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To be clear, this isn’t an attack on the guy, its an acknowledgement that the Federal NDP has finally done what activists (inside and outside the party) have called for – going further left. This follows a similar logic that conservative parties have followed in the past; dismissing critics’ claim that [party] was too extreme, they begin to argue that they weren’t hard line enough. So they seek…

To begin with, I will stress that I am not, nor have I ever been a Liberal Party supporter, donor, voter, member and will not be doing so for the foreseeable future. Philosophically, I’m just not on board with neoliberal economics and what they do to working class people – not just here in Canada, but every country where its a foundational economic plan. That being said. We are in the most…

Its not a great look when a so-called green-light committee blocks an aspiring candidate from seeking a nomination or in this case, seeking leadership of a federal political party. Its not a great look, but its an absolute necessity. Yves Engler was denied entry to the leadership race by this committee within the NDP was upheld on independent review…and look, if it was without cause, this would…

This was a moment. In the immediate aftermath of a very public assassination of Charlie Kirk, that more rational minds could have spoken up and unilaterally condemned political violence and encouraged the masses to put down their weapons and return to civility. That did not happen. To be absolutely clear, nobody deserves to be murdered for speaking their minds in public. I disagree, bitterly at…

Conservatives are really good at portraying themselves as the voice of the little guy when they’re not in power; they have this identity politics sewn up like pro’s. But working class voters, who’s grievances and anxieties are real, keep being sold a bill of goods that are at times opposite to what was advertised. To be sure, the Liberals are an elitist party. They also say the right things and…

Please understand that your team barely won this election. A minority government where you’re to rely on opposition parliamentary votes to pass legislation. To be sure, Liberals could have claimed victory in any case. The day before Justin Trudeau announced his resignation, his party looked like it was racing towards the electoral cliff and the CPC leadership were measuring the drapes to the…

So there it is. Another federal election done and gone, a new government chosen by voters for up to 4 years, one that will hopefully outlast the insanity south of us. But not all is great. I will start that I am a country-first progressive voter. That is to say that I value my country’s survival and viability above partisanship. So, I am genuinely grateful that the Conservatives lost. But I…

To frame in the discussion, understand that we’re in the late stages of a unusually long minority government under the Federal Liberals’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Justin has been the PM since 2015 when his party was elected to a landslide win over Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party – on a list of progressive pledges of which included electoral reform. A promise broken, by the way; and a…

We enter the BC Election campaign in 2024 starting today with a stark choice at hand. One side, imperfect, offers a new term extending out what its started. That means continuing the land reforms to speed up home construction; expanding supply rapidly to address both a housing shortage and affordability issue. This side also tackles the problems facing the unhoused, those facing addiction issues…