“In the chaos that is headed our way, more voters may be willing to give the NDP a look than is presently accounted for.” Prominent conservative commentator, Andrew Coyne, wrote this after Avi Lewis clearly won the NDP leadership. Coyne has a better understanding of the turmoil ahead than many NDP bureaucrats. For now, Carney […]
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Avi Lewis handily won the NDP leadership race with 39,734 votes, 56% of the total, on the first ballot. His program is clearly popular with NDP members. His campaign raised more money, $1.23 million, than the other four candidates combined, and with an average donation of $105, smaller than Ashton’s average of $149, McPherson’s $133 […]
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The outcome of the NDP leadership race may determine whether the party remains relevant in federal politics. In the 2025 election the NDP only won 7 seats, the worst in its history. Since the federal NDP won 103 seats in the 2011 election, aided by a collapse in both Liberal and Bloc Québécois votes, it […]
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Nine days after the polls closed on Saturday, October 19, the outcome of BC’s election is becoming clearer. The BC Conservatives, which only four years ago got less than two percent of the vote and elected no one, with many candidates who had outlandish and bizarre views, nearly won. They were running against the NDP […]
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“It’s time for a change in this country, my friends – a real change.” A beaming Justin Trudeau spoke these words on the October 2015 evening when his Liberal Party won a crushing victory over the worn-out Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and the hapless Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats. These are also approximately the words that are […]
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BC United has folded its election campaign in support of the BC Conservatives. The October election is going to be tight. Kevin Falcon, BC United’s leader, after months of accurately criticizing the reactionary and sometimes weird ideas of the Conservatives and their leader John Rustad, suddenly announced his party was supporting them. The decision was […]
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The conservative Saskatchewan Party is heading to its fifth election victory, even after 17 years of misrule. The Sask Party led by Brad Wall, “the demon barber of the prairies,” defeated the NDP in 2007. Over the years the government has carried out a fairly standard conservative austerity agenda of low corporate taxes, resistance to […]
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One year ago, after the defeat of the NDP in the Alberta general election, Socialist Alternative warned about the Alberta NDP’s fatal strategy of trying to appeal to conservatives or “to be a party for all Albertans.” This strategy failed in the 2023 general election and Danielle Smith, despite her controversial policies, became the premier. […]
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It has been a long wait for public dental care and pharmacare. The Dental Benefit Act was passed in November 2022 and the Canada Pharmacare Act was introduced in February 2024. Unfortunately, both fall far short of what is needed “to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers,” the promise of […]
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Ed Broadbent, leader of the federal NDP from 1975 to 1989, is often described as the “best prime minister Canada never had.” Maybe that’s an example of being damned with faint praise. It is certainly not aiming at a high bar, given many of the country’s Prime Ministers. Despite that, Broadbent undoubtedly made a strong […]
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