As a long-time NDP voter, I think that Charlie Angus' candidacy for the NDP leadership, reported here by NOW Toronto's Kevin Ritchie, is a very good thing for the party, or at least that it can be.

Punk rock-style swag was on display at the bar as supporters packed the Horseshoe Tavern on Queen West. After short sets by musicians including Jason ( Read more... )

Martin Regg Cohn's Toronto Star column makes some harsh, but not necessarily inaccurate, judgments about NDP feelings towards Ontario's capital and largest city.

Despite [leader Andrea Horwath's] right turn, her fellow New Democrats at city hall are going in the opposite direction. Mere days after she explained herself to Tory - no need to toll ( Read more... )

Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc is fed up with the NDP's failure to get Toronto voters, most recently on the road toll issue.

How long do progressives and urban dwellers more generally have to wait before Ontario’s NDP stops compensating (atoning?) for former premier Bob Rae’s decision, circa the early 1990s, to slap tolls on Highway 407 ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Martin Regg Cohn writes about why one Toronto NDP MPP left his party over its opposition to road tolls.

Politicians are like pretzels - easily twisted out of shape ( Read more... )

MacLean's shares this Canadian Press report describing how MP Charlie Angus is apparently aiming to become NDP leader. All I can say that, as his is the first serious candidacy, it's about time.

New Democrat MP Charlie Angus stepped aside as his party’s caucus chair and indigenous affairs critic Wednesday to contemplate a potential leadership bid ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Robin Levinson King reports on the withdrawal of Toronto NDP MP Cheri DiNovo from the leadership contest for the NDP. That DiNovo's candidacy was informal, and that she was the only one running, says worrisome things.

Cheri DiNovo is dropping out of the NDP leadership race because of problems with her health ( Read more... )

NOW Toronto/I>'s Michelle da Silva looks at Cheri DiNovo's candidacy.

The federal NDP leadership race has its first candidate - sort of. Cheri DiNovo, the long time NDP MPP for Parkdale-High Park, tossed her hat in the ring June 7, declaring herself as the “unofficial candidate” to replace Tom Mulcair ( Read more... )

If NDP Ontario MPP Cheri DiNovo were to run for the leadership of the federal party, as suggested by the CBC among others, this would indeed be notable. I like her, for the record.

A veteran member of the Ontario Legislature will become the first official candidate for leader of the federal New Democratic Party ( Read more... )

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• Bloomberg notes a slur by a German populist against a non-white soccer player, reports on Sweden's economic boom, Looks at rail investment in India, and notes Southeast Asia is beating out China as a destination for Japanese investment.
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