The Federal NDP signed up 45,000 new members to bring their national membership to 128,000 members. NDP Leadership Candidates (Clement Allard/Canadian Press) That sounds like a lot. But to put it into context, the BC Liberals had a membership of 96,000 going into their leadership vote, with about 40,000 of
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In the NDP Quest For Votes, Nothing Is Sacred, Not Even The Canada Health Act
I am well past the age where disillusionment comes easily, so it did not really surprise me to read of Peggy Nash’s willingness to abandon the principles of the Canada Health Act in her quest for Quebec support. Just another reason to regard ‘political integrity’ as a contemporary oxymoron. Recommend
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Dueling NDP Polls Show New Realities
So apparently NDP leadership candidates Paul Dewar, Thomas Mulcair, and Brian Topp have semi-released (Dewar maybe fully) internal campaign polls on the leadership race which are showing conflicting results. For a good analysis of the Dewar poll, read this Pundit’s Guide article. But here are these numbers as they’ve been
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Guest Post: Niki Ashton is young, but formidable, a future force to be reckoned with in the NDP
Niki Ashton at the City Arts Centre last night. Below: Post author Olav Rokne. Business forced me to be in our nation’s capital when Niki Ashton, the latest candidate for the leadership of the New Democratic Party to visit Edmonton, spoke at the City Arts Centre in Old Strathcona last
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: First impressions: No false steps that matter for NDP candidate Thomas Mulcair
Your blogger yesterday in a future vanity wall picture with NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair. Thomas Mulcair turned in a virtually faultless performance in Edmonton last night, proving once again that the federal Opposition New Democratic Party is attracting top-quality candidates as it completes its sad duty to replace Jack
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The Marxist Analysis of ‘the Wave’ in Sports Stadia
Perfesser Dave at a Blue Jays game, photo courtesy a kindly Yankees fan. Below: Exhibition Stadium – the cheap seats are at left, directly behind centre field! Below that: Thomas Mulclair; Niki Ashton. Maclean’s Magazine once said that the Toronto Maple Leafs – which should be called the Maple Leaves,
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: First impressions: NDP leadership candidate Peggy Nash in Edmonton
NDP leadership candidate Peggy Nash at last night’s “kitchen-table talk” in Edmonton. Below: Marlin Schmidt. There are only three or so of the nine candidates for the leadership of the federal New Democratic Party, and therefore for Leader of the Opposition, who are truly qualified to do the job and
Continue readingBlunt Objects: And the winner of the first NDP debate is….
The Conservatives, because of the massive wealth of soundbites gained from the debate which will paint the new NDP leader as wanting to raise taxes, put through a carbon tax, destroy Canada’s resource extraction sector, and cripple free trade. What’s worse is that pretty much every candidate said those exact
Continue readingpolitics on CAPS LOCK: Liveblogging the first NDP leadership debate
The first NDP leadership debate is about to start. I’m not even going to liveblog in caps, THAT IS HOW SERIOUSLY I AM TREATING IT 12:03 Robert Chisholm, he is already somebody that I like. Here comes Niki Ashton, I like her too. So yeah, it’s going to be 120
Continue readingBlunt Objects: #NDPldr Debate #1: The Economy
Today’s Dipper leadership debate takes place in Ottawa at 2pm EST til 4pm, and apparently will focus on the economy. Now what, you make ask, does a Dipper have to say about the economy that isn’t anything but tax rises? Well, there’s nine of them there to tell you what’s
Continue readingBlunt Objects: No, Paul Dewar, the NDP Has the Most to Grow in Ontario
Paul Dewar, NDP leadership candidate and MP for Ottawa Centre, has a very silly quote attributed to him: “The orange wave stopped in Manitoba…” No, the orange wave really stopped in Ontario, where the NDP’s small 7-point rise but failure to capitalize upon those gains to provide counterbalance to the
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Handicapping the NDP Leadership Race
Eric Grenier over at 308.com has done something very fantastic this week with the conclusion of the provincial election bonanza that will be extremely helpful as the NDP leadership race moves along: an actual predictive method.You’d have to read Grenie…
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the regina mom feels wealthy these days. She was fortunate enough to be a recipient of an Emerging Artists Award from the Canada Council for the Arts last spring. There’s no scramble for contract work and there’s a bit of extra money around her house. So she got her hubby to blow twenty bucks on […]
Peggy Nash for NDP Leader
This morning Peggy Nash announced her candidacy for the leadership of the NDP. I’ve been waiting with baited breath for this moment and upon the announcement I sent an email to Peggy and her team issuing my full support of her candidacy. The emai…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Nash, Chisholm Likely Round Out Dipper Field
Both Peggy Nash (Parkdale-High Park) and Robert Chisholm (Dartmouth-Cole Harbour) have announced their intentions to enter into the increasingly crowded NDP leadership race, with Chisholm’s announcement coming up this Sunday, and Nash’s will be today (…
Continue readingLeDaro: Martin Singh: The new leader of NDP!
Sounds good to me. He is from the great Maritimes, wears fancy turban and looks likeable.“If New Democrats want a leader who will focus on Canada’s business community, the environment and health care, Martin Singh says he’s their man.”Read the …
Continue readingpolitics on CAPS LOCK: Meeting the Candidates
I’ve made my mind up about who gets my #1 vote in the NDP leadership election, March 24, 2012, in Toronto. It’s Tom Mulcair. Almost every declared and non-declared (or expectant) candidate for the national NDP leadership were in Edmonton this weekend. At first, we heard that Paul Dewar was
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Updated NDP & Bloc Leadership
So, as everyone who is anyone should be aware now that Québec’s favourite son, Outremont MP Thomas Mulcair, has officially jumped into the race, and beside him come 33 MPs, including two veterans from Ontario.Mulcair, with the 33 caucus endorsements, …
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Mulcair In, Julian Out
Well, I got one of the two right:Quebec NDP MP Thomas Mulcair will be among those vying for his party’s leadership, Radio-Canada has learned.The Official Opposition’s deputy leader is preparing to make the announcement some time next week. Mulcair said…
Continue readingpolitics on CAPS LOCK: HAVN’T POSTED IN A WHILE LOL
EVERYONE LOVES IT WHEN A BLOGGER COMES BACK AFTER A LONG ABSENCE TO WRITE A POST ABOUT HOW THEY “HAVEN’T BLOGGED IN A WHILE LOL” !!! I’M NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO MAKE THIS JOKE OBV THIS IS MY INSPIRATION. SRSLY SHE MADE THE JOKE FIRST AND I’M BLATANTLY LIFTING
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