A lot has been written about the Conservative leadership race. But, so far, the contest for the leadership of the NDP has generated little comment — mainly because, until recently, nobody wanted the job. But now that Peter Julian, Charlie Angus and Guy Caron have put in their applications, attention
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Northern Reflections: The Future of The NDP
A lot has been written about the Conservative leadership race. But, so far, the contest for the leadership of the NDP has generated little comment — mainly because, until recently, nobody wanted the job. But now that Peter Julian, Charlie Angus and Guy Caron have put in their applications, attention
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Cheri Di Novo Is Fucking Nuts
That is all.Other than maybe this, for now. THERE IS MORE!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Cheri Di Novo Is Fucking Nuts
That is all.Other than maybe this, for now. THERE IS MORE!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Cheri Di Novo Is Fucking Nuts
That is all. Other than maybe this, for now. THERE IS MORE!
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Rachel Notley will either enter the Alberta NDP leadership race today or hold the strangest news conference ever
About-to-declare NDP leadership candidate Rachel Notley with the author of this blog. Below: Already declared NDP leadership candidate David Eggen with the same guy; Grant Notley. Bottom: Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Ric McIver at the “March for Jesus” in Calgary yesterday, grabbed from Mr. McIver’s Twitter account. Good morning, everyone.
Continue readingcenterandleft: Mulcair’s Center Squeeze
Most New Democrats – probably all New Democrats – genuinely dislike Steven Harper. With good reason, he’s muzzled scientists, bullied unions, abandoned the impoverished, given tax breaks to the largest corporations, all things that stir up democratic socialists. Yet, their newly minted leader was not only represented the Quebec Liberal Party in the Quebec National […]
CuriosityCat: NDP claims about voter suppression attempts doubtful?
The NDPis claiming that the massive voter suppression attacks – done during thesecond, third and final ballot, and over the course of several hours, andinvolving more false calls than the NDP’s total membership and over 10,000captive or slave computers – did not have any effect on the number of partymembers
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The NDP Leadership vote: The Puzzle of just how many people voted
Trying topiece the numbers together to get a handle on the impact of voter suppressionduring the NDP leadership election is difficult because of the conflictingreports about just how many people voted in various ways. The NDPshould advise its members just how many people voted beforehand, how many votedlive while attending
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Did voter suppression change the results of the NDP leadership election?
For the2012 NDP leadership vote to be considered legitimate, the NDP needs to employwhatever devices it can (including resort to Elections Canada and the RCMP) toput to bed the valid questions which can be raised about the validity of itsconvention results. It ispossible that the results were influenced by the
Continue readingLeDaro: Thomas Mulcair Wins the NDP Leadership Race
It was a long and at times exceptionally boring convention. Because of the computer glitches and delay in vote count, it looked like an eternity especially as – on top of the glitches – it took four ballots to declare Mulcair winner. When I watched the very first debate between
Continue readingLeDaro: Nathan Cullen: NDP Leadership Race March 2012
I believe Nathan Cullen gave one of the best speeches at the NDP Leadership convention in Toronto. Watch and enjoy. Thomas Mulcair and Peggy Nash stumbled a bit.Read more here.Despite the missteps my predictions is that Thomas Mulcair will win the leadership.
Continue readingImpolitical: NDP Convention – Day 1
Don’t know how coherent or value added this will be after a day of tweeting, thought I’d try to get a few things down here. First of all, impressions on the afternoon’s “showcases” of the candidates, as the NDP termed them. There were a lot of supplemental activities (floor demos,
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Liberal blogger CalgaryGrit makes persuasive argument for Cullen as NDP leader
WesternGrit ranks the top NDP leadership candidates through the prism of what is best for the Liberal Party, and, while expressly not endorsing any candidate, outlines a very strong case for Nathan Cullen as the best NDP choice for Canada (my underlining): How would Cullen affect the LPC? Well, if
Continue readingCuriosityCat: NDP Members: You can guarantee that an NDP MP will be our next prime minister IF …
… IF you make your decision to listen to the massive outpouring of views by NDP supporters and Liberal Party supporters, the bulk of whom favour electoral cooperation and post-election cooperation, designed to oust the Harper Tory government and put in place a government more in tune with the 60%
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Sorry, Michael: There will be Group Think at the NDP leadership convention
Michael Den Tandt of Postmedia News has been wrestling with the challenges posed by the unique NDP convention method. It is the first time in Canadian history that a leadership election will be fought in two spaces (the physical one of the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto), and in cyberspace
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Ten thousand Canadians on electoral cooperation
The online activist group Leadnow.ca surveyed its members and found this result: This could be the start of something big. Last Thursday, we sent a message to the whole Leadnow community. We asked if you would support political cooperation between the NDP, Liberals and Greens to defeat the current government
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Will Nathan Cullen have to thank these 2 if he becomes leader on Saturday?
We’ve heard little about the results of the push by these two significant groups, but perhaps by Sunday morning we will all be nodding our heads and saying: Of course! That’s what made it possible! Nathan Cullen – The Uniter Two online advocacy organizations are giving a potentially big boost
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The C-word: Refreshing honesty from NDP’s Nathan Cullen
Remember when Michael Ignatieff turned himself into a pretzel while trying to respond to the simple question whether he would or would not enter into a coalition with other parties if the Tories did not get a majority? It seemed that every day he had another answer, with the latest
Continue readingCuriosityCat: 40,000 Dippers Down, 90,000 to go!
There is a lot of interest in the election of the next NDP leader: thousands have already cast their preferential voting ballots! The NDP’s two-day leadership convention begins Friday in Toronto. More than 40,000 members have already voted using advance online or mail-in ballots. There are 131,000 members eligible to
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