New Democratic Party of Canada
NDP Membership numbers – comparison
The NDP just released their membership number totals prior to the upcoming vote for NDP leader. The number just released is: 128,351 For comparison, let’s look…
NDP
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Liberal Party of Canada
Olivia Chow interview at #lpc12
Olivia Chow was at the 2012 Liberal biennial convention in Ottawa. I asked her about her impressions on the last day of the convention, what the Liberals did…
News making
Advanced Leadership Program Followup
A few news stories have been written about the Advanced Leadership Program exposed yesterday. National Post Postmedia Papers QMI Papers Huffington Post Of…
CBC
CBC fights the culture war
What’s this? A CBC story about huge guns, a baby, and Santa? From Scottsdale Arizona? What is the relevance? Oh, those Americans and their guns. “Is it…
New Democratic Party of Canada
Vacated prime real estate in Ottawa!
Paulina Ayala is the NDP Member of Parliament for Honoré-Mercier in Quebec. She was elected on May 2nd in the Orange Crush that saw the NDP take most of the…
New Democratic Party of Canada
Nycole Turmel’s Bloc connections
Nycole Turmel is the newly minted interim leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. She has stepped in while Jack Layton fights another round with cancer.…
Columns
Postal filibuster was a practice round
First Air Canada then Canada Post. What does the future hold in showdowns of Conservatives versus the union-backed New Democratic Party? I noted a couple of…
Columns
Thoughts on the NDP filibuster
The NDP filibuster over bill C-6 is over and it ended with more of a whimper than a bang. With 102 MPs allowed to speak for 20 minutes (not including about 10…
Canadian Politics
Bad move Christy Clark
Trading a sales tax cut for a corporate tax increase? This is bad tax policy from the Premier of BC. The HST has been a thorny and populist issue. The NDP is…