October 2015

Nick Taylor-Vaisey (Maclean’s): Two things are obvious about Canada’s election that brought a Liberal government to power. Voter turnout jumped seven per cent to its highest point in a generation. And Liberals won in places they’d…

Elizabeth May (Rabble.ca): We need a stock-taking. A “to-do” list. Some of what the Harper administration broke will be easy to fix; much will be very hard indeed. What we must do is insist the…

Kristy Kirkup (The Canadian Press): As Justin Trudeau prepares to tackle the politics of legalizing pot as part of his Liberal government’s legislative agenda, industry experts say he will have access to a world-class marijuana…

Kathleen Harris (CBC News): They registered in droves and enjoyed record-high spending limits, but did special interest “third-party” groups actually make a difference in the outcome of the federal election? According to Elections Canada, the…

Nancy Macdonald (Maclean’s): In the final weeks of the federal election campaign, Tania Cameron took an unpaid leave from work to devote herself full-time to getting out the Indigenous vote in the sprawling, northwest Ontario riding…

Richard Deschamps (CJAD 800) 20 years after the independence referendum that split Quebecers right down the middle, a new survey from the CROP organization shows support for separation is nowhere close to those levels now. The…

The Canadian Press: A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says there is plenty of room to raise taxes on the richest one per cent of the population and still leave their…

Charles Mandel (National Observer): A new report argues that citizen opposition has successfully stopped or delayed oil sands pipeline infrastructure, effectively halting expansion of the Alberta tar sands. Titled Lockdown: The end of growth in the…

CBC News: Ryan Cleary, the former NDP MP who was defeated in the federal election, has been speaking with the Tories about possibly running for them in the provincial election, sources have told CBC News….

Thomas Walkom (The Toronto Star): Throughout the federal election campaign, Tom Mulcair promised that his New Democrats would balance the budget no matter what. Provincial NDP governments, he boasted, had a proven track record of…