NDP plays down recent polling numbers and focuses on key issues, key players
New Democrats will continue to focus on presenting themselves as the alternative to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s majority governing Conservatives this winter legislative session, says NDP House Leader Nathan Cullen, who is downplaying the hype surrounding the federal Liberal leadership race. The opposition House leader told The Hill Times that his party will continue […]
Conservatives selling out Canada’s future for short term economic gain in oil sands and other petroleum developments, say critics
Following a 40-page report showing Canada has fallen back on support for clean-energy technology development and two months before the Prime Minister’s advisory group on the environment is dismantled permanently, MPs and critics accuse the Conservatives of promoting and financing oil sands and other petroleum exploitation for short-term economic gain “at the expense of Canada’s […]
May slams Mulcair’s order to NDP MPs not to respond to her electoral cooperation letter
PARLIAMENT HILL—Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she questions how NDP MPs can “stomach” their party leader Thomas Mulcair’s edict forbidding them from taking her up on a proposal to begin discussing electoral alliances to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the next federal election and go on to reform Canada’s election system with […]
Feds clearly view the environment as just another game to be won
By now, the Conservative government’s utter aversion to protecting the environment is not news to anyone with access to radio, TV, paper, or telephone. The litany of deliberate and blithely ignorant actions the Conservatives have taken to advance their agenda reveals a sub-wiki understanding of the complexity of human reliance on an ecosystem that […]
Mulcair takes charge of any talks on electoral cooperation, orders NDP MPs not to respond to Green Leader May’s letter
PARLIAMENT HILL—NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has taken charge of public statements from his caucus over the possibility of electoral cooperation with other opposition parties in the next federal election and instructed New Democrat MPs not to respond to a letter Green Party Leader Elizabeth May sent to NDP and Liberal MPs last month broaching […]
NDP pitches Mulcair’s leader’s summit in fundraising letter for next election campaign
PARLIAMENT HILL—The NDP e-blasted a fundraising letter to party members and supporters Wednesday morning, pinning an appeal to begin building a war chest for the next federal election on the show of unity and publicity federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair generated at a summit he held with provincial NDP leaders on Parliament Hill Tuesday. […]
Mulcair ready to take on new Liberal leader on ‘substantive level’
PARLIAMENT HILL—NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair on Tuesday shrugged off recent polls suggesting the Liberals would vault past the official opposition in voter support should MP Justin Trudeau win the party’s leadership election next April and said he will take on whoever wins the Grit race on a “substantive level” rather than using quick-hit slogans or […]
NDP MP compares large-scale, organized attack on NDP leadership vote to robocalls scandal
PARLIAMENT HILL—Confirmation the NDP leadership election’s online voting over the weekend was attacked by an “organized and large-scale” computer subversion has prompted an NDP MP to compare the assault to the robocall subterfuge in last year’s federal election. The Canadian-division manager of the worldwide firm that hosted the online portion of the NDP election […]
New Democrats say Mulcair has broad party support, and to prepare for a nasty House Question Period
METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE—After four ballots, plagued and delayed by a mysterious cyber attack against the NDP’s sophisticated online vote site, and after some tears were shed on the shiny concrete floors of the Toronto Convention Centre from at least one of Brian Topp’s diehard supporters, relief finally washed over Thomas Mulcair’s fatigue-lined face […]
Desperate times, desperate measures
GATINEAU, QUE.—You might not like Thomas Mulcair, but you can sympathize with the dilemma that drove New Democrats to choose the controversial Quebecer as their new leader. On Monday, Mulcair will confront a ruthlessly effective and ideologically-determined Prime Minister who is about to release a budget that will accelerate growing economic inequality, weaken environmental […]
