Floor-Crossing vs. Party-Democracy
To minimize floor-crossing episodes, mass parties can leverage existing political institutions to make Canada’s democracy more deliberative and participatory.
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Newfoundland’s First Mass Party
There are many lessons for today’s labour organizers and social democrats to learn from the FPU as a mass party, such as its deep entrenchment within struggling working-class communities, and the alternative economic and financial institutions it built.
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A New Democratic Approach for the NDP
There is an opportunity for the New Democratic Party of Canada and its provincial wings to renew their democratic vision, bringing it to the forefront of changing how public policy is made by embracing deeper public learning and deliberation.
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Ed Broadbent’s Lessons for Rebuilding Today’s NDP
The task of the NDP is to find ways to add to, rather than supplant, its traditional working-class base.
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Neighbourhood (Food) Democracy: Supporting Participation of Equity-Denied Groups in Addressing the Issue That Affects Them
A Vancouver study on ‘Neighbourhood Food Democracy’ created place-based opportunities for knowledge co-creation, community empowerment and setting an agenda for social change.
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The Digital Oligarchy: Surveillance, Tech Giants, and the Future of Human Rights
Canadians are right to be concerned about corporate control of data, algorithmically worsening inequality, and the role of tech companies in disempowering workers.
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How Mis/Disinformation is Driving Alberta to the Right, Part 1: Understanding the Origins
Misinformation and disinformation are polarizing Alberta politics, stoking division and a reactionary shift to the right.
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From Marketing to Movement-Building: Ground Game and Community Organizing in Party Politics
It’s been said that “the ground game can only take you so far”. But what if the right kind of ground game can count for more than we realize?
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Why all Canadians Need Decommodified Reproductive Healthcare
In Canada, reproductive healthcare is deeply commodified, affecting access to resources from contraception to fertility treatments. Canadians tend to pride themselves on being “better” than their southern neighbours, but in this instance, being better is not good enough.
