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Elmwood: 540 days

By: Mary Agnes Welch

Posted: 08/29/2008 11:48 AM | Comments: 0

Sounds like the NDP is holding the nomination meeting in Elmwood-Transcona a week Sunday, which could also be two days after the federal election is called. Lots of time. No sweat!Also, to the Hacks' point: It was an NDPer who said, quite reasonably, that Elmwood-Transcona is among the safest NDP seats in the country. Blaikie has held it since it included Birds Hill in 1979. That's almost longer than I have been alive. But, I note he won the riding with about 50% of the vote in 2006. Judy W-L won hers with 57%, so maybe that makes Winnipeg North the safest Manitoba NDP seat even though big chunks of it were Liberal a few years ago.My point was that, without a good NDP campaign fronted by a decent candidate who gets out early, that seat could switch if the Tories have a great candidate and some electoral momentum. They pushed hard in the provincial election there last year. And the riding has changed a lot in recent years, and you could argue it was held by Blaikie's personal popularity, not an unwavering loyalty to the NDP. Just sayin', don't write it off. See post below.

Mary Agnes Welch, Winnipeg Free Press

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About Mary Agnes Welch

Mary Agnes Welch joined the Free Press in 2002, first as a general assignment reporter and then covering city hall and the Manitoba legislature before moving to her current post as public policy reporter.

Before Winnipeg, she worked at the Windsor Star and the Odessa American, a small daily newspaper in West Texas. There, in addition to covering more than 20 counties, she took high school football scores from coaches all over West Texas by phone every Friday night.

Mary Agnes is a graduate of Columbia University’s journalism school, has won several Western Ontario Newspaper Awards and has been part of two teams of reporters nominated for a Michener Award. In 2011, she was nominated for a National Newspaper Award in the beat category. She is also the former national president of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

She once misspelled "Shih Tzu" in the paper and received 37 emails from angry dog-owners.

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