One good reason to vote NDP in 2015
Perhaps Leonard Cohen has something to say to those Canadians who look with dismay upon our broken, undemocratic, first past the post electoral system, and wonder that a man who…
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Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Martin Papillon offers up some lessons for the NDP in Francois Hollande’s French presidential victory: Being ideological does not have to mean being…
Fear And Loathing From The Right
The other day I wrote a brief post linking to a site developed by the Conservative party that seeks to sow fear about Thomas Mulcair’s ‘shadow’ cabinet. That campaign of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Linda McQuaig is hopeful that Quebec’s student protests against tuition hikes might remind many Canadians that we can do more than just…
Brad Wall: Oil Sands is a great stuff
Thomas Mulcair of NDP calls oil sands Dutch disease. Premier of Saskatchewan Brad Wall is very upset. His interview with Evan Solomon of CBC:
can thomas muclair’s ndp win in western canada?
Thomas Mulcair Federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair talked his way into inevitable criticism of the oil sands this past weekend. Speaking on CBC Radio’s The House, Mr. Mulcair suggested that…
See Stephen, See Stephen Run
While the purpose of this Harper-initiated site may be to inspire fear of the NDP under Thomas Mulcair, I think it suggests a measure of, shall we say, nervousness, on…
Stephen Harper’s Big Majority Party
It's been one year since Stephen Harper stole an election and finally got his majority. And you should have seen him at his Great Majority Party today, wearing a silly…
Happy Anniversary!
One year ago today, Stephen Harper turned an “unwanted election” into his first majority government, Jack Layton and the NDP soared to never before seen heights, and Liberals spent the…
Happy Anniversary!
One year ago today, Stephen Harper turned an “unwanted election” into his first majority government, Jack Layton and the NDP soared to never before seen heights, and Liberals spent the…
In Praise of NDP PR Jiu-Jitsu
Paul Wells on how it’s best sometimes to simply shut up and let your opponent’s own negative momentum take them down: Harper is certain to keep portraying the NDP as…
“Untrustworthy Tories, socialist NDP, bumbling Grits: Poll puts a pox on all”
An interesting headline in the Globe and Mail. I tend to agree with the poll results. All three parties need a new leader that people can trust. Read the story…
Never mind the CCF! Perfesser Dave shows how the shadow of Stalin looms over the Harper Conservatives!
Gerda Munsinger: More proof if it were needed it that the Harper government secretly loves the Soviets. Below: Perfesser Dave; Pierre “Woody” Sévigny; the Avro Arrow, which we could have…
I Am Not Afraid of an Abortion Debate
If we, as Canadians, believe a woman ought to have the right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy, why are we so afraid of having our views challenged? Why…
Tom Mulcair And NDP In The Lead, Confidence In Harper Plummets
Two polls were released today: Forum (April 25 – sample of 1744), and Nanos (April 18 – sample of 1200). The Forum poll, having a much larger sample, is the…
Friday Morning Links
This and that to end your week. – Paul Wells comments on the NDP’s new style of opposition: When I used to ask the Liberals, when they were the Official…
NDP Liberal Merger Odds Now 0
The poll done by Toronto-based Forum Research Inc. this week shows the NDP was the choice of 36 per cent of decided and leaning respondents, with the Conservatives close behind…
The Metamorphosis of Thomas Mulcair
Mulcair is riding high wide and handsome in Quebec, with even arch enemies now thinking he is the best PM of the choices open right now, according to threehundredandeight’s analysis…
Whip It Good
Stephen Woodworth’s person-hood motion will not be defeated by Bob Rae’s whipping or not whipping his caucus against the measure. It will be defeated because Stephen Harper needs it to…
#HarperHistory: Canadians Respond to Stephen Harper’s NDP ‘Hitler’ comment
In Parliament yesterday, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair asked PM Stephen Harper whether or nor Canadian special forces would stay in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 withdrawal deadline. Harper’s answer: “The leader…