Good news both for the traditional party of the left and for the progressive side of the political spectrum: the dark and dour media narrative about the NDP has changed dramatically for the better.
Does the Green win mean Canadians might be much more serious about climate change than most politicians seem to think? Maybe, but one byelection does not tell the whole story.
Justin Trudeau is popular because Canadians still have the image of what a decade of Conservative government looks like, looming large in our collective rearview mirror.
After a speech like yesterday's, the conservative refrain that Alberta Premier Rachel Notley isn't fighting for what Albertans want is starting to wear pretty thin.
At its upcoming policy convention the NDP will once again debate whether it should abandon any reference, prominent or otherwise, to democratic "socialism".
Radical means going back to the roots of a question or a problem and trying to find its source, so as to better understand what to do. The roots of the CCF/NDP were in the world economy of the 1930s.