Is it too soon to play Ontario coalition game theory? It’s never too soon!
Paul Wells: Will there be a ’backroom deal’ between the Ontario Liberals and NDP? Why it’s so tempting—and misguided—to speculate.
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What Canada needs now is another Tommy Douglas
Tom Parkin: If the NDP wins the Ontario election its plan to extend social programs could kick off a much needed new era in co-operative federalism
A double-double of cynicism in Ontario
Tom Parkin: Wynne is allowing smart ideas to be condemned as profligate spending. Ford counters with next to nothing. What’s a voter to do?
The NDP falls back in line behind a ’mature’ Jagmeet Singh
Party stalwart Charlie Angus says the NDP leader’s reversal on punishing an NDP MP has calmed the waters within his caucus
Free advice to the NDP: Measure twice, cut once
Paul Wells: The NDP was headed toward a possible leadership putsch on Tuesday. It’s time for the party to start asking: does it have a plan?
Today’s political partisanship is hurting Canada’s best and brightest
Opinion: Ian Capstick on how toxic partisanship—which led him to quit CBC’s high-profile Power and Politics panel—is affecting mental health in Ottawa
Is Doug Ford’s position on cannabis sales an opportunity for the NDP?
The Ontario PC leader’s pro-privatization plank on weed sales is there for the New Democrats’ picking
Jagmeet Singh’s statement on Sikh separatism: ‘This is not a simple or easy process’
The federal NDP leader released a statement on his appearance at a rally for Sikh independence in 2015
Is Ottawa studying pharmacare to death?
A new advisory council is set to study national pharmacare. The NDP’s health critic says it’s redundant and ’kicking the can down the road.’
The NDP knows what it stands for. Now begins the work of policymaking.
Inequality, pharmacare and intraparty democracy were on the agenda at the NDP’s Ottawa convention. ’The time for timid is over’, said Singh.