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Letters
May 11, 2011

After attending the YesMen workshop last night, it is glaringly apparent that what's missing in ALT politics is a sense of humour. Notoriously lacking in the labour movement, it has spread like a virus throughout the Canadian political environment (see NDP).

I'm happy to see "If you can't trust a sock monkey, your soul is dead." on the Rabble site.

I consider ridicule to be one of the highest forms of political action, and the workshop was inspiring. OTPOR is also a good example of how this works.

This is a brilliant plan coming from Jean-François Lisée, yes, a separatist. It's in French but you have some tools.

http://www2.lactualite.com/jean-francois-lisee/note-aux-progressistes-canadiens-comment-battre-harper-en-2015/9041/

Build on Historic Gains for NDP
by Barry Weisleder

Voters in Canada made history on May 2 when they catapulted the labour-based New Democratic Party into Official Opposition status. Relegated to distant third place is the former main party of business rule, the Liberal Party. Its head, Michael Ignatieff, lost his own Toronto seat and resigned as party leader. And despite a mere 1.8 per cent increase in its share of the vote, and with over 60 per cent cast against them, the autocratic right wing Stephen Harper Conservatives gained a majority of seats.

Oh dear...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/05/09/bc-charg...

Yes.. 60% didn't vote for Harper,

but 70% didn't vote for Layton either.

I think the idea is misguided.  How are people living at the poverty level going to feel in the midst of a neighborhood filled with multi-million dollar mansions?  Plus, there's the risk that it degenerates into a media circus.

First post

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/05/05/nb-ndp-libe...

"New Brunswick's Liberals and New Democrats should consider greater co-operation between the parties to push forward policies of common interest, NDP Leader Dominic Cardy said Thursday.

Cardy, who became the province's NDP leader in March, said during CBC New Brunswick's weekly political panel that the two parties should consider looking beyond the traditional party structures.

Seems like in Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup, the NDP candidate, François Lapointe, might win over the Tories candidate, Bernard Généreux:

(French article)

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/dossiers/elections-federales/201105/04/01-4395908-le-npd-prend-la-tete-devant-bernard-genereux.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B4_en-manchette_2238_section_POS2

Hi! I'm new here. Not sure if I should be (LOL), but after voting Reform/Alliance/Conservative for ages, I just voted NDP for the first time, so feeling a little "dirty". 

I am however, very excited to see how the NDP's shinny-happy new candidates in Quebec do once settled in Ottawa. This should be a fun session of Parliament.

Going to shower now :P

all in all, if we put aside toronto and quebec, this wasn't such a stellar night for the way.

and the defeat that hurts the most is tony martin, that's a real stinger, easily the 3rd best member of the caucus, it's hard for me to imagine an ndp opposition without him there on the front benches.

maloway, i'm not really has much of an effect on the caucus, though it'd have been nice not to have lost such a safe seat. and rebecca blaikie, god love her, should not run again. speaking of manitoba (cough), kenora, damn, thought that one would be closer.

other thoughts: a stronger candidate in van island north couldn't have hurt; palliser is getting to feel unwinnable. reagan and keddy in nova scotia, two very tough nuts to crack, and mckay just ran away with that one this time.

The Tra La Las, a band from Kitchener-Waterloo -  have released an election day song to remind Canadians that "Harper is the Root of All Evil"

more tra la las at - http://www.myspace.com/thetralalasmusic

hope you all enjoy it:

Canada's massive military budget is off the table in federal election by Matthew Behrens (APRIL 26, 2011)

I wish I could flag Kathleen O'Hara's "column" as offensive - Canadians are tired of being told they have no choice; that they have to choose one of two interchangeable red or blue doors. People on the Left have been "strategically" voting en masse since 1993 and it has gotten us nothing but Liberal majorities that implement the Reform Party's neo-liberal agenda and Conservative minorities propped up by Liberal seals. The fact that Rabble is playing into this BS by promoting columns like Ms. O'Hara's leaves me aghast (I will remember it the next time Rabble solicits me for money).