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Nathan Cullen is proposing cross-party co-operation as a strategy to defeat Harper in 2015 and shift Canada to a democratic voting system. Can it work? Stuart Parker does some research on the matter.

Romeo Saganash's historic bid for leader of the New Democratic Party was a milestone, and touched the lives of many Indigenous people, especially our youth.

The Republican caucuses in Iowa, with their cliffhanger ending, confirmed two key political points and left a third virtually ignored.

What's next for Vancouver's ousted Coalition of Progressive Electors? The Left Coast Post investigates.

There are many things money can buy and, to no one's great surprise, one of them is an election.

The Left Coast Post looks beyond the election: can you back Vision Vancouver and not back gentrification?

With three days left until the election, The Left Coast Post catches up with Randy Helten and Nicole Benson of Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver. Spoilers or prophets? You decide.

Advocates of low potash royalties are claiming that New Democrats fared poorly in Saskatchewan's recent election because they proposed higher potash royalties.

To state the obvious, Saskatchewan's provincial election result was not good for progressives. I was especially surprised by the NDP's loss of constituencies like Regina Douglas Park.

Here are five basic things you'll need to know to guide you through the fog of the 2011 Vancouver civic election campaign.

In this week's Vancouver elections coverage, The Left Coast Post chases the Mayor around for answers, and an Occupier appeals for unity and respect.

In 2012, James Lorimer and Company will publish Remembering Jack, a book of stories about Jack Layton written by his friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances.

Volunteer medics at Occupy Vancouver, including an emergency room nurse and a first aid responder, prepare to help those hurt by possible confrontations as rhetoric over removing the camp intensifies.

In this third instalment of The Left Coast Post, Occupy Vancouver becomes a leading election issue, the mayor is interrupted by lobsters, and we talk with Vision councillor Andrea Reimer.

A massive, global social movement has erupted weeks before a municipal election. Its goal is to bring light to the injustice and unsustainability of a corrupt capitalist system.

Le 28 novembre, 2011. Le deuxieme elections democratique au RDC. A report in French about the 2011 elections in DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo, by JP Marquis from Journalists for Human Rights.

Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people, giving them the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.

jhr Rights Radio promotes human rights-based media. Liberia's free elections is a radio drama performed by a jhr youth chapter and produced by jhr international media trainer, Taz Ford.

As incidents in the provincial election show, racism is used to rationalize Aboriginal deprivation and exonerate the rest of society from historical reality and sharing the wealth.

Regarding the NDP platform's reliance on additional potash revenue, columnist Murray Mandryk asks, "What if potash tanks as it did in 2009?"