Death of a party
The hearty partisans don’t like one another. The ground troops work against each other. The voters believe that the parties are different. But the leadership, i.e. those in the know,…
Liberals
The Myth of the Conscious Political Party
Two links to the growing discussion about suggestions that the Liberals and NDP form some kind of coalition to win the next federal election. First, the Globe. Scott Reid asks…
Greens, NDP to merge; Layton and May step aside, with support of key Liberal defectors
Could you just imagine a headline like that? Only if you accept the fact that the federal Liberal party is finished as a viable political entity. It was this particular…
Blame Management
10 months, 3 chiefs of staff. Michael Ignatieff is following the Mo Johnston play book. Mo helms Toronto FC in the MLS. Off the field, by all accounts they are…
On the Liberal void
Operating on the assumption that anything can be defined by generalizations, and media sources, in particular, can be pegged by partisan politics, over the past year I have viewed the…
Opening the Doors OR Circling the Wagons?
Who hasn’t heard of One Member One Vote? Then there’s the amendment put forward by the Young Liberal Commission.Jim Curran has started a forum topic at En Famille to discuss…
Opening the Doors OR Circling the Wagons?
Who hasn't heard of One Member One Vote? Then there's the amendment put forward by the Young Liberal Commission.Jim Curran has started a forum topic at En Famille to discuss…
Opening the Doors OR Circling the Wagons?
Who hasn't heard of One Member One Vote? Then there's the amendment put forward by the Young Liberal Commission.Jim Curran has started a forum topic at En Famille to discuss…
Opening the Doors OR Circling the Wagons?
Who hasn’t heard of One Member One Vote? Then there’s the amendment put forward by the Young Liberal Commission.Jim Curran has started a forum topic at En Famille to discuss…