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Andrea Horwath's bold call for higher taxes on the rich | Apr 20 2012 | Linda McQuaig | 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 Report at the NDP Convention: Video outtakes! | Apr 7 2012 | Krellant Report | The Krellant Evening News brings you the deleted scenes from our special report on the NDP Leadership Convention.

Mulcair is no pushover | Apr 3 2012 | Gerry Caplan | 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.

Judy Rebick: Technocrat tyranny? | Apr 2 2012 | Judy Rebick | The rule of the technocrats: Have democracies given too much control to bureaucrats and policy advisers? Judy Rebick joins Steve Paikin for more.

A thank-you from Brian Topp | Mar 30 2012 | Brian Topp | 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.

Convention-al affects: Lois Lane goes to the NDP Leadership Convention! | Mar 30 2012 | Marusya Bociurkiw | 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.

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Thomas Mulcair? We can't spare that man. He fights! | Mar 30 2012 | David J. Climenhaga | An unwillingness to suffer fools and Conservatives gladly is no barrier to success in Canadian politics -- consider the sterling example of Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Leadership race leaves NDP stronger and wiser | Mar 29 2012 | Alice Klein | Harper foes, take heart. The NDP rank-and-file made good on the party's Opposition promise at last weekend's leadership convention.

The NDP leadership race by the numbers | Mar 28 2012 | Christopher Majka | 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.

Ontario NDP must vote against McGuinty austerity budget | Mar 28 2012 | John Bonnar | 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.

The NDP leadership convention in images | Mar 28 2012 | rabble staff | Thousands of new democrats descended upon the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on the week-end to elect a new leader. Here are a few moments - in photos.

A non-party animal crashes the NDP bash | Mar 28 2012 | Kathleen O'Hara | My objective at the NDP convention? To get a sense of just how much the party was willing to move towards collaboration with others, so that the voices of Canadians could be properly represented.

Not Rex: NDP Leadership 2012 | Mar 27 2012 | Humberto DaSilva | The new leader of the NDP is Thomas Mulcair. So where is he going to take the progressive party?

After the convention -- the babble aftermath | Mar 27 2012 | rabble staff | babble, rabble.ca's discussion forum, accumulated some 147 leadership threads during the NDP leadership race, and after the NDP convention, the lively discussion continues.

Congratulations to Tom Mulcair | Mar 27 2012 | Gary Shaul | Tom Mulcair as new NDP leader provides new opportunities to strengthen the NDP and its relations with social movements. The stakes are too high to substitute sound bites and slogans for analysis.

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2013 UBC Prediction Market for BC election | theleftyinvestor said... The discrepancy of Conservative popular vote shares has been noted now on this forum as well as by...

NDP Socialist Caucus Presents Spring 2013 Edition of Turn Left/Virez a gauche | kropotkin1951 said... Nice painting of Queneesh in the K'ómoks First Nation's territory. Whose art work is that? in

Budget 2013: Canadian International Development Agency to merge with Foreign Affairs Department | onlinediscountanvils said... Federal budget expected to fold CIDA into Foreign AffairsQuote:The independence of the Canadian...

No thread yet about Joe Keithley for NDP Coquitlam - Burke Mountain? | kropotkin1951 said... Yes he is being opposed but my sources say he has signed up a lot of new members so it might come...

Tories using CIDA website to attack NDP | Michelle said... radiorahim also caught screen captures on PDF. If you want to see the articles that were posted on...

NDP Optimistic Eby will Topple Premier Clark in Vancouver-Point Grey Riding Rematch | jerrym said... Here is a connection to an interview with David Eby before the 2011 byelection that gives a good...

Stop the Drone War! Speaking Tour | Boom Boom said... Sounds good. I hope they get tons of support. in

Saganash taking sick leave to treat alcoholism | theleftyinvestor said... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/10/22/pol-saganash-flight-intoxicated.html New Democrat MP...

What if the black bloc have the right idea? | Unionist said... I honestly think you're on the wrong track. Like, really wrong. 180 degrees in the wrong direction...

Palliser NDP Concert/Fundraiser at the Artesian in Regina, Sk on September 8th, 2012. | knownothing said... I just wanted to remind people in the Regina area about the show this weekend. Doors open at 7:30...

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