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“We should all be fighting together and standing together”: Mark Gruchy
An interview with the 2016 N.L. Human Rights Award recipient.
Justin Brake
December 15, 2016
# NDP
To Each Their Own
The Liberals’ new Independent Patronage Commission
An independent appointments commission, as it's currently proposed, will do more to mask existing problems than actually solve them.
Rhea Rollmann
May 29, 2016
News
Residents take anti-austerity fight to streets of St. John’s
Province-wide, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are concerned and angry about the devastating consequences the Dwight Ball Government's austerity budget will have on the most vulnerable people…
Justin Brake
April 17, 2016
Uncategorized
Mulcair’s exit is an opportunity, not a solution
The federal NDP has voted to replace Thomas Mulcair, creating an opportunity to elect a bolder, more charismatic leader that could lift the party to…
Joshua Keep
April 11, 2016
News
“This is a crisis”: Mental health and the 2015 Election
How the parties plan to address the province's mental health and addiction crisis.
Justin Brake
November 29, 2015
Uncategorized
Where a radical spirit can begin again
The N.L. NDP may not be the radical revolutionaries many progressives in this province would like to see, but the party's new leader and election…
Joshua Keep
November 21, 2015
Deadmonton Dispatches
I can see Cleary now the sane is gone
Ryan Cleary's problem isn't that he has no political principles. It's that he's principled to the point of pathology.
Drew Brown
November 4, 2015
Uncategorized
Why the NDP lost the election
It wasn't the Liberals' and New Democrats' apparent ideological shifts that resulted in #elxn42's red wave, but a return to the left could turn things…
Joshua Keep
October 25, 2015
News
Neoliberalism is destroying Canada: Former NDP leader
Ed Finn, Newfoundland's first NDP leader, sat down with The Independent to discuss the biggest challenge facing Canada today -- the one nobody's talking about…
Justin Brake
October 14, 2015
Politically Speaking
Please don’t take us for fools
With election campaigns officially and unofficially in full swing, voters are bearing witness to a multitude of promises from politicians. We’re also seeing a rising…
Shannon Reardon
August 27, 2015
Letters
Tories and Liberals are out of chances
"Canada can move toward a 'brave new world' in the 21st century with the election of an NDP Government, one that I believe will be…
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August 25, 2015
Politically Speaking
The orange wave swells again
With mere months to go until the federal and provincial elections, the New Democratic Party is enjoying a resurgence at both levels. Can they maintain,…
Shannon Reardon
July 3, 2015
Deadmonton Dispatches
After Alberta
The NDP victory in last week's Alberta election shook that province and the country. But what does it mean for the federal NDP and the…
Drew Brown
May 13, 2015
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