I haven’t picked a horse in the race for LPC President, but Sheila Copps is certainly the candidate I’m most familiar with – I was, after all, one of a very very small number of Copps delegates at the 2003 Liberal Leadership Convention.And while I like…
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A BCer in Toronto: Why Sheila Copps nearly made me scream at work
I should really turn off Twitter when I’m on the phone at work, because when I scanned my feed during a down moment in a conference call this afternoon and saw this story, I nearly let slip a stream of unparliamentary language that would have greatly c…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: NDP supporters want a Quebec leader and electoral cooperation with Liberals
A surprising finding from the latest Ipsos Reid poll, and a very disconcerting one for Brian Topp.A large majority (58%) of NDP supporters believe that the next leader should hail from Quebec:Fifty-eight per cent of NDP backers surveyed nationally stro…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Bob Rae on the Economy
Good speech from last week by Bob Rae on the Canadian economy in the global context.
It’s short on details, but well aimed in its critique of “ideological islands of waste and profligacy” in the Conservatives’ government spending agenda.
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: The NDP’s Trouncing in Saskatchewan Should be a Wake-Up Call
In the recent Saskatchewan provincial election, the NDP took a thrashing. From the Huffington Post:The Saskatchewan NDP suffered one of the most crushing blows in the party’s history Monday night. The once dominant party was reduced from 20 to ni…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Aaron Wherry profiles how some of the NDP’s youngest MPs won a place in office, and the work they’re doing now that they hold the role.- It isn’t the kind of endorsement against type that would have the largest…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Rae the reformer?
Bob Rae said a couple of very interesting things regarding the reform and rebuilding of the Liberal Party over the weekend that caught my eye – the main one being his idea of opening up the LPC leadership race to a US primary style – but al…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Suggestions for a new Open Primary election of the next Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
Bob Rae has opened the dialogue about how we elect our party leader, with a suggestion that we consider an open primary system of electing out next leader in 2013.Bob Rae and the LPC Primary SystemTo advance the dialogue, I would like to table a few su…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: RE: Rae calls for end to turf wars
Last night I was sent a link to an article in the Winipeg Free Press about Bob Rae calling out Liberal cliques, Liberal navel gazing, and turf wars. The Globe and Mail pipes in as well. I couldn’t agree more. Mr. Rae has signaled that he wants C…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: What Does Bob Rae Really Want to Do? We Need to Know.
It’s good, it’s very good. It hits all key points that it needs to, and there’s little in there I can find fault with. I especially like the primaries idea. It’s a tad idealistic but, hey, that’s the business we’re in.However, Paper Dynamite Online’s P…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Hints of the Rae Revolution in Bob’s comments
Finally, a breath of fresh air seems to be blowing through the Liberal Party. With one speech, Bob Rae has thrown down the gauntlet to our party, daring us to think outside the nine dots, and to prune where pruning is needed, and open our arms wide to …
Continue readingImpolitical: Can’t trust ’em
This story is on fire at the Globe site today: “Liberals storm out of House vote on unilingual Auditor-General.” A lot of predictable comments there, irrelevant Liberals, the third party, etc. Whatever the boo bots will bring in typical inflammatory fa…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Some good Polls
A new poll has the Liberals maybe in not so much good shape, but no where near invisible. The Conservatives are of course leading 37.7% and the NDP in second place at 30% while the Liberals are in 3rd place at 23.4%. If you compare this to the May resu…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leading nowhere
After several months of interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel being neatly edited out of far too much coverage of Canadian politics, it shouldn’t come as too much surprise that she’s behind Bob Rae in the latest Nanos leadership polling. But I’d think the m…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Dept. of Unintentional Irony
Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae speaks out on the issue of suicide prevention as an important public health matter.
Needless to say, committing suicide is a topic about which the Liberal Party of Canada has considerable first-hand knowledge and exper…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: The Just Crusade Against Quebec’s 25%
Fellow Liblogger Peter Wrightwater, who writes the blog Paper Dynamite Online, is going on something of a small crusade the last few days, attacking the apparent push, first by NDP leadership candidate Brian Topp, and now possibly by Liberal Leader Bob…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Timidity Of The Ontario NDP
I wrote earlier this month about the growing call from certain monied sectors for an increase in their personal taxation rates, arguing that they are not paying their fair share to support the country in which they grew and prospered. That plea, as no…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Killing The Bob Rae Myth
Watching the Ontario election you’d think that there was nothing of much import going on in the world. Why else would there be so little difference in the platforms of the three major parties in this election? For instance, you’d never know that a majo…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Fundamental myths about the Liberal Party and the interim leader
Let me start by making one thing perfectly clear: there is no rule that prevents interim Liberal leader Bob Rae from deciding to seek the permanent leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. Once again, THERE IS NO RULE! I resort to repetition and bri…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Fresh Merger Talks Raise the Question: Is it Time?
Thomas Walkom had a column in the Star this weekend, raising the possibility of Bob Rae as the next federal NDP leader.A rather silly attempt at reminding Canadians that he once led the NDP in Ontario, even acting as premier. While in office, Walkom wr…
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