Carla Beck: School trustee, social worker seeks job as next Saskatchewan premier [Video]

Carla Beck steps out of her SUV with her two dogs and starts walking beside a lake near her hometown, the spot where she learned to feed cows, swing a bat and not keep her mouth shut.

Redlicks Lake near the village of Lang, south of Regina, is the NDP leader’s favourite place to get away and clear her head. She’s gearing up for a provincial election, with polling expected on Oct. 28, in her first bid to become premier.

“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 …