Reading Time: 3 minutes It can continue to pursue fiscal prudence or follow other provinces that are plagued by chronic shortfalls and ongoing budgetary challenges
Tag: NDP
Best and worst political stories and personalities of 2017
Reading Time: 4 minutes From Trudeau to Scheer, from human piñata Morneau to lightweight Joly, from the Aga Khan to #MeToo
Upstart party could turn Alberta politics on its head
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Alberta Party hopes to slip into the great divide between the polarized left and right with big-tent policies free of the old PC baggage
Notley’s use of ‘mansplaining’ slurs all men
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Alberta premier really shouldn’t be touted as a role model for young girls
Wab Kinew proof that Manitoba can work for everyone
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fact that an Indigenous person is now the leader of Manitoba’s main opposition party, and a possible Premier, is very good news
New NDP government puts B.C. finances back on shaky ground
Reading Time: 3 minutes The B.C. government has sent a troubling signal that big spending, tax increases and deficits are back as the prevailing fiscal policies
The Canadian multicultural community’s growing political muscle
Reading Time: 3 minutes By electing Jagmeet Singh as their new leader, the federal NDP have signalled that they understand the escalating importance of inclusivity
B.C. budget abandons any hope for efficient carbon tax
Reading Time: 3 minutes Subsidizing green projects with revenue from carbon taxes may be politically popular but it’s fundamentally misguided policy
Who will NDP members pick as their next leader?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Four distinct candidates offer very different views on how socialism and social democracy will evolve in Canada
B.C.’s new government heads for a familiar debt trap
Reading Time: 3 minutes The New Democrats offer up a significant and impressive list of expenditures, with no clear plan how it will pay for them