On target groups
We've already seen a couple of days of frantic media speculation as to who might succeed Jack Layton as the NDP's permanent leader, and I'll add my own list of…
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Greatly Exaggerated Rumours, Jack Layton Edition
by matttbastard Michael Valpy addresses the current conventional wisdom that without Jack Layton, the NDP — and Canada’s left — is now doomed, doomed, DOOMED! Ahem. Sorry ’bout that. Now,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Heather Mallick highlights the dangers of the permanent unemployment which regressive politicians around the globe are so vociferously demanding in the guise…
New column day
Here, on Jack Layton's political legacy of choosing principle over political expediency.
A Post-Jack NDP: If the NDP were a stock I’d be shorting them
Jack Layton, long time NDP leader, died on August 22nd. He brought the NDP from 13 seats and 8.9% of the vote under Alexa McDonough to his stupendous 2011 results…
Jack Layton, in Pictures
Although most of the tributes to Layton have focused on his role on Parliament Hill, he will be missed from coast to coast - cycling with Olivia, attending local festivals,…
Saying goodbye
I went to Parliament Hill yesterday, to pay my last respects to Jack Layton. It was a very long, very slow line which stretched pretty much around the whole East…
What would Jack do? Layton’s hopeful mien should guide our response to Christie Blatchford’s column
Some of the throng that gathered at the Alberta Legislature Wednesday evening to honour and mourn the death of NDP Leader Jack Layton. Postmedia News columnist Christie Blatchford, in a…
Krusty Blatchford and the Farting Dog
Oh.My.Doggy. I was hoping not to have to write anything about the way Christie Blatchford crapped on Jack Layton's memory, the day after he died.Because as he so sadly showed…
Late night
(Source)The spontaneous celebration of Layton in chalk out in front of Toronto City Hall has most likely been washed away tonight with the major rainstorm that blew through the city.…
Jack’s passing seems to have sparked a new competition
I'm reminded at times of that aphorism (can't remember whether it was Mark Twain or Winston Churchill) about a lie getting halfway around the world while the truth is still…
A Dozen Oranges for Jack: In Memoriam from City Hall
“Jack was the reason I started voting.” - Message written in chalk on Nathan Phillips Square wall Much has been said about NDP Opposition Leader Jack Layton over the past…
A Dozen Oranges for Jack: In Memoriam from City Hall
“Jack was the reason I started voting.” – Message written in chalk on Nathan Phillips Square wall Much has been said about NDP Opposition Leader Jack Layton over the past…
A Dozen Oranges for Jack: In Memoriam from City Hall
“Jack was the reason I started voting.” - Message written in chalk on Nathan Phillips Square wall Much has been said about NDP Opposition Leader Jack Layton over the past…
A Dozen Oranges for Jack: In Memoriam from City Hall
“Jack was the reason I started voting.” – Message written in chalk on Nathan Phillips Square wall Much has been said about NDP Opposition Leader Jack Layton over the past…
These Pictures Tell A Real Story
Taken at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, these photos depict many of the tributes that have been written in chalk honouring the memory of Jack Layton.Recommend this Post
On that Blatchford column
There has been lots of ink, tweets and blogposts written and spilled over Christie Blatchford’s rather controversial National Post column about the public and media reaction to Jack Layton’s death…