The NDP leadership race is heating up and the most interesting development to me is that there seems to be a competition growing for who can be the most concerned about the sorry state of our democracy and the most committed to fix it. Take Peggy Nash, her website has
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Pop The Stack: Electoral Reform on the NDP Radar
The NDP leadership race is heating up and the most interesting development to me is that there seems to be a competition growing for who can be the most concerned about the sorry state of our democracy and the most committed to fix it. Take Peggy Nash, her website has
Continue readingPop The Stack: Harper’s Win-At-All-Costs Approach Led to Electoral Manipulation
The first wave of dust is settling from the revelation this week that a company hired by the Conservative party made fraudulent calls to voters trying to mislead them about voting day locations. We still don’t know how high up the decision was made to make these calls. I think we
Continue readingPop The Stack: Harper’s Win-At-All-Costs Approach Led to Electoral Manipulation
The first wave of dust is settling from the revelation this week that a company hired by the Conservative party made fraudulent calls to voters trying to mislead them about voting day locations. We still don’t know how high up the decision was made to make these calls. I think we
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Canadian Foreign Policy: Nuance Matters
This video (from April, 2011 before the election) was brought to my attention today. Some thoughts: We should not forget, nor should we let Canadians forget that Stephen Harper lost a seat on the United Nations Security Council, for the first time ever. With the situation in Syria and the
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Grant Gordon: The Real New Progressive Politics
These videos are both fantastic for similar reasons. They both show how positive and energetic Mr. Grodon is and how he is the progressive voice that Toronto-Danforth needs in Ottawa. I had the pleasure of spending two days canvassing for Mr. Gordon. The first thing I noticed was that the
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Toronto-Danforth Federal Liberal Nomination Meeting 2012
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Continue readingConservatives create problems, not solutions
#cpc #gop #lpc #ndp #cdnpoli #politics In the news; the appeals court in California overturned a ban on same sex marriage. This ban was a citizen inspired law triggered by the then legalized gay marriage laws in California. The court found essentially that rights, once given, cannot be taken away.
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Notice of Annual General Meeting of the Whitby-Oshawa Federal Liberal Association (February 29th, 7:30pm.)
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Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Time Will Merge What Liberals & NDPers Can’t
Up upon an isolated mountain top, in a dark and long forgotten manor, underneath thunderous clouds, a large titanic body of gears and motors emblazoned in red stands motionless. The large lifeless liberal leviathan, composed of parts gathered from across the land and across time is all but complete except
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Queer Liberal Caucus Coffee House A Huge Success
On Sunday, January 29th a group of 45+ Queer Liberals, Liberally Curious Canadians and allies of the LGBTQ community (myself included) met at the Church Street Community Centre to talk, drink coffee and build on the momentum of the biennial convention. I was really impressed with the turn out for
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Outshining Trudeau
Just as Liberals look at Justin Trudeau and ask if he is like his father, many are asking if he will run for leader, the answer to one is the answer to the other. Though Justin Trudeau has stated he will not be running for Liberal Leader, citing his duty
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Does Stephen Harper Support Coalitions?
If coalitions are undemocratic and a threat to Canada, why hasn’t this strong stable Conservative majority government done anything to make sure they don’t ravage our nation? Simple, Stephen Harper supports coalitions. Just over three years ago Stephen Harper and members of his party said coalitions were a threat to
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Liberal Invisibility Is Liberal Non-Existence
Liberals like to pretend, and this is reinforced by public opinion, that the Liberal Party didn’t stand for anything in the last election and that’s why they lost. Liberal members and the public both say this, both acknowledge this, both perpetuate this, that the party led by Michael Ignatieff offered
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Chris Drew: People, Plenary, and Places: 2012 LPC Biennial Convention
(Chris and Joseph: excited to be at Biennial!) The 2012 Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) Biennial meeting was the fifth Biennial meeting I’ve attended as Liberal delegate from Toronto Centre. As with previous Biennial meetings, it was a great experience and offered some unique moments as these meetings always do.
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Liberal History
Laurier, McKenzie King, Pearson, Trudeau, Chretien all mean nothing to the Liberal Party, to Canada if we as members and as Canadians do nothing. Though each man was great in his own time, their greatness today rests on our shoulders. For if the Liberal Party was to disintegrate, was to
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Thank you Alexander Mackenzie!
Today is the 138th anniversary of the Canada’s 3rd federal election and the election of Canada’s first Liberal Prime Minister, Alexander Mackenzie. PM Mackenzie’s short tenure as PM have us secret ballot, the Royal Military College of Canada, the Office of the Auditor Genera and he advised the creation of the Supreme
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Bryan Bondy: Sorry Seems To Be The Easiest Word
Bryan Bondy (Delegate from Perth-Wellington.) Somewhere out there in the great yonder of the Internet, someone has made the statement, or something close to it, that the Liberal Party of Canada needs to embrace change and listen to grassroots values as it engages ordinary Canadians in rebuilding (and then something
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Greg D’Cunha: The Monarchy: The Non-Priority Priority Resolution
Greg D’Cunha (Delegate from Whitby-Oshawa, Ontario.) On Sunday morning, delegates at the Liberal Biennial Convention voted against Priority Resolution 114 which urged that Parliament “form an all party committee to study the implementation of instituting a Canadian head of state popularly elected and sever formal ties with the British Crown.”
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Leanne Bourassa: My LPC 2012 Convention experience.
Leanne Bourassa (Former candidate for National Membership Secretary.) Where to begin? My LPC 2012 Convention experience actually began in November 2011 when I submitted my nomination forms for the National Table Officer position of National Membership Secretary. Most of the people who signed my nomination form didn’t even know about
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