NDP leader Jagmeet Singh celebrates getting elected

NDP Celebrates a Setback

Before the by-elections on February 26, the NDP had held two of the three seats being contested. By the end of the night they only had one seat — yet they were celebrating. This is a worrying sign of how low the party’s sights are set. The NDP are celebrating that their leader, Jagmeet Singh, […]

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Ford Wins in Ontario

The hopes of the NDP pulling off a surprise victory didn’t materialize and Ontario workers are now faced with the prospect of the most right-wing government since the days of Mike Harris in the 1990s. Does this victory of a right-wing  populist signify that Ontario (and, by implication, Canada as a whole – given Ontario’s […]

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Ontario Crossroads Election

Ontario’s June 7 election has heated up, not only because of the participation of Doug Ford, the so-called Canadian Donald Trump and apparent front runner, but because the outcome of the election itself is by no means certain. Since the New Year, Ontario politics have been anything but dull. At the start of 2018, it […]

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