NDP leadership

Paul Wells: The NDP was born from the hope that things can change and in Jagmeet Singh it has picked the young, optimistic outsider

The new NDP leader hinted at his attack plan against Trudeau, and talked about his pitch to Quebecers, and getting by in these supposedly tough times

As the NDP gets ready to pick Tom Mulcair’s successor, Lewis sees real left-wing ideas ‘submerged’

The young Ontario MPP has generated buzz since he came on the scene, including comparisons to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau.

Evan Solomon and Tim Powers talk about the simmering Conservative leadership race—and the even quieter contest to lead the NDP.

Many NDP insiders want Mulcair to step aside. But is there anyone to replace him?

John Geddes on the NDP leader’s rise through the ruthless world of Quebec politics to become the PM’s toughest opponent yet

Alice Funke reviews the detailed results of the NDP leadership vote.

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

Pitting renewal against tradition, it’s a win for change

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.

Scytl Canada, the company that conducted the NDP’s online voting, explains what happened this weekend.