After Jack: Three Bad Ideas & One Good One For The NDP
The weeklong outpouring of mourning, love and solidarity after the passing of NDP Leader Jack Layton has now subsided. The sense of optimism that Jack insisted upon and the hunger…
Liberal Party
There can be no shortcuts for the Liberal Party
The Liberal Party of Canada's summer caucus meetings begin today in Ottawa, and I've already heard some rumblings and musings from those quarters that give me pause, and cause for…
Jack Layton: Our Politics are Poorer for the Loss
The unthinkable happened twice this year for the federal New Democrats: their charismatic leader Jack Layton took them as close to the Holy Grail of Canadian politics as you can…
The lifeblood of parties
What a great blog post at digby's tonight. The post was about intra-party critics and their usefulness, in light of much of the Democratic generated criticism of Obama of late.…
Double Standards And Chauvinism In The Nycole Turmel Affair
For over a week now, politicians, the media and pundits have relentlessly sniped interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel for her past association with the Bloc Quebecois. To them, it’s not…
We need generational change in the Liberal Party
There have been a few articles recently about the emerging race for the presidency of the Liberal Party of Canada. A number of interesting names have emerged, from party veterans…
Martha Hall Findlay for Liberal President
Martha Hall FindlayI wish to go on record that I would support Martha Hall Findlay for Liberal Party president, should she run / be drafted / be persuaded to run.Findlay…
Are the NDP too dependent on Jack Layton?
I’ll be brief this time, because I know every pundit and their brother will be covering this story and making this speculation. But it’s worth asking – are the NDP…
Out on a Limb: In Defence of the (Political) Moral High Ground
This may be terribly naive of me (and I’m not ruling out that possibility, to be fair), but I am going to go out on a limb and make the…
Liberals will never be lonely
Not when Conservatives keep writing nitpicky, protests-too-much columns like this. Beardsley is probably right about the summer travelling being about staying in the media eye. Why not? It is important…
Liberalbook
That's what it looks like to me and it's a needed evolution. There are lots of discussions out there on the future of the party in niches yet this central…
Liberals, we must commit to using this time for rebuilding
Well over 2000 Liberals spent a few hours Saturday afternoon taking part in an extraordinary convention via teleconference to make a few decisions about the path forward for our party.…
Root and branch rebuilding: One tool we can use
Liberals have just had a successful teleconferencing convention that 2,700 members of the party subscribed to, and 2,100 members voted to extend the date a permanent leader is to be…
Weekend thoughts
The Liberal delegates have (unfortunately in my view) voted to extend the wait back to 2013 before choosing a new Liberal leader. I’ve already gone over my objection to that,…
Liberal Extraordinary Convention: Leadership in 2013
Just a quick post here on the results of this afternoon's convention which went off without a hitch and with much collegiality on Twitter. The date for selection of the…
Liberal Extraordinary Convention tomorrow
The details surrounding the Liberal Extraordinary Convention are online. The event is going to be fully open to the public with a live audio stream along with a livechat as…
I support the middle path timeline subamendment for the Liberal Party Leadership Vote
I’m away visiting my folks for the weekend (for Father’s Day, the immediate family is getting together), but I decided to interrupt my sojourn and get on here just to…
Liberals: Let’s not wait until 2013 to pick our leader
I've been informed that my sub-amendment on leadership timing has been accepted and will be debated during the Liberal extraordinary convention tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who pledged their support to…
Liberals: I need your help changing the leadership selection timeline
(UPDATED: See bottom of post)If you're a Liberal who was acclaimed as a delegate to the upcoming extraordinary convention to change/set the timing for the next leadership race and you're…
TEXT: Alfred Apps On A Primary System For Selecting The Next Liberal Leader
The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Liberal Party President Alfred Apps at The Empire Club of Canada last week.In his speech, Mr. Apps calls on the…