convention
How should Andrew Scheer talk to Canadians?
John Geddes in Halifax: The Tory leader faces two routes: Fight ideological battles or focus on deliverables. He might be best telling his own story.
The case of the union sponsorships
Joanna Smith reports that the NDP returned $344,468 after the Conservatives complained about union sponsorships at the NDP’s 2011 convention in Vancouver.
Towards Stornoway: The Topp campaign
In this week’s print edition—on newsstands tomorrow—John Geddes and I co-author a few thousand words on the NDP leadership race. The piece is based on numerous interviews with those in and around the campaign and hopefully provides some insight into what happened and why. Unfortunately (or fortunately), we ended up with way more material than could be squeezed into the magazine. So that such testimony and explanation doesn’t disappear into my computer’s harddrive, I’m going to detail much of what I have here.
‘This malicious, massive, orchestrated attempt to thwart democracy’
Scytl Canada, the company that conducted the NDP’s online voting, explains what happened this weekend.
The Layton legacy
The four videos that were part of Friday night’s tribute.
Mulcair v. Mansbridge
The new leader of the opposition’s first national English-language interview last night.
The latest delay
The NDP has confirmed that the latest delay in voting, as with the last delay, resulted from overwhelmed servers. The issue has apparently been traced to two IP addresses and the party will be investigating in the days ahead. Voting will close at 9pm EST and results will be announced shortly thereafter.
What now?
It’s fairly simple. Brian Topp needs approximately 75% of Nathan Cullen’s supporters to move to him or Thomas Mulcair is the next leader of the NDP.
Despite the denial
Total turnout on the third ballot was 62,736. That’s an improvement of 242 votes.
‘They’ve jammed up the lines’
Brad Lavigne, principal secretary to NDP leader Nycole Turmel, has spoken with reporters to explain what occurred this afternoon.
An attack?
The Globe reports that the NDP is investigating the “the possibility of an attack” as an explanation for the technical issues this afternoon.
Settle in
Amid various technical issues, third-ballot voting will now remain open until 5:40pm EST. Assuming there’s a fourth ballot to follow, it’s going to be awhile yet.