Dewar building formidable campaign machine across country
PARLIAMENT HILL—As NDP leadership candidates Brian Topp and MP Thomas Mulcair have been grabbing headlines, NDP leadership candidate and MP Paul Dewar is building a formidable campaign machine across the country. A spokesman for Mr. Dewar’s (Ottawa Centre, Ont.) campaign says it polled thousands of party members before the holidays, established paid and unpaid […]
NDP leadership campaign more about race for endorsements than a battle of ideas
With the first of six leadership debates scheduled for Dec. 4, the NDP does not lack for contenders to fill the stage but the same cannot be said of material to debate. To date, the campaign has largely featured a race for endorsements rather than a battle of ideas. Winning by association rather than by […]
Six-month NDP leadership race ‘agonizing,’ making official opposition difficult, says Martin
PARLIAMENT HILL—The six-month NDP leadership race has started to take some wind out of the party’s sails in Parliament and is beginning to drain shadow cabinet and staff resources at a time when the party needs them most, says NDP MP Pat Martin. Reacting to recent Conservative attacks against interim NDP Leader Nycole Turmel (Hull-Aylmer, […]
Mulcair’s accusation that Topp is ‘beholden’ to unions ‘unhealthy’ and ‘not constructive’ in NDP leadership race, say MPs
PARLIAMENT HILL—Montreal MP Thomas Mulcair threw the NDP leadership race into an uproar Wednesday when he suggested prominent contender Brian Topp is “beholden” to big unions and depicted himself as the little guy ready to stand up to union pressure in the party. The same day it was disclosed NDP MP Peggy Nash, a longtime executive with […]
NDP MP Nash set to announce her leadership bid in Toronto Friday
PARLIAMENT HILL—The NDP leadership race is heating up. NDP MP Peggy Nash will become the seventh candidate and first woman to enter the NDP leadership race this week, with an announcement scheduled early Friday morning in her Toronto riding of Parkdale-High Park, Ont.. Ms. Nash, who resigned as president of the NDP shortly after winning […]
Dewar, Cullen and Topp trotting out specific campaign planks to set themselves apart from other NDP leadership candidates
OTTAWA—As at least two NDP MPs, possibly three, are on the sidelines weighing a run at the party leadership, contenders in the field are rounding out their ground campaigns, attracting endorsements and, in the case of Paul Dewar, Nathan Cullen and Brian Topp, trotting out specific campaign planks that set them apart. Mr. Dewar (Ottawa Centre, […]
Cullen’s pitch to join other parties’ forces against Tories in next election ‘separates him from the rest of the pack,’ says Martin
PARLIAMENT HILL—NDP MP Nathan Cullen’s leadership campaign proposal to mount a united challenge with Liberals and Greens to defeat Conservative incumbents in the next election has startled the Conservative Party, sparked backroom debate among Liberals and led one of the most outspoken New Democrats to sharply criticize two leading leadership contenders for their out-of-hand […]
Nash poised to announce candidacy for NDP leadership
PARLIAMENT HILL—The first substantial debate in the NDP leadership race—over potential cooperation with the Liberal Party in the next federal election—is falling on deaf ears. Liberal MPs told The Hill Times on Wednesday they’re not interested in the idea, and furthermore not even listening to the NDP campaign chatter, most recently ignited by candidate and […]
NDP leadership hopeful Dewar’s social media campaign compared to Obama’s 2008 bid
OTTAWA—The NDP leadership race changed gear Tuesday as candidate MP Paul Dewar’s substantial Facebook and Twitter lead over establishment candidate Brian Topp drew comparisons to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and MP candidate Nathan Cullen put the first “meat and potatoes” proposal on the table—a plan to mount only one opposition candidate against Conservative incumbents […]
Who Supports Whom in NDP Leadership Race
NDP leadership candidates: NDP MP Niki Ashton (Churchill, Man.) NDP MP Nathan Cullen (Skeena-Bulkley Valley, B.C.) NDP MP Paul Dewar (Ottawa Centre, Ont.) NDP MP Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, Que.) NDP MP Peggy Nash (Parkdale-High Park, Ont.) Businessman Martin Singh Former NDP president Brian Topp NDP MP Niki Ashton (Churchill, Man.) Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation […]
