Assorted content for your afternoon reading.- Jim Stanford highlights the Cons’ thoroughly imbalanced view of labour disputes by pointing out that their concern for the economy has been limited to action by workers rather than employers:When employers …
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CalgaryGrit: This Race Is Unfair, Vote For Mulcair!
Some leadership campaigns like to make a policy announcement every week.For Thomas Mulcair, it appears he had adopted a “complaint-a-week” strategy. The latest:NDP’s Mulcair blames ‘whisper campaign’ for tough slogging in leadership effortCandidate say…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Arithmetic says that NDP MP Nathan Cullen’s electoral cooperation plan can succeed
It’s been a little over a week since Nathan Cullen launched his bid for leadership of the NDP with a bold plan to encourage cooperation between members of the three opposition parties in those ridings where sitting Tory MPs were vulnerable.Despite the …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Andrew Coyne asks some disturbing questions as to how the federal government is becoming less and less accountable:In other countries, executive power is subject to various checks and balances. Who or …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Any one of the NDP’s Two and a Half Men would make a good leader & PM
The NDP now have three good candidates for their top job: The Fighter, The Dealer and The Visionary.Both Brian Topp and Thomas Mulcair have decades of experience in practical politics, with Mulcair on the hustings and Topp in the proverbial smoke-fille…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Reasons behind the Cullen Plan to Turf-a-Tory in 2015
Why would a young MP decide to join the race for leadership of the NDP, when he faces competition from veterans in the field, such as a backroom dealer, Brian Topp, backed by the party brass, and a seasoned politician , Thomas Mulcair, who fought and w…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Do Brian Topp & Thomas Mulcair have the right "leadership material" to head the NDP? MP Pat Martin says No!
Outspoken NDP MP Pat Martin is calling their leadership skills into question because of their ‘knee jerk’ rejection of the Turf-a-Tory Cullen Plan floated by NDP MP Nathan Cullen earlier this week when he joined the fray for leadership of that party:Na…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: More support for Nathan Cullen’s idea of electoral cooperation
Pat Martin is clearly onside; both Topp and Mulcair praise his innovativeness; and now Thomas Walkom, National Affairs Columnist of The Toronto Star, is onside. In an article headed A Plan to Unite the ‘Left’ that just might work, Walkom writes:From in…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Pat Martin: NDP Leadership Race is an Intellectual Ghetto
Straight talking NDP MP Pat Martin praises Nathan Cullen for his idea to turf out the Tory government, and gives a backhanded swipe to the idea-less NDP leadership race:MP Pat MartinHowever, NDP MP Pat Martin, who has called for the NDP and the Liberal…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: NDP MP Nathan Cullen’s case for electoral cooperation
The leadership race for the NDP just got a lot more interesting.Enter the Innovation Leadership Candidate: An NDP MP has thrown his hat in the ring in order to start a national dialogue geared to discussing serious methods for progressives to cooperate…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: In leadership news…
…Justin Trudeau won’t run, but Thomas Mulcair will.So this sets us up for a Mulcair-Topp battle for Stornoway. All early indications are that Topp and Mulcair will play nice with each other, while their supporters mercilessly smear each other in the …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Mulcair Story trumps Topp Story in NDP Leadership Race
Mark these words: Underdog, Shoulder to Shoulder, and Winnability.They are the combination of images that most likely will propel feisty Thomas Mulcair to the leadership position of Canada’s federal NDP party.The Top Two Duke it out:Topp burst out of t…
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 readingAccidental Deliberations: Right turn, wrong way
I wouldn’t have expected to end up concurring with Rob Silver’s analysis of the NDP leadership race. But there’s an awful lot of truth to Silver’s take on Thomas Mulcair’s strategy – particularly based on some of what Mulcair had to say in the lead up …
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 readingCuriosityCat: Thomas Mulcair: You need a Story
Welcome to the race for the leadership of the federal NDP.And before you launch into your campaign, you would do well to ponder the campaign strategies devised for two recent success stories in Alberta by Stephen Carter.This is a summary of his w…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: NDP will lose ground in Quebec under Topp and gain under Mulcair – Angus-Reid poll
Some very bad news for the NDP in the latest Angus-Reid poll. That sound you hear in the background is the clucking of the chickens coming home to roost:Most Canadian voters are standing by their choices in the May 2011 election, but the survey shows t…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Mulcair – the NDP’s Best Option?
He is according to Angus Reid’s latest poll, which says that Mulcair would lead the NDP to the best result in a general election today, and is the most well-thought-of among NDP members and the general public.This being said, the results are so small b…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Thomas Mulcair and the NDP
As I’ve said before I don’t really want to discuss the NDP leadership race until all the candidates have declared, and I’ve heard what they have to say.But since Brian Topp seems to be leaving the impression that The Force is with him because he’s smar…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: My deflating optimism about the NDP leadership race
For a while, I was feeling very energized about the NDP leadership race. We on the left were going to get six months or so to have a real and refreshing discussion of values and policies about where to go from here. With a relatively new One Member One…
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