Nails It Again
With the Mulcair NDP and the Harper Conservative ground so clearly staked, Liberals now have a unique opportunity to define the vital center without kowtowing to the left or the…
Liberal Renewal
Did Warren Kinsella Just Shoot Our Foot?
I like Kinsella on a general scale, but if you need proof that the man operates outside the bounds of normal, sane practices that will help the Liberals in the…
Nails It
From the day resigned in 1984 to today, the Liberal Party has never developed a new and cogent framework for what it believes in. In her book “Divided Loyalties”, Brooke…
Party of Principle
While Peter C. Newman has been getting headlines with his diagnosis that the Liberal Party is dead, Andrew Coyne offers his recipe for resurrection here. While I generally agree with…
A Roadmap to Renewal
The Liberal Roadmap to Renewal has been released and can be read here. There are several longer drafts floating around I've put on my weekend reading list, but at 80-100…
Oh LPC Exec, How You Fill Me With Hope
If you haven't yet read "A Roadmap to Renewal," the document laid out and published by the National Board, you need to. Because it's important, it's intelligent, and above all,…
Open Primaries – A Primer
With all the discussion and talk about the Liberal Party of Canada moving towards a primary system, and most of the talk being on the so-called "open primary" model, I…
Why the The Leadership Needs the Power to Appoint Candidates
Evil IncarnateOf all the proposals I've heard floating around so far to change how democracy is done within the Liberal Party, the question of taking away a leader's power to…
Note on the eventual Toronto-Danforth by-election…
I agree with something posted awhile back by Globe and Mail columnist Robert Silver, that the upcoming by-election is a chance to do something different - specifically, the attempt at…
Liberal Renewal
There was a lot of ink spilled about Liberal rebuilding in the wake of the May 2nd shellacking - both among pundits and party members. Although much of that talk…
"We have to be a national party"
As I mentioned earlier, Mark Holland gave a real barn burner at the ALP convention the weekend before last.What made it such a great speech was that he avoided the…
Liberals and Greens
Hello. I am Teddy. I am the admin of Riding by Riding, and, a new contributor to this blog. I am a liberal. I've always been a liberal. The problem…
The Death of Liberal Canada
At least, according to respected author Peter C. Newman, is just about what we saw happening over the last few years, and Michael Ignatieff was simply the unlucky soul to…
Renewal
There has been a lot of talk about Liberal Party renewal since election night. Which is encouraging - after a punch to gut like that, it's easy to give up,…