NDP Federal Leadership Race

In the 1930s, social democrats nurtured a political culture and an intellectual climate in which socialist ideas would be embraced. But today's NDP has evolved into a party much like the others.

This Smash the State Report starts off with the re-opening of the abortion debate in Canada, then jumps into the Quebec student strike, the Yinka-Dene Freedom Train and much more!

A recent Hungarian law says that it is the "monopoly of the State" to "use coercion." An official clearly implies that previously the State was unable to check extremist intimidation of Roma.

Putting an end to this political class arrogance is what the experience of the longest-serving NDP members has shown to be the major and vital challenge for the Canadian centre-left.

Top Tories fanned out across Canada today touting support for CETA, the “most ambitious trade deal in history.” The Left Coast Post asked Vancouver councillor Tim Stevenson what's the deal.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath has thrown down a gauntlet -- demanding that Dalton McGuinty impose a new slightly higher tax rate on Ontarians making more than $500,000 a year.

The Krellant Evening News brings you the deleted scenes from our special report on the NDP Leadership Convention.

Faithful readers will know that I've spent my adult life trying to get the NDP to be realistic about its modest status in Canadian life.

The rule of the technocrats: Have democracies given too much control to bureaucrats and policy advisers? Judy Rebick joins Steve Paikin for more.

When it's over, it's over. And like all New Democrats all across Canada, there must be only one thing on all of our minds from now on -- unity behind our new leader.

I went to my first political convention last weekend. The NDP Leadership Convention, to be exact. I felt a bit like an imposter: I didn't wear a partisan T-shirt or wave a sign. Instead, I scribbled.

An unwillingness to suffer fools and Conservatives gladly is no barrier to success in Canadian politics -- consider the sterling example of Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Harper foes, take heart. The NDP rank-and-file made good on the party's Opposition promise at last weekend's leadership convention.

As the dust settles on the NDP leadership race, this may be an instructive "teachable moment" to examine some dimensions of the campaign and what messages it sends to the NDP.

Andrea Horwath can't support the provincial budget as is. Even if it means toppling the Liberals and sending voters back to the polls for an election they surely don't want.