With polls showing neither the Liberal nor the Conservative parties being able to secure a firm majority in the coming election, we might be poised for a historic breakthrough in…
The party needs to raise substantially more money than it has in past years, from smaller donations and from a much wider donor base.At the same time, the party is…
The European Union is a loose confederation of widely divergent nation states, with the weaker ones suffering from the consequences of a worldwide recession, living beyond their needs, and financial…
They're off! The race for the new leader of the Official Opposition party – the NDP – is now on, with one major announced candidate (Brian Topp) and the other…
Right now, the NDP in Quebec is punching far below its weight when it comes to the number of Quebeckers signed up as members of that party. In fact, it…
The latest Harris Decima poll shows little appetite for a merger of the NDP and Liberal Party.However, this poll only shows the views of supporters of these two parties with…
Governments of developed countries have lost their way. They do not understand the problems facing their economies, and have allowed right wing economic ideologues to stampede them into premature and…
If Obama wants to know which of these two men he will be facing in the 2012 election, he could find the answer from a French-born anthropologist who could be…
We are entering the time of conventions, when new policies will be discussed as part of the Liberal Party renewal process.I extend the invitation to Liberal riding associations to talk…
One day, when the history of the phone hacking done by News of the World reporters is finally written, will historians record that the 15 minutes of the disputed conversation…
This issue is boiling up right now, and on Friday the party brass will decide whether to continue the favoured position of trade unions by reserving one quarter of the…
There's a good chance he or she will.If the NDP executive (bureaucracy) decide on September 9 to hamstring the Quebec wing of the NDP by setting a date for the…
To say that the future of the NDP as a possible government-to-be hangs in the balance is not overstating the issue. On September 9 the party brass might make a…
If it is any earlier, it will be very unfair to Quebec, the home of a whopping 59 of the 103 NDP MPs.Any earlier election might well be viewed by…
The answer is Yes if pollster Allan Gregg'sspeculations are right. The NDP has 33% - tied with the Tories:Jack Layton's untimely death has triggered another orange wave across the country,…
Liberals have a golden opportunity to shape the contours of our politics for the next decade by involving themselves in the NDP leadership selection process.They can do this by talking…
Summer nonsense spilled over into the press conference held today with Bob Rae. One of the questions dealt with a possible merger between the Liberal and NDP parties. Rae was…
Rick Perry would be a dramatically different president than George Bush Junior was, if he lives up to his stated intentions. Unlike most recent Republican presidents, who have hypocritically preached…
This is what Adam Radwanski said in today's Globe & Mail:It should be humbling to his contemporaries that this was enough to make many Canadians acutely feel a void as…
So irate voters in BC, the greatest of the Canadian provinces, have risen up and cast aside the HST decision made by the Liberal government:In this referendum, 1.6 million voters…
