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In this weekly series, Leader-Post reporter D.C. Fraser and StarPhoenix reporter Alex MacPherson round up everything happening on the campaign trail as candidates compete to be the next leader of the Saskatchewan Party and the Saskatchewan NDP.

No one will know the results for another 12 days, but the race to replace Brad Wall could already be decided.

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That is because ballots were mailed to the Saskatchewan Party’s 27,125 members last month, and are being completed and mailed back in the hundreds to the party’s office in Regina, where they will sit, just waiting to be counted, until Jan. 27.

With each of the candidates concentrating on getting out the vote — Ken Cheveldayoff, for example, has reportedly hit half a dozen cities over the last week, knocking on every party member’s door — there have been few policy announcements and fewer major developments.

Because it remains impossible to say who will win when the party members convene in Saskatoon later this month, speculation is worth little. Instead, here are a few smaller — but not insignificant — issues that have cropped up over the last seven days.