Sleipnir

Hurtful? Yes. Racist? No.

I really don't see how it was racist to make those comments. I mean, it not like he was saying 'aboriginal people are diseased' or anything.

Theory conspriacist are going to have a field day with this one.

I cannot tell if the Tories are serious or not with that attack ad.

Do you even know what it means to be a communist, or are you just stereoptying?

Sorry typo, I mean 1900s not 1990s.

Pure coincidence or suspicious?

You really don't know much about canadian politics. In the early to mid 1900s the CCF and NDP fought hard to expell communists from unions across canada and from within the party.In fact, the fighting went as far as the communist party partnering with the Federal Liberals during the election in the early 1990s. The purpose of the communist-liberal partnership was to beat the CCF into submission. Why did the Liberals joined the communist? To avoid the left wing party from stealing votes from the center oriented party. Why were the communist fighting the CCF? Because they believe the party betrayed the marxist values. Keep in mind that CCF were more left wing than the modern NDP. If my post seems weird it because I'm texting this.

CBC is wrong, the new preamble is to number of things: 1) updating the wording from the 20th to the 21st century. 2) clarifying the summary of the party, previously it was a few sentences blurb. The NDP are still center-left.

I agree - looking at some of the meme seems the author of the article is blowing it out of proportion.

No. They're currently being trained by the very workers that are being fired.

Whether you loved her or hate her, at the end of the day she's still a human that fought for what she believed was right for the country at that time.

"Margaret Thatcher, one of the most important British politicians of the 20th century, died Monday morning after suffering a stroke. She was 87. Thatcher was the first woman to become U.K. prime minister and Britain's only prime minister of the 20th century to win three consecutive terms. After leading the Conservatives to victory in the 1979 election, Thatcher shook Britain to its economic roots in a relentless battle to restructure the country." Regardless of political stripes, It sad to see another icon leave us soon after Ralph Klein, but I guess that's the circle of life. How do you remember her? Or what do you remember her for?

If your community is of few dozen and isolated in the middle of nowhere, how can you honestly expect to have any reasonable economic activity? Yelling at the mining, forestry, agricultural or hydro companies aren't gonna cut it.

How many people are attending the Liberal Leadership Convention? As of Thursday night the party officials sold 225 tickets. Contrast that with the NDP who sold 4,600 tickets. The Liberal party now has nearly 38,000 paying membership, up from 33,000 earlier this year.* http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/05/liberal-leadership-showcase-tickets_n_3018938.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-politics *source is from a different website

You really don't understand Canadian politics.

Maybe he's really a fall guy?

It called a 'honeymoon' event.

All Trudea's really been doing is repeating 'feel-good' mantra without any concrete policies so I can't see him ruling with an iron fist.

I don't think the NDP membership ever reached 300,000, has it?

It seems to me that people are throwing data and graphs around without really understanding them.

Here's something interesting. During the NDP leadership race - there were almost 130,000 card carrying membership that were able to vote. Only half of them bothered to vote - 75,000 Contrast that with the Liberals who has only 33,000 card carrying membership. Therefore you might expect only 16,000 or 20,000 Liberal card-carrying members to actually vote in the leadership process. It really shows you how much the Liberal party has collapsed over the last 2 decades. From a strong 500,000 card carrying membership to a measly 33,000. In fact, the liberal membership after the 2011 election was about 55,000 - they lost 22,000 card-carrying members since then.