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Apr 12, 2021

NDPers support Singh agenda, Liberals rattle election sabres

Karl Nerenberg

New Democrats and Liberals both had their conventions this past weekend. Liberal delegates were more focused on winning the next election and less on policy debates than their NDP counterparts.

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Mar 25, 2021

WE brothers counterattack, targeting NDP's Charlie Angus

Karl Nerenberg

Craig and Marc Kielburger, the two brothers who founded WE Charity, have decided to play aggressive offence as they push back against the members of Parliament investigating them.

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Mar 5, 2021

Liberals and Conservatives conspire to cut short a minority government that works

Karl Nerenberg

The current Liberal minority has arguably been working quite well, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Feb 25, 2021

Liberals rhetorically support NDP pharmacare bill, then vote against it

Karl Nerenberg

The purpose of the NDP's pharmacare bill was to advance a process to which the Trudeau government claims it is fully committed. And yet the governing Liberals voted against it.

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Jan 21, 2021

Canadians should cheer as new U.S. government pushes sweeping election reforms

Karl Nerenberg

There is now a chance -- if, perhaps, only a slim one -- the new U.S. government will reform anti-democratic practices that plague the U.S. election process.

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Jan 13, 2021

NDP wants Proud Boys listed as terrorist, some activists say 'bad idea'

Karl Nerenberg

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has suggested the government list the far-right group Proud Boys as a terrorist entity. Both the Liberal and Conservative leaders agree that it's a good idea. But is it?

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Jan 5, 2021

Get ready for an unnecessary federal election in 2021

Karl Nerenberg

Here we are, a mere year and a quarter from the last federal election -- and in the midst of a frightful and deadly pandemic -- yet, believe it or not, Ottawa is full of election talk.

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May 16, 2019

The federal NDP must stand tall in its commitment to a boldly progressive agenda

Libby Davies

In this excerpt from her new memoir "Outside In," the former MP diagnoses what went wrong for the NDP in the 2015 election.

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Mar 20, 2019

Trudeau's budget misleads pensioners whose companies go bankrupt

Karl Nerenberg

Budget 2019 seems to say it guarantees payments to retirees even after bankrupt companies wind up their pension plans. Sounds too good to be true -- and it likely is!

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Mar 20, 2019

Caregivers express concerns about new Liberal immigration pilot programs

Marites N. Sison

Although migrant worker groups across Canada welcomed the announcement of open work permits, they said the program still doesn't end exploitation since it denies workers landed status upon arrival.

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