Sixty Saskatchewan Party signs in the Prince Albert Carlton riding went missing last week, according to party supporters.
"The signs of the other parties are still standing," said Rick Orr, communication chairman for Saskatchewan Party Carlton candidate Darryl Hickie.
About 40 signs disappeared late Wednesday night and 20 more on Thursday night but Orr and Hickie don't believe this is typical sign theft.
Hickie said the person or people who took them must have had a vehicle because the signs were missing from a large area in the Carlton voting district of Prince Albert.
None of the signs of the other two opposing party signs appeared to be missing.
Northcote NDP candidate Darcy Furber said sign theft and vandalism has been a part of every campaign that he has been involved in.
He said some signs have probably gone missing in this campaign for both Carlton and Northcote but he couldn't say exactly how many.
Furber added that most of the time people vandalize the signs or ride a bike through them.
Carlton NDP candidate Chad Nilson couldn't be reached for comment on the weekend.
The Liberal party is focusing its campaign locally on Northcote candidate Colin Fraser, said leader David Karwacki on Saturday.
Sign vandalism and theft is common in any political campaign, Karwacki said.
But Carlton resident and Saskatchewan Party supporter Bryan Rindal doesn't think the sign theft is typical. A sign went missing from his Carlton home late Wednesday evening.
"If I found it (the sign) in a bush, I would think it was kids."
Rindal also thought it was odd that 40 signs went missing in one night. He put up a new sign on Saturday.
"It is disheartening but it also makes the resolve stronger," said Rindal.
The signs were being replaced on the weekend but if they are stolen again, there isn't enough time to have new ones printed.
Hickie joked that he thinks his sign may be a collector item. He is offering to sign them Tuesday at noon in the campaign office, 3030 2nd Ave. W.
But on a more serious note, Hickie, a Prince Albert police officer now on leave for the campaign, said stealing the signs is a criminal offence.
Hickie also said putting up the signs involved the hard work of volunteers who will have to go out again.
A crew of about a dozen volunteers worked hard to put the signs up initially.
klongwell@paherald.ca
Election signs stolen
Election signs stolen
ELECTION Candidate says about 60 signs missing from Carlton riding area
Sixty Saskatchewan Party signs in the Prince Albert Carlton riding went missing last week, according to party supporters.
"The signs of the other parties are still standing," said Rick Orr, communication chairman for Saskatchewan Party Carlton candidate Darryl Hickie.
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- ed lives
- - November 20th, 2009 at 13:04:45
Well if the justice system does it job you can expect life for the perpetrators, and the pedophiles will go with impunity
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- a health worker
- - November 20th, 2009 at 11:58:11
dont vote for the sask party, i only say this for mainly one reason. sask party wants to make health care private, which means that u will have to pay for everything much like the states so if u were to go in to the hospital you will have to pay per day that u r in, for surgery u will have to pay, and for those of u planing on having children either starting more or maybe its ur children that r planning to have a child, just to have one child normally -no section could cost u up to 8000 for that one child
so in other words our health care system would b much like the states -
- Wally
- - November 20th, 2009 at 09:38:01
It's all part of the NDP's Green Strategy. And they want you to think that the Saskatchewan Party has a hidden agenda!
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- Deb
- - November 20th, 2009 at 05:36:01
c makes no sense.
The areas of the province with the most social problems: crime, unemployment, poverty, etc.... are the most reliably NDP. -
- Rebbeca
- - November 20th, 2009 at 04:41:30
It's too bad that others destroy property, but do we have to make it about party against party? I believe every candidate wants the best for this community and will try to do what he/she can when elected. As members of society it's our decision to be informed and then to choose to act on that information.
Good luck to all of the candidates. -
- Stan
- - November 20th, 2009 at 04:26:06
a health worker from Prince Albert, you are just spreading more lies. Why, if your ndp ideas are so good, do you have to lie? Why do the ndp'ers have knock down signs to get elected?
Surely if your government was so good you would be able to run on your record and on new ideas, instead all we hear from the ndp is lies.
You lies about health care are just ways of using peoples health as a tool to manipulate people. -
- Deb
- - November 20th, 2009 at 03:33:59
Dear health worker:
I thought taxes were so high that people can't aford to have children. -
- S
- - November 19th, 2009 at 23:09:51
ED! As a First Nations person who works, pays income taxes, gst & pst , I DO PAY TAX, when off reserve. You sound very uneducated & uninformed or should I say lack of knowledge in the Treaty Rights of First Nations People. All First Nations people pay taxes when off reserve.
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- Brie
- - November 19th, 2009 at 20:44:18
Stan What makes you think health worker is ndp?wht do you say the ndp are knocking down signs? lets stop the mudslinging and get to the real issues. I have lived in the states and HW lowballed those costs. 8000 was only if there were no complications. please don't blindly follow, read and follow your heart.
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- c
- - November 19th, 2009 at 13:21:16
dont vote for sk party unless u dont work and want more welfare check money damm bums get a job so we dont have to pay so much taxes
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- Ed's friend
- - November 18th, 2009 at 20:58:43
I will vote for the party that makes the indians pay tax and income tax.
We would be better off as a province if everybody contributed to our taxes.
ED you Rock!!!! -
- Deb
- - November 18th, 2009 at 20:45:17
This has been happening all ove rthe provinec to SP signs; you can read about it here: http://ndpboogeyman.blogspot.com/
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- james
- - November 18th, 2009 at 20:15:48
I would like to remind Ed's friends that we are not the ones that imposed the taxes. Its your government, we are our own governemt. This land is loaned to your government from us.
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- Dont
- - November 18th, 2009 at 19:53:01
Dont Give in to Ed - he is trying to get a rise out of you. In ALL his post he has been complaining about something. Usually outside the scope of the topic, now its First Nations before it was school taxes. I will not say any thing about Eds opinions (he has the right to express) but we all have the right not to listen or respond. The article almost points to a conspiracy against the Sask Party. Now it would be concerned if Elections were won by signs but they are not. Election campaigns are not even about issues anymore all they try to do is convince me why I should not vote for the other guy. As for whats going to happen when whomever wins the election only time will tell Not one party has ever done everything the others said they will do and Not one party has ever done everything they said they were going to do.
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- Brent
- - November 18th, 2009 at 18:04:36
For once Ed lives with a fish speaks some sense...lol
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- Brad
- - November 18th, 2009 at 17:48:57
Every time I hear the scare tactic about private medicare in Saskatchewan, I smile. The Canada Health Act requires provinces to adhere to the principles of access based on need, not ability to pay. Or the Province loses the Federal dollars directed at health care. Even Alberta (the NDP whipping post), which spends the most per capita in Canada on health care, follows the principles of the Canada health act. It is quite amusing to watch the NDP state that two new specialized day surgury clinics for Regina and Saskatoon are an innovation (why is this an innovation now after 6 years of Calvert government), but this actualy mirrors the practice of the Government of Alberta. Mr. Calvert wants to lead Canada, not follow Alberta. In this case, he is following.
The delivery of medicare in Saskatchewan must be focused on the patient, not the providers. And under the Canada Health Act. -
- Brie
- - November 18th, 2009 at 15:50:59
Odd, the article says no liberal signs were down, but I know I was out hammering 40 back up at 6 am. They were coreplast as well, not orange cardboard. This time I am voting for the best candidate.Imagine what a leg that would be?I am a swing vote to lib from ndp. how bad is that?
