A leadership race is an opportunity to promote bold ideas and invigorate a political movement. Canada’s right-wing party seems to understand this, the left not so much. In recent months Conservative Party leadership contenders have promoted a bevy of extremist ideas. Last week the spokesperson for Conservative contender Brad Trost boasted that his candidate is... Continue Reading →
NDP leadership candidates call for foreign policy debate
There has yet to be a single question about foreign policy in the NDP’s first two leadership debates, but some contenders say they want the party to devote a forum to international affairs. During a gathering organized by Courage after the recent youth issues debate in Montreal I asked Niki Ashton whether she voted in... Continue Reading →
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