Layton’s against the old games. It’s a new one now.
What leverage will Layton’s much larger caucus have?
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John Geddes
John Geddes is Ottawa bureau chief at Maclean’s and has covered federal politics and policy for more than two decades. He also writes regularly about art.
Jack’s granddaughter takes a peek at the crowd
At midnight, Jack Layton’s granddaughter, Beatrice, not quite two years old, poked her face through the black curtain around the...
NDP central is restrained, so far [UPDATED minutes later]
No wild partying here at Jack Layton’s headquarters. It’s odd, given what’s happened. New Democrats were cheering as the results...
Good evening from Layton HQ
Greetings from NDP headquarters here in the basement of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, down near Lake Ontario, where the...
Pierre Trudeau and the campaign of 2011
This election may be the last on which the former Liberal PM will have had a shaping influence
Jack Layton’s amazing race
How Layton turned an also-ran NDP party into an organized and aggressive operation
Probing the NDP surge: middle-class credibility and more
Jack Layton talked up pocketbook pressures on the middle class in every speech
A musical campaign interlude: deep doo-wop
Election campaigns can be tuneful. There are the theme songs they crank up when the leaders make their entrances at campaign...
Jack Layton in conversation: riding high, talking policy and politics
The NDP leader stops by Maclean’s in Toronto for a wide-ranging discussion
Jack Layton on building the NDP’s Quebec campaign surprise
Why success in Quebec is the product of carefully laid foundations, not some quirk of this particular race