NDP leader Carla Beck is gearing up for a provincial election, but she finds solace in her childhood home near Redlicks Lake in Lang, Saskatchewan. This favourite spot helps Beck feel grounded and prepared for the challenges ahead.
A young Carla Beck learned life lessons beside Redlicks Lake near her hometown of Lang, Saskatchewan : how to feed cows, swing a bat and never keep her mouth shut. The NDP leader's favourite spot for clarity is where she says she always feels more grounded. With a provincial election expected on October 28th - her first bid to become premier - Beck's finding solace in nature before the campaign heats up.
'I always feel more grounded, more myself, when I get to be out here,' Beck said on a recent fall day. The sky is grey, starlings flock, crickets chirp and her dogs, Piper and Scout, dash through the grass near a canola field. “A lot of times people will look and say it’s flat and all the same, but it’s not,' she said.'The skies are always changing, the birds here are always changing. If you look closely, the flowers are different.' Those close to the 50-year-old say Beck grew up needing to get involved, to make a difference. “She would stand up for others,” said her mother, Judy Beck, a longtime volunteer and a licensed worship leader who does funeral services. Her dad, Ray Beck, said she once got punched in the eye as a teen while trying to break up a fight between two other girls. 'She had a beauty shiner,' he said with a laugh. The oldest of three children, Carla Beck said she knew she wanted to help people as a teen. She recalled speaking with a girl who had been sexually assaulted. They were both 16 at the time, she said, and the girl was prepared to harm herself. Beck talked her out of it. “At the end she told me, ‘You’re pretty good at this. You should do this.’ I don’t know if it was as simple as that, but I remember thinking this is something I could do.” She said her parents always told her to speak out if she saw something wrong. “What I really couldn’t do — and this won’t surprise people who knew me — I have difficulty keeping my mouth shut,” Beck added
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