Tune in to watch the Toronto Area Council NDP Federal Leadership debate, live today at 7:30 p.m. EST.
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A New Year's leadership wish list for 2012
A great big, blue-sky-dreaming, New Year's wish list for 2012: a better prime minister.
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Stephen Lewis's eulogy for Jack Layton
Never in our collective lifetime have we seen such an outpouring, so much emotional intensity, from every corner of this country. There have been occasions, historically, when we've seen respect and admiration but never so much love, never such a shocked sense of personal loss.
Jack was so alive, so much fun, so engaged in daily life with so much gusto, so unpretentious, that it was hard while he lived to focus on how incredibly important that was to us, he was to us. Until he was so suddenly gone, cruelly gone, at the pinnacle of his career.
To hear so many Canadians speak so open-heartedly of love, to see young and old take chalk in hand to write without embarrassment of hope, or hang banners from overpasses to express their grief and loss. It's astonishing.
Canadian politics needs a game changer
As we head into a new political season it looks depressingly like the old: a standoff between the malignant minority government of Stephen Harper, and the seriously diminished Liberal Party and its hapless leader Michael Ignatieff.
Both these parties and their leaders are so off the mark in terms of what Canadians want and need that they can't even break through the 30 per cent support mark. Harper seems to have written off Quebec -- a typically petulant response to that province's stubborn attraction to social democracy. The Liberals have lost their ability to connect with Quebec as well, virtually guaranteeing that the Bloc Quebecois will continue to dominate that province and make a majority federal government almost impossible.
Hey, world leaders. The time to act is now!
Hey, world leaders, I don't need to tell you about the sorry state of the world right now.
Your own communiqués -- a paper trail leading from last year's summit to this one -- outline a lot of the problems pretty clearly.
And they point to a number of potentially powerful solutions that, if actually implemented, could do wonders for our messed-up planet. So it's time to get off your butts and get moving.
NDP Leader Candidates' Debate in Toronto
Mar 1 2012 - 7:00pm
Mar 1 2012 - 10:00pm
Location
OISE UofT
252 Bloor Street West Room 2-212 and 2-213
TorontoCanada
Phone:
647 728 9143
43° 40' 4.8072" N, 79° 23' 54.312" W
See map: Google Maps
Debate format: opening statements by the candidates for NDP federal Leader, followed by Socialist Caucus panel questions, candidates' answers, followed by audience questions, candidates' answers, and closing statements.
Everyone is welcome. Free admission. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Contact name:
Julius Arscott
Contact email:
Watch the livestream rebroadcast: Toronto Area Council NDP Federal Leadership Debate
Tune in to watch the rebroadcast of the Toronto Area Council NDP Federal Leadership debate. Originally streamed live on Wednesday, January 18, 7:30 p.m. EST. The theme of the debate "An Agenda for Canadian Cities," offers candidates an opportunity to articulate their vision for urban centres. The debate is divided into three main sections: Infrastructure renewal, equality and social issues, and sustainable economy. NOTE ON AUDIO: There were local problems with the sound system. We switched to our own mic a few minutes into the livestream, so sound improves a few minutes in.
Training the trainers: creating dynamic leaders
The legendary Vancouver Women Health Collective has comprised this excellent workshop guide for training workshop leaders. It's tough to do your first workshop and this guide goes beyond explaining facilitation.
It includes:
Easy to use checklists and agendas
How to present yourself
How to prepare materials
Tips for dynamic facilitators
