Editorial – Summer 2025
The Canadian left needs confidence, a feeling of trust and certainty in self and in others, to restart from scratch and learn to use this hyperpolitical moment.
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The Ground Game Is Not Enough, The NDP Needs Courage
Without a sufficient air game (and more importantly, its delivery of a campaign offer), it is difficult to see how a continued overreliance on the ground game will lead to electoral success.
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Requiem for the Waffle?
The dormant Waffle may have been re-awakened, but its dreams for a sovereign, socialist Canada face new 21st century challenges.
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League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual Foundations of the Canadian Left
Building the kind of mass intellectual institution like the LSR is necessary to provide a cohesive intellectual and ideological basis for organizing, and to shape discourses and develop the leadership needed to win.
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Social Democrats of the North: Frank Calder, Living in Two Worlds
As the first status Indigenous person to be elected at either the federal or provincial level in Canada, Frank Calder used his position to advocate for a modern, comprehensive land claims policy to facilitate the negotiation and claims process.
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Social Democrats of the North: M.J. Coldwell, From the Prairies to Parliament
CCF Leader M.J. Coldwell fought in Parliament to establish unemployment insurance and old age pensions.
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New Leader, Same NDP?
“I look forward to the day, when socialist governments and policy prevail across Canada, to say, ‘yes, it happened in our lifetime.'”
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Editorial — From the Ashes? | Special Issue – Winter 2026
The politics of the centre are no match for the challenges that face humanity. We do, it seems, face a choice between socialism or barbarism.
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2025 Federal Election Assessments and Observations
The still elusive goal of winning federal power notwithstanding, the CCF-NDP has persisted across the decades because social democracy has continued to hold profound appeal among millions of Canadians.
