Pride attendance may no longer be a litmus test for LGBTQ support, but absence still sends a message, say politicos
‘Pride is not necessarily welcoming to everyone anymore, and that’s the opposite of what it should be,’ says conservative commentator and transgender advocate Blaine Badiuk.
Will the withered NDP disappear? No, it will not
Despite its current malaise, the NDP is too thoroughly embedded in the fabric of Canada’s political culture to unravel completely.
Late report on 2024 finances ‘so outdated it’s useless,’ says Democracy Watch as most major parties ask for more time
The federal Conservative Party was one of only five registered parties to report its 2024 financial statement by the June 30 deadline, while the NDP and Liberal figures won’t be ready until the end of August.
Musk versus Goliath
Musk’s America Party lacks a regional base, it doesn’t represent a defined demographic group, and its ideology is vague.
But new parties in the United States can sometimes make electoral waves if they become political vehicles for charismatic and powerful people. The jury’s still out on Musk’s America Party.
The NDP leadership race: continuity, rupture, or reinvention?
As the party prepares for its March 2026 convention, the question isn’t who will lead but what purpose the NDP will serve in Canadian politics.
‘He’s using us’: independent byelection candidates say ‘frustration’ getting ‘louder’ over Poilievre parachuting into Alberta riding
Pierre Poilievre has chosen one of the safest Tory seats in the country to try to punch his ticket back to Parliament Hill, but his opponents say the Conservative leader is using their riding as a ‘political pawn’ and his win isn’t a sure thing.
As Ontario Liberal Leader Crombie faces review, Liberal MP Erskine-Smith opens door for ‘renewal’ in provincial leadership: email
Kingston Liberal MPP Ted Hsu says he supports Bonnie Crombie as the party leader, but would leave it up to party delegates to vote as they see fit at the Sept.12-14 annual general meeting.
Feds should appoint ‘eminent person’ to head Leaders’ Debates Commission, says Green Leader May
The independent body has been without a commissioner for two years and is on its final year of approved funding.
Will the NDP emulate New York City’s Mamdani?
Just because a ‘new American left’ might be surging in the U.S., that doesn’t mean it’ll also happen here in Canada.
Chants of ‘shame’ erupt at Conservative AGM in GTA after organizer ‘unfairly’ disqualifies a slate of 30 candidates
Multiple Conservative EDA members in Mississauga-Erin Mills, Ont., want the party’s national council to annul the results of the June 25 AGM after they say a regional organizer disqualified an entire slate of board of directors candidates on an unfounded technicality.
