Columnists
With new governments in Alberta and Ottawa, Parkland Institute asks: What's left?
Duncan Cameron | What are the tasks facing the Canadian left following the defeat of the Harper government? The Parkland Institute tackled these questions and more at its 19th annual conference.
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In the wake of Harper's defeat, let's not forget electoral reform
Stephen Kimber | With such delightful electoral results last week, who really wanted to contemplate the uh-oh that came with showing Stephen Harper the prime ministerial don't-let-it-hit-you-on-the-way-out door?
Columnists
We can deliver change this election by working together
Alice Klein | Let's vote for our collective self-interest: smartly and efficiently to elect as many Liberals, NDPers and Greens as possible on October 19.
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Social movements can still show Harper the door
Dylan Penner | The outcome of election 2015 is far from certain. And when Harper loses it will be -- at least in part -- because movements showed him the door.
Columnists
The Greens: A party that plays politics like the others
Murray Dobbin | Instead of sticking to the Green Party's principled goal of ridding the country of the Harper Conservatives, Elizabeth May risks electing Conservatives in B.C.
Columnists
A single-issue election: The anti-Harper vote
Marc Zwelling | Pollsters and pundits are trying to isolate the issues. Is the economy top of mind? Health care? But there is really only one ballot-box question: Do you want four more years of Stephen Harper or not?
Columnists
Bill C-51: Stephen Harper, Anonymous and the Joker's gambit
Wayne MacPhail | What can popular culture tell us about Bill C-51 and the world another Harper government would usher in? The number 1 lesson is that we can't give in to fear.
Columnists
Can the NDP and Liberals differentiate themselves enough to beat Harper?
Rick Salutin | This election, for two-thirds of Canadians, shouldn't have to be about a choice between two flawed opposition parties who don't differ on much. It should be a choice between Harper and not-Harper.
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The NDP and the strategic voting narrative
Michael Laxer | In 2015 any 'strategic voting' narrative should heavily favour the NDP. So why do the NDP seem stuck in 1993?
Columnists
The law of mobilization and the defeat of Stephen Harper
Duncan Cameron | It is a law of politics: to make things happen, people have to be mobilized. The political party that succeeds is the one that builds support, and gets people to vote for it.
Activist Toolkit
Speak out against racial profiling and anti-immigrant raids
| Don't support Harper's anti-migrant agenda! Stop Ontario Provincial Police doing immigration enforcement's dirty work.
Activist Toolkit
Stop Harper's First Nation Termination Plan!
| First Nations are being stripped of their sovereign status thanks to imposed policy and coercion by the Harper Government