Massive Win for Democracy in the Liberal Party of Canada
Democracy is coming At our last convention our party decided to throw the doors open to Canadians by inviting them to join as non-member Supporters and to vote for our…
Democracy is coming At our last convention our party decided to throw the doors open to Canadians by inviting them to join as non-member Supporters and to vote for our…
There are three primary lessons from this Convention. First, the Liberal Party of Canada is well on the way to a renewal that will stun Stephen Harper (who believes he…
I have not always agreed with Mr Apps on how things were run during his presidency (especially on the ruling that to me seemed to deprive any member who wanted…
I would like to recommend that attendees at our convention pass two revolutions which are aimed at empowering Liberal Party members and supporters. The two resolutions are: AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY…
The list of proposed amendments to the LPC Constitution has been released. There is a disconnect between the statements in the Roadmap to Renewal and the background paper regarding the…
On June 30, 2013, we will look back over the past 18 months are realize that the month of November in the year 2011 showed the high tide of one…
Liberals will meet in Ottawa in January to debate the values underpinning the Party. So far, there are two documents which Liberal attendees can review to decide this question: the…
The media has been buzzing with talk about the Roadmap to Renewal and supporting documents, and Liberal circles are also astir. This quick summary gives you the gist of the…
In an article in the Globe & Mail headed The heart of reason, and the reason of the heart, Janice Gross Stein reviews Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.…
What you can do to help: The Roadmap is a positive step forward (with a few wrinkles), but is deficient in boldness in remedying the democratic deficit in our party.…
John Ibbitson is the latest to weigh in on the Liberal Roadmap to Renewal, with the advice that those who don’t like the proposed changes should shut up and vote…
Two leadership races of enormous consequence are taking place in Canada right now: the overt race to select a new leader to replace Jack Layton, and the covert race to…
Just spent some time reading through the accompany (non-official) document released with the Roadmap, and came across some really jarring notes.They have really taken the gloss off the Roadmap for…
Lost among all the attention paid to the proposed selection of the next leader of the party through a revolutionary made-in-Canada primary process is a potion whose magical properties will…
The devil is in the details, and Peter Wrightwater of the blog Paper Dynamite Online has just unearthed a major defect in the Liberal Primary Election plan which could have…