Carnie's Comments
It's Throwback Thursday - just a minute to remember the good ol' days.
With the provincial election campaign underway, I'm throwing it back to the first election I covered as a reporter.
It was the 1986 provincial election.
In those days, you couldn't get results on the world-wide web. Your best bet for up-to-the-minute results was the AM radio.
I was sent south to Assiniboia where Liberal leader Ralph Goodale had his campaign office. SaskTel had installed a line for us so reporting was a breeze. All I had to do was set the scene and deliver results every 15 or 20 minutes.
A quiet start to the evening with some coffee, donuts and cigarettes with fellow reporters turned into an action-packed night with so many supporters, too many, in fact. Some of them stood outside and listened to my reports on their car radios.
When the dust had settled, the Progressive Conservative Party under Premier Grant Devine was returned for a second term and Goodale was the only Liberal elected.
I remember that night very well and it was 38 years ago this month.