Vancouver Sun (blog) - May 26, 2012 Two months have passed since Thomas Mulcair became the new leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP). Canadians have had a chance to listen to the man who has taken over the official opposition status attained by the late Jack Layton one year ... |
| rabble.ca (blog) - May 11, 2012 By James Laxer On election night in January 2006, Jack Layton declared that Canadians had "voted out of hope for change" and expressed the conviction that the NDP caucus, 29 MPs as compared with 19 in 2004, would help place working people and seniors ... |
Goderich Signal-Star - May 24, 2012 As party-in-waiting there is much to celebrate and much to plan for the upcoming 2015 elections. NDP supporters are encouraged to enjoy the excitement as party members plan for the future, celebrate where we the past, and elect a new executive for the ... |
The Mark - May 11, 2012 Slightly more than a year after becoming the Official Opposition for the first time, the New Democratic Party is now polling higher than the governing Conservatives, according to data released on Thursday by Canadian Press/ Harris Decima. |
National Post - May 19, 2012 But the Tory goal is to expand international markets for Canada's agriculture sector. The Special Rapporteur recommends a shift from export markets to a more bucolic and heavily subsidized domestic existence. |
North Shore News - May 23, 2012 Veniez finished a distant third, with 22.5 per cent of the vote. NDP candidate Terry Platt edged out Veniez for second place. |
| Globe and Mail - May 6, 2012 Unemployment is too high and growth too low, mostly because the United States and other developed nations are in even worse shape, weakening Canadian exports. And the Tories are increasingly worried about NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. |
National Post - May 9, 2012 The Globe and Mail's John Ibbitson thinks Thomas Mulcair has far more to fear from someone like Brad Wall, who is on the warpath against the NDP leader's views on the natural resource industry, than he does from the Conservatives' (in our view) ... |
National Post - Apr 30, 2012 Even though the end result was a Stephen Harper majority government, the NDP took a giant leap forward last May. In one election, the party may very well have taken the first step in killing off Canada's natural governing party, positioning the Dippers ... |
| Canada.com (blog) - May 16, 2012 The Conservatives talked about banning bulk water exports in both its 2008 election platform and its throne speech that same year but most of the recent discussions have come out of Liberal and NDP ranks. Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia has thrice ... |
| National Post - May 8, 2012 The argument of quality goes like this: The Harper government's planned reforms, as outlined in Bill C-38, are not only timely, because of global circumstances, but more sensible than anything the opposition, particularly the NDP, has on offer. |
| National Post - May 3, 2012 And, for a riding like Kitchener-Waterloo, which has gone to the provincial Progressive Conservatives for five consecutive elections, or since Bob Rae was the NDP premier of the province, we call it a “stronghold.” Perhaps a “bastion. |
| Opposition parties have accused the Conservatives of using their majority to "shut down" debate by holding parliamentary committee meetings behind closed doors, but figures obtained by The Canadian Press show there have been more secret meetings under ... |
| Globe and Mail - May 14, 2012 There is some strategic similarity between RIM and the Liberal Party of Canada. The Liberals also once seemed like the dominant force in its marketplace, and squandered their opportunities to expand into new products for new markets. |
| Most organized religions were reserved at best, while gays and liberal Christians marvelled at the president's move, which distances his Democratic Party campaign significantly from the Republicans and their expected candidate Mitt Romney. |
World Socialist Web Site - May 18, 2012 The Democratic Party in the United States and the social-democratic NDP in Canada use such issues in the attempt to establish points of difference with their more right-wing opponents, and thus win support in more affluent layers of the middle class, ... |
Whistler Question - May 19, 2012 Dan Veniez has dropped his defamation suit against John Weston after the Conservative Member of Parliament apologized to the former federal Liberal Party candidate for information distributed by the Weston campaign workers just before the 2011 election ... |
Oak Bay News - May 2, 2012 Garrison, serving his first term in Ottawa, said the year since election day has been “tumultuous” for his party, “with the high of the NDP becoming the official opposition, to the low of losing (leader) Jack Layton.” Saanich-Gulf Islands MP Elizabeth ... |
MetroNews Canada - May 17, 2012 Dosanjh was NDP premier from 2000 until he was defeated by Gordon Campbell's Liberals in 2001. He became a Liberal MP in 2004 and remained in federal politics until he was defeated in the May 2011 election. The inquiry is examining why the Vancouver ... |
| National Post - May 15, 2012 He is the half-brother of the current King, Abdullah II, and for a short time had been Crown Prince before being replaced by his nephew in 2004. The couple met while 33-year-old Hasan was working as the chief pilot at the Royal Aero Sports Club of ... |
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