NDP Leadership election: What happened to 8,000 live votes?
According toone report, there were about 11,000 live voters at the NDP convention: The attack over the weekend slowed down the voting processby several hours over two ballots, forcing the…
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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…
Robocon: Lest we forget – The Elections Canada CEO report to Parliament
KadyO’Malley did the country a service by refusing to be sidetracked by Harper’sscheduling of the interim reportto the House by ChiefElectoral Officer Marc Mayrand for the same day as thebudget.…
Robocon: Keep your eyes on these seven ridings
With thethree opposition parties sitting on their hands in the face of convincingevidence of voter suppression in dozens of ridings during the May 2011election, Canadians can thank their lucky stars…
The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven
Canada’s Woodward & Bernstein, Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor, of Postmedia News, today bring us news about The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven. In the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven,…
The Three Weaknesses of the Mulcair NDP that the Harper Tories will attack
Congratulations to the NDP for having over 60,000 members of the party involved in electing their new leader, and for using an advanced preferential vote system coupled with a live…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
Bob Rae asks Liberals to do something stupid: Fight fire with fire
Stephen Harper, his coffers brimming with cash donated through skillful use of the expensive and effective CIMS voter contact database, tossed a few dollars into the hopper and came out…
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…
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…
The Most Logical Structure for NDP-LPC Cooperation
Those who favour a merger of the NDP and Liberal Party should not hold their breath. These two parties have values systems that are significantly different at the moment, and…
Liberal Party should not pay for Bob Rae’s defence against Tory attack ads
Harper’s trademark politicking rears its head again, with the Tories using the admirable money-raising machine they have created with the use of their vaunted CIMS outreach computer database to fund…
Cooperation: Nathan Cullen on same page as Jack Layton while Mulcair goes his own way
On the single most important issue facing the opposition parties in the next 3 years or so, Thomas Mulcair has come down strongly on one side of the issue, with…
Thomas Mulcair is out of step with 60% of NDP supporters
Although Thomas Mulcair is popular with many NDP supporters, who admire his feistiness, his views on the ‘new politics’ idea of electoral cooperation are at odds with a huge majority…
The Root of the Conflict between NDP’s Ed Broadbent and Thomas Mulcair
Canadians can be excused for feeling a bit out of touch with the squabble that has engulfed the NDP. Ed Broadbent, the old warhorse with a long record of service…