Politics, Re-Spun

The sun was up today in a cloudless Vancouver sky to welcome the BC NDP Convention. It has been an inspiring morning checking in with developments with the YND convention and the Women’s Caucus meeting. ...

Gary Mason’s Friday piece in the Globe and Mail has some recommendations for the BC NDP to improve its effectiveness. When you review the 7 main points in the Think Forward BC NDP consensus document, there is some strong convergence. Read them here, then review some of Mason’s points: 1. Ta...

11.26.09 Defining Ourselves as a Party With convention starting tomorrow, we are on the eve of defining a new culture of the BC NDP. Lots of people think everything is find in the party, that people calling for reform are navel gazers who don’t understand that the real enemy is the Liberal party. ...

Internal party democracy matters. Despite the fact that it exists in the constitution, it is not functioning well. And if democracy isn’t working, it doesn’t really matter that there are democratic structures in the party. A ...

Yesterday I wrote about a number of popular reasons why people believe the NDP isn’t government right now. Here they are again. Below are my ideas about how to address these things, my goals in running for a Vice-President position in the BC NDP. ...

We didn’t lose the election. The Liberals didn’t win it either. We failed to win it. Th...

I had this amazing daydream a few weeks after we failed to win the election last May...

There was a profound summer lightning storm on Saturday, July 25, 2009, about 10 weeks after the election. Starting late in the afternoon Vancouver got soaked by a torrent of rain and a storm that circled the lower mainland counter-clockwise and competed with the fireworks that night...

Since 8:35pm on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, I’ve been thinking hard about the state of the BC NDP. By that time of evening on election day, it was clear that there were profound problems in with the party. ...

The BC NDP needs to be the electoral wing of a progressive social movement throughout BC. In the 21st century it’s not politicians and parties that get elected but clear values and active communities. ...

Agents provocateurs were outed at the FTAA protest in Montebello in August 2007. I expect they’re at it again in BC on the first day of the Olympic torch relay, this time with marbles. ...

The consumer uproar has been eye-opening for SIGG CEO Steve Wasik. He thought going green just meant being good to the earth; he didn’t realize it meant fessing up too. “Being a green company also means being held to the highest degree of corporate transparency,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I f...

When I try to infer the mental state of some politicians from what they say publicly, I can only conclude that they must think we’re too profoundly stupid that we’d not be able to think for 3 seconds to realize that they are full of shit. Let’s look at Kevin Falcon and Gregor Robertson. Heal...

I have been away from updating my editorials for several weeks now as I’ve been working hard on Think Forward BC NDP. What is Think Forward BC NDP? Well, the party is in a transition moment. It lost the election on May 12, 2009. A few thousand votes in key ridings would have meant a win. ...