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Former Obama adviser tells NDP to build strong ground game, meaningful relationships with voters, and Moneyball-style analytics to win election
Traditional campaigns treat voters like political consumers, but in the 21st century, political parties need to use all means possible to engage voters as citizens in a ‘meaningful way,’ says Jeremy Bird.
NDP needs to ‘dramatically’ expand party's digital campaigning efforts, focus on fundraising in ‘big way,’ say party officials
The NDP policy convention in Montreal this weekend includes campaign training and election preparations, but some delegates say more time is needed for actual policy talk.
NDP MPs embrace Stiglitz’s message to share prosperity, want to run on it in next federal election
Nobel-Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told NDP delegates that inequality is inherently unstable for Canadian society, and that shared prosperity is needed in the country. It’s something that New Democrats are embracing heading into the 2015 federal election.
Liberals say more than 60 per cent have cast votes for next leader, so far
The Liberals will release a complete rundown of votes cast for each Liberal leadership candidate, in each of the 308 federal electoral districts, once the winner of the party’s ground-breaking online vote is announced on Sunday.
Liberals say 42 per cent have voted for next leader, five days to go, e-voting got off to a shaky start
An increase in Quebec voting in the week-long federal Liberal Party online leadership election has boosted the overall turnout significantly over the day to 42 per cent of more than 127,000 registered voters, with five days of voting to remain.
Liberals receive more than 1,000 calls from members, supporters who couldn't vote online
Liberal Party beefing up telephone help lines to cope with a flood of calls from people having trouble voting in leadership campaign.
Liberal leadership ‘minivention’ draws wanted media attention, buzz, but awakens Grits for challenges ahead
The event was primarily designed as a media phenomenon to substitute for the drama and hoopla that would have accompanied a traditional convention of delegates rather than a party-wide vote over seven days. It also highlighted the enormous challenges ahead for the party.
Meet the top campaign players behind the federal Grit leadership candidates
The Trudeau brain trust is drawn from the party’s new guard, Liberal insiders who worked as staffers and campaigners soon after graduating from university in the 1990s.
Trudeau raises another $43,000 for war chest, Hall Findlay announces support from five senior Liberals
Liberal Leadership candidate Justin Trudeau gained another 949 contributors over the week’s reporting period. His campaign war chest, two days before voting begins, is $1,078,866, after a 10 per cent cut to the party that all candidates have been submitting to pay for the contest debates, events and cost of the election.
Trudeau’s $1-million campaign machine formidable as Liberals, ‘supporters’ prepare to begin voting this weekend
With roughly 127,000 eligible voters, a mix of about 37,500 card-carrying Liberal Party members who have registered to vote and roughly 89,500 in the new Liberal Party supporter category, the setup means getting out the vote, with the kind of cross-country organization only Justin Trudeau has, will be as crucial as it is in a general election.
Trudeau first ballot victory not guaranteed, says Liberal leadership candidate Cauchon
'If Trudeau doesn’t, and I believe Trudeau doesn’t make it on the first ballot, then the second choice will kick in. It will be a surprise box,' says former Justice minister Martin Cauchon.
Liberal MPs criticize Hall Findlay’s lengthy attack on Murray’s cooperation proposal
Liberal MPs on Tuesday criticized Liberal leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay for a lengthy attack against MP and leadership contender Joyce Murray’s central campaign plank calling for electoral cooperation among the opposition parties to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives in the next federal election.
Trudeau clear front-runner in Liberal leadership campaign, but Murray’s got momentum
The $1-million that Liberal leadership candidate Justin Trudeau has raised for his campaign since last October and a formidable list of establishment Liberals whose names are sprinkled through his list of more than 7,000 donors have not intimidated challenger and Liberal MP Joyce Murray, the only other candidate to show momentum since December.
Cabinet ministers fan out across Canada to sell Flaherty’s budget
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s top Cabinet ministers, including heavyweight political ministers for the provinces and major cities, were fanning out Thursday night and Friday to begin selling the federal budget before the opposition parties had a chance to leave the starting gate.
Grit Party president Crawley says he has ‘full confidence’ in integrity of Lib leadership voters’ list
Liberal Party President Mike Crawley says he has ‘full confidence’ in the integrity of the voter list being established for the party’s leadership election, in the face of complaints from one of the candidate campaigns about irregularities.
Irregularities in Liberal leadership voter registrations being challenged by scrutineers
Irregularities in voter registrations for the Liberal Party leadership election are being challenged ‘big time’ as scrutineers for the seven remaining candidates are poring through the qualifications of tens of thousands of potential voters, says an official with one of the leadership campaigns.
It ain’t over till it’s over, Trudeau hasn’t won Liberal leadership yet, say Murray and Hall Findlay
Two Liberal leadership candidates whose profiles have grown significantly over the past week are challenging the media and punditry wisdom that Montreal MP Justin Trudeau has sealed a victory with four weeks remaining in the contest, and citing the Trudeau campaign’s last-minute appeal for an extension of the deadline for voter registration as evidence.
Garneau’s campaign admits phone survey didn’t comply with CRTC rules on political polling
Former Liberal leadership contender Marc Garneau’s campaign has admitted a contentious robocall telephone survey it conducted last week did not comply with federal caller identification rules for political polling.
U.S. Congressional watchdog says delays in F-35s could put costs of fighter jets out of reach
A U.S. Congressional watchdog monitoring the F-35 stealth fighter jet program is warning that persistent testing and development delays could take the sophisticated war plane’s price tag out of the reach of the U.S. military and partner countries, including Canada, that are backing the trouble-plagued project.
Most, including Quebecers, say Quebec should require well over 50 per cent to separate: Forum Research poll
Most Canadians, including a majority in Quebec, believe the province’s separation from Canada would require well over 50 per cent of the vote in a referendum on Quebec independence, a Forum Research survey has found.
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