Accidental Deliberations

A collection of writings on the leadership campaign that elected Avi Lewis (including a few predating his election). - Isaac Phan Nay report...

Like 2,000+ other members across the country, I've been participating in the NDP's convention over the course of the weekend. And wi...

While most discussion around the NDP's leadership campaign has revolved around the ebb and flow of news cycles, it's always worth a ...

The latest from the federal NDP's leadership campaign. - Alex Ballingall reports on Guy Caron's infrastructure and jobs plan whi...

Following up on yesterday's column , I'll expand somewhat on some of the decisions the NDP may want to consider as (or before) it el...

One could hardly design a more stark contrast between the complex realities of politics and the media's tendency to portray them in appa...

Here , with my take on the factors NDP members should take into account in evaluating Tom Mulcair's leadership. For further reading......

I've posted before about the NDP's strong progressive stance since the October election - which looks to be a positive move in ter...

I'll weigh in quickly on the controversy surrounding Jean-Francois Delisle - and start by noting that his comments yesterday reflected ...

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - David Climenhaga sees Jeremy Corbyn's resounding victory in the Labour leadership race as c...

Here , pointing out that if the Harper Cons have little idea what they're doing in Canada's federal election, it isn't for lack ...

Leaving aside whether Stephen Harper's previously-undisclosed media monitoring is actually right in substance, Brian Jean isn't enti...

I'll close off my discussion of the NDP's leadership campaign with another lessons learned post - this one from the standpoint of t...

Dan Tan offers another guest post - this one responding to a bit of misplaced advice from Embassy with a helpful reminder as to how policy i...

In this year's federal election, the NDP took 32% of the vote in Saskatchewan - but didn't win a single seat as other parties droppe...

As promised , let's take a quick look through the NDP's official leadership rules . On the whole, the regulations don't look to ...

At least a few Canadian commentators have looked to Australia's process for selecting party leaders - with the party caucus rather than ...

Let's close this blog's discussion of #vancon2011 with one last post, this time dealing with the NDP's constitutional preamble -...

Let's take a look at a couple of final issues from #vancon2011, starting with the series of machinations around resolutions ruling out m...

August 2009: The NDP's federal convention in Halifax votes to have the party's executive draft a new preamble to the NDP's cons...