Peter Armstrong didn’t get everything he paid for in Vancouver’s municipal election.
Armstrong, President of the Non-Partisan Association and founder of the Rocky Mountaineer, poured in $470,000…
It’s sometimes hard not to be despondent about electoral politics.
In Toronto, the years-long surreality TV show known as the Ford brothers was finally defeated, only to be replaced by John …
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” – Antonio Gramsci.
These words from the Italian revolutionary’s Prison Notebooks are on the sign …
Maybe Kirk LaPointe and his team with the Non-Partisan Association are Seinfeld fans, because so far theirs has been a campaign about nothing.
The NPA, the traditional party of Vancouver’s …
In the 2008 municipal election, Gregor Robertson swept into the Mayor’s office on a promise to eliminate homelessness in Vancouver.
The issue was the centrepiece of his campaign, even though …
Instead of going to back-to-school this month, BC students and parents are getting a lesson in class struggle. They are the collateral damage of Premier Christy Clark’s BC Liberal government and …
This past weekend in Ottawa, thousands of activists from all across Canada participated in the Peoples Social Forum.
With little more than a year until the next federal election, much of the talk …
Tom Mulcair with NDP candidate Joe Cressy, who lost the Trinity-Spadina riding in last week’s byelection. | Photo courtesy of Joe …
Summer in the city. This weekend, I got offline and out with the family to …
When it comes to Vancouver’s crisis of housing affordability, our city’s municipal politicians are better at making excuses than at taking action.
As I’ve noted previously in this space, …