NDP identity crisis calls for a return to party’s roots
In losing official status, the NDP faces a hard test: does it remain tied to power politics or return to its social democratic origins?
Parliament is back: will it be like the last one?
The changes on the front benches provide a window of opportunity to set a more constructive and healthy culture as Parliament reconvenes. Here’s hoping.
NDP needs to build an Orange Wave in the West
The party has been too focused on winning support in Quebec when it should focus on traditional strongholds in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
‘Rock bottom’: former MPs reflect on election losses, and navigating ‘purgatory’ as they transition to life out of office
Two weeks after the election, at least 40 outgoing incumbent MPs are in the process of packing up their offices and saying goodbye to staff and colleagues, after years—or even decades—in office.
The 58 tightest races in Canada, won by five per cent margins or less
The first- and second-place finishers in 58 ridings were separated by margins of under five per cent of the votes between them, based on Elections Canada data on May 6.
Liberals boost vote share in Saskatchewan, B.C.’s Lower Mainland, while Conservatives muscle in on GTA, southwestern Ontario
More than half of the re-elected Liberal incumbents increased their margins of victory, mostly at the expense of the New Democrats.
Current, former NDP MPs reflect on ‘heartbreaking’ and ‘numbing’ loss, but say party is ‘laser focused’ on rebuilding
As the sole NDP MP left representing the party’s historic stronghold on Vancouver Island, Gord Johns says the ‘devastating’ election results highlight the impact of strategic voting.
New Democrats have a bumpy, but worthwhile, road ahead
If the NDP is going to move forward in a constructive way and play its necessary role in Parliament, part of the process of post-election review and reflection must include clear lines of communication and everyone being on the same page.
Seat projections a ‘headache,’ but overall ‘good showing’ for polls in this election: pollsters
Ipsos pollster Darrell Bricker says if the pattern created in this election were to persist, Canada could be moving to ‘a two-party political system in which progressives are going to be facing off against conservatives.’
Time for NDP ‘soul searching’ and ‘reconnecting’ with workers, say labour leaders after electoral collapse
‘Historically, when the NDP is weak, the Liberals tend to try to appeal to the more conservative side of their base,’ says Teamsters’ Mariam Abou-Dib, who is ‘concerned’ the shrunken NDP caucus will be bad for workers.
