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From the magazine

From this week’s print edition, the inside story of the NDP campaign, as reported by John Geddes and I.

The last thing anyone expected from Thomas Mulcair in the race for the NDP leadership was a charm offensive. Sharp debating skills, sure. Divisive messaging, more than likely. But the Quebec MP routinely characterized as a tough customer was hardly thought likely to better his rivals in a contest of interpersonal skills. Yet there he was on the last Saturday of January, a couple of weeks before the watershed point when his dominance of the campaign became clear, winning a potential key new backer over breakfast at Halifax’s venerable Victory Arms Pub.

I’ve got a bit more from my notebook that I’ll post here next week. My notes on the Topp campaign are here.

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