Podcast
Scott Neigh
| JoAnn Jaffe and Peter Garden talk about the organization Stop the Cuts and about the anti-austerity fightback in Saskatchewan. |
Blog
Dru Oja Jay
| Building strong social movements -- and campaigning for a Liberal minority government in 2019 -- could be progressives' best chance at building a better Canada. |
Blog
Max Cameron
| Parliamentary systems of government are uniquely well suited to ensuring that stable governments are formed even when no party wins a majority of seats in Parliament. |
Blog
Karl Nerenberg
| Stephen Harper told CBC's Peter Mansbridge that he thinks he 'wins' the election if he gets the most seats. That is pure humbug. |
Blog
Karl Nerenberg
| A great many Canadians are highly fearful that 'vote-splitting' will allow Harper to slip back into power. How legitimate is that fear? It may be overblown. |
Blog
Scott Vrooman
| Nearly half of all Canadians think coalition governments are inappropriate. In other words, nearly half of all Canadians don’t know how parliamentary democracies are meant to work. |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| The fact is clear: turn down one coalition partner, the door opens to another. When the Liberals reject the NDP, they embrace Conservatives. |
Blog
Karl Nerenberg
| Trudeau's prevarications on 'coalition' provided a disquieting insight into the Liberal leader's thinking, or lack thereof. The election results will determine whether a coalition is on or off. |
Columnists
Murray Dobbin
| It is obvious to all progressive Canadians that if either the Liberals or the Conservatives win a majority the country is in deep trouble. How can the NDP distinguish itself in election 2015? |
Blog
Gerry Caplan
| Don't think, after a lifetime of deep attachment to the NDP, it doesn't kill me to write these words. But anything else is a recipe for continued Conservative rule. |
Blog
Brent Patterson
| While the federal election is still ten months away, there is already speculation that a likely outcome of the vote on October 19, 2015 is a Conservative minority government that could be displaced by |
Blog
Brent Patterson
| Could the outcome of the October 2015 federal election be a minority parliament where the issue of a coalition government becomes the key political question? |