Paper Dynamite Online: Nails It Again

With the Mulcair NDP and the Harper Conservative ground so clearly staked, Liberals now have a unique opportunity to define the vital center without kowtowing to the left or the right.As a Liberal, I cannot think of a better place to be.For me, that means advancing an economic and social

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Paper Dynamite Online: Nails It

From the day [Pierre Trudeau] resigned in 1984 to today, the Liberal Party has never developed a new and cogent framework for what it believes in. In her book “Divided Loyalties”, Brooke Jeffrey described the turmoil within the Liberal Party from 1984. What cemented foment was the great chasm brought

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CalgaryGrit: Party of Principle

While Peter C. Newman has been getting headlines with his diagnosis that the Liberal Party is dead, Andrew Coyne offers his recipe for resurrection here. While I generally agree with Coyne’s article, like Far and Wide, I would quibble that his criticism of the roadmap to renewal is unfair (“do

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CalgaryGrit: Renewal

There has been a lot of talk about Liberal Party renewal since election night. Which is encouraging – after a punch to gut like that, it’s easy to give up, but it sounds like there’s a real appetite out there to change the party for the better.Bellow i…

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