Is Trudeau really showing ’courtesy’ to Singh?
Tom Parkin: By delaying a by-election call for months, the Liberals are sidelining their opponent, and denying thousands of Canadians a voice in Parliament
NDP
On the case of Erin Weir, Jagmeet Singh has done everything right
Tom Parkin: The talk radio speculation and misplaced attacks on the NDP leader show the fragile gains of the #MeToo movement
What Jagmeet Singh can learn from Rachel Notley’s NDP
Jen Gerson: The hard work of governing means having your feet planted firmly on the ground—even if there are pipelines beneath you
Justin Trudeau, west of Toronto, bailing water
Paul Wells: A region of considerable Liberal strength in 2015 has become a region of Liberal woe today, and ’Team Trudeau’ is taking notice
How Doug Ford did it
Inside the chaotic Ontario election campaign and the last-ditch effort that put the controversial PC leader in the premier’s office
Andrea Horwath’s election night speech: ’Change for the better’ — full transcript
The new leader of the official opposition told supporters that the NDP had ’won more seats than we have held in a generation’
Naomi Klein on ’disaster capitalism’ in Puerto Rico
By pushing Trans Mountain, Notley and Trudeau are ’still doubling down on the old economy, and that means they have failed,’ she argues
The Ontario party platforms are thin gruel—the PCs the least thin
Peter Shawn Taylor: With little concern for fiscal responsibility and a total avoidance of hard choices, each of the party platforms offer slim pickings
Doug Ford, Jagmeet Singh and the myth of the ’ethnic vote’
Both politicians have been cast as potential beneficiaries of outsized support from ethnic voters. The evidence suggests something different.
The Maclean’s-Pollara Ontario poll: Only the NDP is gaining support
Paul Wells: Andrea Horwath’s New Democrats and Doug Ford’s PCs are in a dead heat now with voter perception of the leaders starting to settle