At Broadbent’s Progress Summit, a desire for more populism on the political left emerges
The political right is tapping into voters’ anger, and the political left should not shy away from harnessing it, too, a Bernie Sanders adviser, Faiz Shakir, told a group of labour leaders and progressives at the Broadbent Institute’s Progress Summit on March 9.
Fisheries Minister Murray promotes new parliamentary affairs director
Plus, former NDP director of communications Mélanie Richer is now a senior consultant for strategic communications with Earnscliffe Strategies.
Singh needs a few sparks
Sometimes it just takes a few sparks to get a political bandwagon moving.
Opposition parties need to up their foreign policy game
Opposition parties get stuck in the frame of personal attacks and reactionary scapegoating, rather than providing alternatives for hard policy questions.
Singh should stop raising spectre of health-care boogeyman
Canadians want politicians to pursue real solutions, not take things off the table simply because there is some political opportunity in posturing on a fairy tale.
Prime Minister Singh? Don’t laugh
In a recent Ipsos survey, pollster Darrell Bricker found that 54 per cent of respondents wanted Justin Trudeau to step down in 2023. The same poll found that 59 per cent had an unfavourable view of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. This is not a ringing endorsement of either of the two traditional parties that have ruled the roost in Canada since Confederation. In the same poll, Jagmeet Singh scored the highest approval rating of any federal leader at 53 per cent.
It’s better for Singh to be Singh
To be successful, a politician has to be real. That’s to say if a politician tries to be something he or she isn’t, it often comes across as inauthentic.
Trudeau’s Hamilton cabinet meeting sounds like a campaign rollout
The Liberal cabinet’s decision to meet in Hamilton is not about tourism. It is about politics. If the party is to retain its position in government, or secure a majority, it needs grow its base in areas like Hamilton and Windsor.
Conservatives dismiss criticism of Poilievre’s $1,700 fundraising dinners as ‘gimmicky politics’ from ‘financially strained’ NDP
The more expensive ‘outlier’ fundraisers are part of Pierre Poilievre’s responsibility to raise funds for his party ahead of the next election from a ‘broad range’ of Conservative contributors, says strategist Yaroslav Baran.
Notley’s policy gambit
Anyone who’s expecting the Alberta election to be a battle of policy platforms will be sorely disappointed.
