Audrey McLaughlin
The Commons: The NDP convenes with its past and its future
A weekend in Montreal with Mulcair and his brothers and sisters
Welcome to the club
The Conservatives formally initiate Brian Topp with a leaked memo of partisan attacks.
The eternal question
A few interesting reads from the weekend: Susan Delacourt looks at new research into the electability of women in Canada, Alice Funke adds her own analysis, and Linda Silver Dranoff reviews Canada’s Unfinished Democracy. From the latter.
Ralph Benmergui is the new Ari Fleischer
Susan Delacourt reports on the man whose job it will be to get you to take the Green party seriously. In hindsight, this move was perhaps foreshadowed by the jacket Mr. Benmergui wore in this early 90s TV bit.
Long way to go
Belinda Stronach on women in politics.
Change envy
Obama causes 47 per cent of Canadians to feel disappointed with their political options