversation through facebook and twitter. Can't wait.

Hello Civically Speaking Friends, On Tuesday evening, Wendy Cooper and James Yachyshen, had a lively 60 minute discussion with me unpacking the civic election that was suspended on Monday evening in Saskatoon due to a snow fall that happened on the weekend that left many streets impassible. The Province provided early in the morning for municipalities, through the Elections Act, to allow local Chief Returning Officers to make the call if alterations regarding voting had to... be made due to the snow fall preventing people from getting to the polls. Saskatoon announced in the morning it would make a decision in the early afternoon. At just before 5 pm they called a suspension of the election by 6:30 pm that evening for it to resume on Friday from between the hours of 9am to 8 pm. Through the following day, it was then announced, polling stations would be reduced from 65 polls to 5 polls spread out in the city - with one venue on the east side. Not known at the time of the airing of this episode was that an additional 6th poll was added to the east side at Prairie Land Park for the election that will be taking place on Friday, November 13, 2020. Yup - only in 2020 can we have stories like this. We also, in this episode, take some time to unpack the results of some of the other municipal elections that took place around the province, including Regina's first elected female mayor in Regina. This includes sharing about the upset of an incumbent mayor in North Battleford, a new Mayor elected in Yorkton with some notoriety as a photographer, and, a close race that had the incumbent come through in Prince Albert. Tune in and stay tuned to community radio where we go places that other media are not able to. Thanks Wendy and James for being part of the Post Results show that did not happen. Civically speaking, Lenore

Tune in now till 730 pm. As Part 10 of the Carnival...we are now discussing the results that did not happen and will happen on November 13th. Yup, Friday the 13th of November when the polls reopen again from 9 am to 8 pm.