Hot Or Not: January 18th NDP Leadership Debate Edition
Hot: Beards: The hottest accessory at the Tom Mulcair after-party was a beard. If you are showing solidarity with your leadership or simply waiting in the forest for the revolution…
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Toronto NDP Federal Leadership Debate Reactions
I attended the Toronto Area Council NDP Federal Leadership Debate. What follows is a range of reactions about the candidates, policies, and themes in this debate. Crowd: The crowd packed…
1 month left to register #ndpldr
There’s less than one month left until the deadline to register as a member of the NDP so that you can vote for the next leader of the NDP and…
On constructive alternatives
Yes, plenty of key websites will be going dark today – and for good reason based on the U.S. legislation being protested. But today also marks one month from the…
Liberal voting reform endorsement reduces chances of NDP-Liberal merger
The question of a Liberal-NDP merger was something that was discussed quite openly following Harper’s ascent to a majority. Such poltical heavyweights as Jean Chretien even weighed in on the…
Repetition for effect
Since Aaron Wherry has rightly connected the NDP’s response to Lise St-Denis’ floor-crossing to its efforts to engage constituents on other issues, I may as well offer a similar bit…
Leadership 2012 Roundup
No, I won’t claim to have entirely comprehensive coverage of the NDP’s leadership race. But I do try to catch the developments that strike me as significant for each candidate…
Thomas Mulcair: He didn’t choose France for you
Thomas Mulcair is French by choice. It’s not terribly difficult to predict the sort of response that a political attack machine could run with this untimely revelation. We’ve seen it…
Even when they do things in Quebec, the NDP starting point is denial
First answer: This is not our way of doing things so I would be extremely surprised if it came from us – Guy Caron, NDP MP and Quebec caucus chairSecond…
On new challenges
Every so often, it seems to be necessary to remind the pundit class that there isn’t a reset button that will magically restore Canadian politics to where they were three…
Youth ostracism in Canadian politics
Elections in recent history have told the same story again and again: Young people aren’t voting. Sure, some of us are. Many others are attempting to bring in more of…
Parliament in Review: November 17, 2011
Thursday, November 17 saw a Liberal opposition day turned into a discussion about the sad state of water supplies to Canada’s First Nations. But while all parties were able to…
Petition to End Discriminatory Convention Registration Process
As many of you are now aware the party has banned youth and unwaged delegates from registering for convention online. If you weren’t already aware check out my previous post…
Leadership 2012 Candidate Rankings – January 15, 2012
At the outset of this week’s rankings, I’ll offer a reminder that the below is intended to reflect my analysis as to how likely any given candidate is to win…
NDP Adopts Discriminatory Convention Registration Process
Over the Christmas break I noticed something quite odd on the registration page for the upcoming NDP leadership convention, the option for youth and unwaged delegates to register online was…
Peggy Nash unveils plan to make Canada a global leader in innovation.
Peggy Nash, my choice for leader of the New Democratic party, released her place to return Canada to the head of the pack as a global leader in innovation. Filed…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Carol Goar criticizes the tax giveaways that have blown a massive hole in the federal budget: But there is one area of government…
With St-Denis, NDP Can’t Move On, Only Down
NDP MP Lise St-Denis turned Liberal, and just as her former party capitalized on Jack Layton, so is her new party. The recently elected Quebec MP Lise St-Denis left the…
The NDP Defector and the Headwinds of Change
I notice that some of the trees in Toronto have started sprouting buds, fooled by the unusually warm weather into thinking that Spring has arrived in January. And no doubt…