There are barely 2 weeks left before Canada knows who will be the next leader of the NDP. There are 130,000 members of the NDP entitled to make this decision; and some 60,000 plus One hold the future of Canada in their hands. Your choice – as one of those
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Driving The Porcelain Bus: Howard Hampton’s letter endorsing Thomas Mulcair
The following is an open letter from former Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party Howard Hampton on behalf of NDP Deputy Leader Thomas Mulcair. Fellow New Democrats, As we head into the final weeks of this leadership race, I’m impressed by the positive energy that’s building behind Thomas Mulcair.
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: "Tom Mulcair is the NDPs only alternative"
from Troy Media: Tom Mulcair is the NDP’s only alternative I’ve highlighted some key points in the article. ATHABASCA, AB, Mar. 9, 2012, Troy Media/ – “Ordinary Canadians,” to use a phrase that New Democratic Party leaders have been repeating for decades, are clear about whom they want to win
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Open questions
As discussed in some of the comments to this post, there seems to be plenty of room for the NDP’s leadership candidates to provide much-needed information on how they want to see the party develop in the years to come. And I’ll plan to contact each of the campaigns this
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Roundup
A few days worth of news from the NDP’s leadership campaign… – Niki Ashton appealed to NDP members to consider the need to build among younger voters. – Co-campaign manager Jamey Heath took to the opinion pages in defence of Nathan Cullen’s joint nomination proposal. But I seem to recall
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Thomas Mulcair interviewed by Planet S
Planet S recently interviewed Thomas Mulcair, NDP Leadership 2012 candidate: THOMAS MULCAIR In 2008, Thomas Mulcair became the first NDP MP to be elected in Québec. Prior to that, Mulcair, as Québec’s Environment Minister with the provincial Liberal government, fought for a groundbreaking amendment to the Québec Charter of Human
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Why Nobody Believes the Conservative Talking Points on the RoboCon Scandal.
Mere days ago the Conservative Party finally admitted their guilt in the “In & Out” election fraud scandal (remember that the Conservative Party headquarters was raided by the RCMP.) Months ago, the Conservative Party admitted that they paid to make phone calls in Mount Royal (saying Irwin Cotler was going
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservative Robocall Double Standard
If a single standard is good, a double standard must be better. On March 5 with his party embroiled in the Robocall scandal Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro stood up during Question Period and called for the Liberals to release their robocall records. When asked less than thirty minutes later
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: BC Teachers Hurt The Left & Help The Right
The teachers’ strike in British Columbia this week was bad for the province but good for the BC Liberals. Facing challenges from the NDP on their left and the Conservatives on their right, for the BC Liberals an unpopular labour dispute couldn’t have happened at a better time. Over the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On best-case scenarios
Any organization faces questions in trying to make the best use of the resources available to it. And in most cases, a deliberative body should be able to consider who might contribute what to the organization’s goals, and ensure that power and responsibility are allocated accordingly. In principle, there’s no
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Robocon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor dig deeper into the story behind Robocon alias Pierre Poutine. – Maurice Vellacott admits that the voter lists needed to carry out multi-riding voter suppression were controlled strictly by the Cons’ central command – meaning there’s no prospect
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: BC Teachers On Strike Yet Still Teaching
This week Teachers in BC haven’t even been in the classroom, yet they’ve still managed to teach their students one of the most important things; how to take a stand. Critics will point out at how young people are already too self-assured and that they already have no respect for
Continue readingFor #NDPLDR, It’s Thomas Mulcair or Bust
I made a Storify story out of my most recent decision to support Thomas Mulcair for NDP leader but seem to be having some trouble embedding it to my wordpress (thanks to my lack of knowledge on many things HTML). So, here is the link. Enjoy. Filed under: Canada, Progressives
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Reading the NDP Tea Leaves
Any good pundit (for is that not what I aspire to become?) must dispense with caution and modesty from time to time and, in godlike fashion, attempt to predict the future. It is a virtually risk-free enterprise. If my prediction turns out wrong, no one will notice or care, because
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Roundup
As we enter the last few weeks of the NDP’s leadership race, we’re of course seeing loads of attention. But what from the flurry of activity might actually affect the results of the leadership race as well as the party’s future development? – Niki Ashton took questions at Rabble, including
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: RoboCon and the Big Pile of Dead Stupidity
RoboCon, RoboGate and/or RoboCalls,… Listening to the various CPC RoboPosters this whole RoboScandal is some massive diabolical Liberal/Dipper/Anarchist/OccupyWallStr. Drum Circle conspiracy to make Harper and the CPC look bad. So lets see if you can make sense of this Liberal/Dipper/Anarchist/OccupyWallStr. Drum Circle conspiracy works. Liberal/Dipper/Anarchist/Occupy Drum Circle operative buys a
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: NDP vs The RoboCall Scandal
The corporate mainstream media has been doing a pretty lousy job of giving fair coverage to the official opposition party, the NDP. Someone who didn’t know better might think the Liberals were still the official opposition party in Canada when reading the big daily papers (on-line or the paper copies).
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The BC Teachers’ Regressive Labour Strike
In 2010 the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation declared its opposition to the HST because it was a regressive tax, affecting the poor and families more than the wealthy and corporations. Yesterday the BCTF went on strike and while the cost for childcare and sports programs is easily covered by rich
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On case studies
Chantal Hebert draws pretty much the exact opposite conclusion as I do from the opportunities raised by a close leadership race. But yesterday’s debate offered us a neat reminder as to whether we should buy into the theory that the NDP will continue its success in Quebec if and only
Continue readingFar and Wide: Conservative Cracks
Three years until we vote, meaningless, yes I understand! Nanos poll out with a few noteworthy results, not the least of which the walking dead party, the Liberals, touch 30% nationally, pretty remarkable, even if it’s a one off result(I bet they can’t keep Peter C. Newman’s book on the
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