Veteran Saskatchewan MLA and cabinet minister Lorne Calvert was elected his party’s leader (and Premier Roy Romanow’s successor) on this date in 2001. He was sworn-in as Premier days later. He would serve with distinction in that all-important post until his party was defeated by Brad Wall in Saskatchewan’s 2007 provincial election.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.