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.
Organizing Strategy and Tactics
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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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‘Secret’ National Housing Strategy Consultations Exclude Renters
Tenants are pointing out this hypocrisy in Canada’s approach to housing: subsidizing provinces and municipalities without conditions to fund unaffordable private housing developments, while allowing them to destroy existing affordable housing.
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Organizing Tenant Power Across Toronto
The Toronto Tenant Union is organizing across movements to build power and fight for renters rights in the city, and building a model for organizing across Canada.
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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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Social Democrats of the North: Moses Coady, Antigonish Awakening
Moses Coady’s ideas about collectivism and co-operation represented the first real challenge to the conservatism of Nova Scotia’s political culture.
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Suturing Solidarity
Sutures hold together open wounds that would otherwise come apart, while leaving visible the fractures that made their application necessary. This metaphor departs from more conservative formulations of solidarity that privilege cohesion over contestation.
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Organizing Solidarity in Rural Canada
From Terrace, BC, to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canadians have organized themselves in solidarity with Palestine.
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Activists Make History: Winning for Working People with Rob Ashton
The longshoreman and leadership hopeful shares his vision for Canada’s NDP as the party of workers and everyday people.
