James Morton for Vice President (English), Liberal Party of Canada
One thing I’m struck by as I look at the candidates for board positions within the Liberal Party of Canada, is the number of candidates that are advocating for a…
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36 proposed Liberal constitutional amendments dissected and explained
Happy New Year to all; I hope you enjoyed the holidays. EspeciallyChristmas. I won’t say I’m resolving toblog more this year but I will try, and I’m sure I definitely…
Mike Crawley for President, Liberal Party of Canada
I had an opportunity to meet with Mike Crawley at a recent Edward Blake Society event in Toronto. Mike was engaging and determined to hear my opinion. That was before…
Liberal Convention Must Be Open to Bloggers
Well, I tweeted it and I posted it to Facebook, I just wonder if I had another means to make this statement … The Liberal Party of Canada must determine…
Liberal Party is foolishly retreating from social media and blogging
I was disappointed to learn several weeks ago that the Liberal Party of Canada is retreating from its position as one of the early leaders in Canada in recognizing the…
Fascism, a Liberal Party Legacy. . .
There is no question that the Harper government is a de facto fascist organization. I refer you to this excellent outline of what constitutes fascism in case you are so…
For the record… #nlpoli
Liberal leader Dwight Ball’s remarks on taking on the leadership: The Liberal Party has a rich history in Newfoundland and Labrador and I’m proud to be a part of it.…
Ball takes over as Liberal leader #nlpoli
The first sign of substantive and positive change in quite a while: Dwight Ball takes the job of leading the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. The fact he is…
The Crowd in the Dark #nlpoli
Dwight Ball will become the new leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador this week. Expect an announcement on Thursday. There’ll be no “interim” about it. Ball is…
The problem with the Liberal Party #nlpoli
Guest post by Craig Westcott, from his editorial in this week’s Business Post. If, as its president Judy Morrow has proposed, the Liberal Party puts off holding a leadership convention…
Newman vs. Duffy, and a room full of zombies, on the Liberal Party of Canada
Last weekend I watched season 14 of South Park, and in a run of super hero episodes they introduced a character called Captain Hindsight. Basically, he flies in at a…
Liberal Party of Canada Values – A Comparison
Liberals will meet in Ottawa in January to debate the values underpinning the Party. So far, there are two documents which Liberal attendees can review to decide this question: the…
Meeting the LPC presidential candidates, and why I like Mike
The Edward Blake Society, a group of Toronto-area no longer young except at heart Liberal professionals, hosted four of the five candidates for the Liberal Party of Canada presidency on…
More of the same #nlpoli
The whole thing is easy to figure out if you just look at it. October 13, 2011: Tuesday night proved to be a “holy f***, that was close” moment for…
Why 338 constituencies? Why not 150? Or 100?
The Liberals have suggested an approach to achieving fairer regional representation in the House of Commons, and they should be listened to. Their solution is certainly better than that of…
A chance. A choice. #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Original idea comparing a Canadian political party to a hockey team, but Andrew Coyne’s metaphor for the problems confronting the federal Liberal Party works. The Liberals think of themselves like…
Democracy is too expensive is a poor argument
There are lots of good arguments you can make that just adding more and more seats to the House of Commons to address shifting populations is a bad idea. For…
Free advice #nlpoli
Free advice, they say, is worth exactly what you paid for it. And when it comes to free advice on the provincial Liberal Party leadership, Dean MacDonald is more full…
Liberal Roadmap for Victory – lipservice to real member and supporter involvement
Just spent some time reading through the accompany (non-official) document released with the Roadmap, and came across some really jarring notes.They have really taken the gloss off the Roadmap for…
Why Sheila Copps nearly made me scream at work
I should really turn off Twitter when I'm on the phone at work, because when I scanned my feed during a down moment in a conference call this afternoon and…