BTC: Morning in Toronto
Another town hall, this one in a rather cavernous movie studio in east Toronto,...
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Michael Adams discusses his most recent polling on who Canadians admire most. Pierre Trudeau...
View ArticleJack saves America
The text of Jack Layton’s speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington this...
View ArticleThe ghost of Tommy Douglas? (III)
Rob Silver wonders if Ujjal Dosanjh, Jack Layton and a Conservative to be named...
View Article'This just in: no one in the United States dies at all'
An hour before Barack Obama’s primetime press conference, Jack Layton addresses the nation. The...
View ArticleDon't let them tell you there's a monster under your bed
Jack Layton talks health care at Huffington Post. No care for life-threatening conditions, no...
View ArticleWhy Michael Ignatieff is hard to find these days
He’s the fourth Liberal leader since Chrétien. This in a party that once took 81 years to burn through that many leaders.
View ArticleOn socialism
Also from Dominic LeBlanc’s scrum yesterday. This is what it sounds like when coalitions...
View ArticleThe next great leader
The Mark convenes a number of political actors and observers to discuss the best...
View Article’500 ways to say no’
Canada's Access to Information program is in shambles. Here's why.
View ArticleThis week: Newsmakers
The fatheads who resent the war on fat, plus Quebec announces a new anti-corruption unit
View ArticleThe people's preacher
How Tommy Douglas honed his political skills behind the pulpit of a small-town church
View ArticleThe kids are perfectly normal
Arash Azizi makes the case for Her Majesty’s youthful opposition. Far from being “one...
View ArticleTommy Douglas takes Vermont
Vermont’s governor signs into law a single payer health care system. Tommy Douglas references...
View ArticleTrudeau muscle and why Elizabeth May is feeling guilty
How tough is Justin Trudeau? When Montreal Liberal MP Justin Trudeau... was in Toronto
View ArticleOur country’s story has not been written only by election winners
Jack Layton's state funeral was a ceremony of love, respect and civility
View ArticleThe idealist
The Literary Review of Canada excerpts Jack Layton’s foreword to a new book about...
View ArticleTalking shop
Aaron Wherry sits down with Bob Rae to discuss the state of Parliament and politics
View ArticleKeeper of the flame
As the NDP prepares to select its seventh leader, here is a 1986 documentary...
View Article‘New Democrats will continue to work to ensure that one day it becomes part...
A statement from NDP leader Thomas Mulcair on the anniversary of the Charter. It...
View ArticleTrudeau quoting Goethe
Pat Martin thought he heard echoes of Tommy Douglas in Justin Trudeau’s speech last...
View ArticleWill the arduous fight over the Tommy Douglas intelligence file end up at the...
OTTAWA – The federal government says there is “no issue of public importance” involved...
View ArticleThe Commons: The NDP convenes with its past and its future
A weekend in Montreal with Mulcair and his brothers and sisters
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Tommy Douglas: The Saskatchewan socialist who sold collective action
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View ArticleWhat Canada needs now is another Tommy Douglas
Though he was only a premier of a province, in 20 years Saskatchewan’s Tommy Douglas brought a revolution in social policy to everyone in Canada: universal health care. Since Douglas’s time, Canadian...
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The history of why Canada’s health care system falls short
Christine Sismondo’s Canadian Moments column looks at what history can teach us about a current moment in Canadian news, politics, or culture. Read more of her columns here. This Jan. 1, Ontario...
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All the obstacles standing between Jagmeet Singh and a revived NDP
The facts of the matter don’t wholly warrant the New Democratic Party’s outward appearances of jubilation now that their leader, Jagmeet Singh, is finally assuming his place in the House of Commons...
View ArticleThe Democrats want to Make America Canada Already
It could be due to our geographic proximity, our entangled history or our steady diet of American pop culture and news. Whatever the reason, the fact is that we chronically compare ourselves to the...
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