NDP #17

15 to 1 think it is fair as opposed to not fair.  

Thank you for voting!

Fair 42.86%   

The Conservatives Had it Coming 28.2%   

The NDP are just as bad 15.79%  

Don't Even Get Me Started on the Liberals 6.02%   A

pox on all their houses 4.14%   

Not Fair 2.99%   

Walking through the NDP’s latest attack ad on Conservative ethics

http://blogs.canoe.com/davidakin/politics/walking-through-the-ndps-lates...

NorthReport wrote:

I thought I saw her name on a list.

Yes. This list:

The 21 senators named, but not recommended for RCMP referral, in Senate audit

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/05/list-of-senators-named-in-...

Nicole Eaton is also on that list and appears in the ad. 

mark_alfred wrote:

bekayne wrote:

NorthReport wrote:

I thought I saw her name on a list.

Yes. This list:

The 21 senators named, but not recommended for RCMP referral, in Senate audit

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/05/list-of-senators-named-in-...

Nicole Eaton is also on that list and appears in the ad. 

But, as I mentioned in my previous post, the RCMP broadened its review to all 30, rather than just the nine:

Quote:

The RCMP is reviewing the auditor-general’s findings on all 30 senators flagged for questionable spending, not just the nine referred by the senate, to determine whether a broader investigation is warranted, the Star has learned.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/17/rcmp-to-review-findings-on...

I posted before I read yours

A healthy person's guide to being strategic in the October 19, 2015 federal election.

How to maximize your impact on the federal election

A guide to strategic participation

http://www.straight.com/news/488341/nicholas-ellan-how-maximize-your-imp...

"Enough" is causing a huge stir in Canadian politics.

The right-wing is flipping out.

Just saw panelists interviewed on CTV - The NDP has scored a bullseye with their latest ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmmSV1jtK3s

 There is nothing actionable in that ad.

Brachina wrote:

 There is nothing actionable in that ad.

I am not a lawyer, but I think you're probably right. I also think that even if the ad contained a dozen obvious libels, the Cons would probably not sue, because the election would be over long before trial, so any vindication would be too late to make a political difference. Meanwhile, the ad would get far more mindshare than it otherwise would have, with no cost to the NDP. The Con strategists are too smart to fall into that trap.

Liberal media complex making up a silly story when there is none.

Nothing to see here folks - standard practice.

Tom Mulcair's NDP seeks advice on preparing to govern after election

New Democrat transition team looks to former senior civil servants for help

Page said he has been consulted by other parties and considers it good practice. The NDP, he said, is being responsible.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tom-mulcair-s-ndp-seeks-advice-on-prepar...

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Oh, lookie 

http://warrenkinsella.com/2015/07/counting-chickens-before-theyre-hatche...

Let's cut through the Harper spin

Why spending cuts by the Harper government are causing them political harm

http://tcnorris.blogspot.ca/2015/07/why-spending-cuts-by-harper-governme...

In federal race, the party that adapts will win

The best-laid plans of political parties often go awry. It's what happens next that matters.

Mulcair has the toughest task in that the NDP has never governed nationally. With voters getting skittish over the economy, Mulcair is highly vulnerable to an attack that simply poses the question: “At a moment when we face risks graver than any in decades can you trust these amateurs with your house, your job?”

For the first time in Canadian history the three national parties have the money, the tools, and the seasoned campaign leadership to manage this dramatically shifting political landscape. Each can probe voters’ deepest motivators to the highest-ever degree of granularity, and therefore confidence, through expensive research. Each has the ability to pivot and to re-target its central campaign messaging by 90 or even 180 degrees, through television, social media and on the ground in more than half the ridings. And each party has a leader demonstrably capable of serving as a powerful messenger to their target voter.

But in a volatile contest, with competitors bringing similar assets and capabilities to an unusually level playing field, victory will go to the campaign strategist who breaks out of their comfort zone, who challenges orthodoxy, who seizes the beau risque.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/07/15/in-federal-race-the...

How refreshing.

Alberta tries a new tone on oilsands development:

There’s a new oil baron in town. Alberta’s Rachel Notley is redrawing the political map when it comes to pipelines.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/07/16/alberta-tries-a-new-tone-o...

Canada's New Democrats seek new budget outlook due to low growth

Canada's opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) asked the country's Parliamentary Budget Officer on Monday to update federal budget figures in light of a sharply weaker economic forecast from the Bank of Canada.

Canada's Conservative government, which is facing an election in October, has pledged to balance the books this year for the first time in almost a decade. But the economy's struggles since last year's plunge in prices for oil, a major Canadian export, have raised doubts about whether this can be achieved.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer, Jean-Denis Frechette, has a mandate to provide independent analysis to the country's lawmakers.

"The downgrade in the Canadian economic forecast is likely to have a significant impact on the fiscal projections included in budget 2015," NDP Member of Parliament Nathan Cullen, the left-leaning party's spokesman on finance, wrote Frechette.

The NDP have pulled ahead of the Conservatives in recent opinion polls, with the economy seen as a factor.

The government's budget in April forecast a narrow surplus of C$1.4 billion ($1.1 billion) in the fiscal year that started on April 1, but that was predicated on economic growth of 2.0 percent in 2015.

At the time, the Bank of Canada projected a similar growth level, 1.9 percent, for 2015. But the central bank downgraded that to 1.1 percent on Wednesday and said the economy likely shrank in the first two quarters.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/20/reuters-america-canadas-new-democrats-see...

Mulcair gets vocal welcome at rally in London

http://london.ctvnews.ca/mulcair-gets-vocal-welcome-at-rally-in-london-1...

NDP need to be clear, focused, and have their act together on Canada's failing economy - it's the jobs stupid!

Oil price collapse warning issued by Morgan Stanley 

Crash may be worst in more than 45 years

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/energy/price+collapse+warning+is...

Can Canada's NDP do it as well?  

Hope for radical progressives might be found in the tale of Jeremy Corbyn

Needless to say, Corbyn has become the firm favourite to become leader of Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition. It is a development unprecedented in postwar British history — and this, by the way, is quantifiable; one major betting house had Corbyn at 100-to-1 to win the leadership when he entered the race. (He’s a smidgen away from even odds now.) The thought of Corbyn calmly expounding on austerity, while his not-easily-distinguishable rivals bandy about welfare cuts and defence needs, has proven magnetic to young progressives, to nostalgic oldies who run the local constituencies and to the labour unions. All are lining up behind him and polls of Labour cardholders suggest he will have a big first-ballot lead.

If you ask me “what’s so interesting about the Jeremy Corbyn phenomenon,” my answer will be, “everything.” To a student of Labour party history, the rocket-like rise of Corbynism is an addicting, action-packed cartoon, with new episodes daily. But when you pair the Corbyn moment with the startling early success of socialist Bernie Sanders in the campaign for the U.S. Democratic nomination — Sanders being so far to the left end of the Democrats that he is literally outside the party — you may even have the hint of a serious Anglosphere trend.

Trends, notoriously, require a third data point, and maybe that could be Alberta’s May election. Rachel Notley’s success at knocking off a feckless, centrist Conservative government was, like the nascent Corbyn and Sanders waves, visibly youth-driven. After months of thinking, I still cannot escape a generational interpretation of the Alberta election. Alberta is, in brute demographic terms, on the cusp of a handover of power from Baby Boomers to millennials. It’s all about the age-sex pyramid. (You notice that, when you’re in the narrow, politically impotent part of it.)

Many personality features are carelessly ascribed to millennials by professional bloviators. (No rigour! Coddled, under-educated indoor weenies raised by Google and video games!) What is indisputable is that millennials have personal memories that do not include the Cold War or double-digit inflation. They have no interest in socialism or social democracy, but they do not associate those terms with positions in a death struggle of organizing principles for civilization. They are children of a dampened business cycle — what economists call “The Great Moderation.”

The Moderation blew a tire in 2007, and that is the kind of event that calls verities into question. In the U.K., it has led to the paradox of Jeremy Corbyn, almost literally the lone survivor of a trampled and forgotten political clique, seeming new and incredibly refreshing. Even I feel it, watching him. Perhaps he represents hope for radicals of all species.

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/colby-cosh-hope-for-radical-pr...

 Mulcair maybe the fourth point on that in October.

Mulcair hopes to extend 'orange wave' with campaign launch

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ndp-leader-tom-mulcair-hits...

Warren Kinsella ✔@kinsellawarren

Serious question: where is the #ndp war room? #cpc and #lpc scoring on 'em, big time, but no return fire. What gives? #elxn42 #cdnpoli

11:04 AM - 11 Aug 2015

http://warrenkinsella.com/2015/08/after-10-days/

New online NDP ad:  A Case For Change.