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Building the orange wave : the inside story behind the historic rise of Jack Layton and the NDP
The author's account of how Jack Layton and his inner circle developed and executed a plan that turned a struggling political party, the NDP, into a major contender for government defying the odds and the critics.
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Riding the Orange Wave: Leadership, Values, Issues, and the 2011 Canadian Election
The results of the 2011 Canadian federal election were surprising. What accounts for the dramatic and largely unexpected shift in electoral fortunes? Most importantly, what accounts for the sudden leap in popularity of the New Democratic Party, particularly in Quebec? The aftermath of election day produced no lack of potential explanations. Pundits, politicians, and political scientists have suggested many. This paper examines the empirical validity of various explanations swirling about the 2011 election, especially regarding the “orange surge.” The analysis relies upon the 2011 Canadian Election Study and the content of news media coverage. It concludes that the most important factors behind the orange wave were the image gap between Jack Layton and the other party leaders, as well as the proximity between the NDP's values and issue positions and those of many Quebeckers.
Résumé. Le résultat de l'élection fédérale canadienne de 2011 a été surprenant. Comment expliquer les renversements dramatiques et largement inattendus dans les appuis aux partis politiques? Surtout, comment expliquer le bond soudain de popularité du Nouveau parti démocratique, particulièrement au Québec? Plusieurs explications potentielles ont été suggérées par les commentateurs, les politiciens et les politologues au lendemain de l'élection. Cet article examine la validité empirique de nombreuses explications entourant l'élection de 2011, notamment celles portant sur la « vague orange ». L'analyse repose sur l'Étude électorale canadienne de 2011 ainsi que sur le contenu de la couverture médiatique. Elle indique que les facteurs les plus importants à l'origine de la vague orange ont été l'écart entre l'image de Jack Layton et celle des autres chefs de partis, de même que la proximité entre le NPD et plusieurs Québécois quant aux valeurs et aux enjeux.
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Reprise
Article History: Received 9/11/2017; Revised 9/15/2017; Accepted 9/15/2017; Published 27/1 1/2017 In this issue of Cultural Studies Review, Sean Sturm considers Ruth Barcan's book, Academic Life and Labour in the New University: Hope and Other Choices, in which she describes the contemporary university as a 'a palimpsest: a scholarly community, a bureaucracy and a transnational corporation'.1 It would seem that academic journals might be similarly palimpsestic. [...]articles in refereed journals are subject to relentless systems of quantification which both measure individual productivity and are fed into metrics of aggregation which, in turn, are harvested to produce rankings which are then key marketing messages for the promotion of particular corporate entities. Michael Richardson writes about the complex relationships between political speechwriters and speechmakers, drawing on his own experience of writing from Jack Layton, former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, and a number of other prominent examples.
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Middle March and Beyond
Activist poet/playwright Penn Kemp is London's inaugural Poet Laureate, with twenty-six books of poetry/ drama and ten cds. As Western's Writer-in-Residence, she produced Luminous Entrance: Sound Opera for Climate Change Action (dvd). She hosts Gathering Voices, Radio Western. Quattro Books published Jack Layton: Art in Action, which she edited.
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Ghosting Politics: Speechwriters, speechmakers and the (Re)crafting of identity
Despite public awareness of their role, speechwriters occupy an anxiously liminal position within the political process. As the ongoing dispute between former Australian prime minister Paul Keating and Don Watson over the Redfern Speech suggests, the authorship and ownership of speeches can be a fraught proposition, no matter the professional codes. Crafting and re-crafting identity places speechwriter and speechmaker in a relation of intense intimacy, one in which neither party may be comfortable and from which both may well emerge changed. Having written speeches for Jack Layton, former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, I know just how complex, uncertain and productive that relation can be. This article conceives of identity as transindividual, formed in the intensity and flux of encounter, and weaves together the personal and the critical to examine politics' speechwriting ghost.
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ETHNIC MEDIA IN CANADA: THE POWER OF REFLECTION; A LINK TO NATION BUILDING AND IDENTITY
For subsequent generations, continuity provided by comprehension of the mother tongue and cultural traditions leads to reaffirmation of ethnic identity. Today as a twice monthly online publication, it enjoys a North America-wide circulation among Icelandic communities, as well as having the reputation of being Canada's oldest surviving ethnic newspaper. The emergence and evolution of multicultural media serving marginalized communities in Canada has been a challenged journey fraught with casualties, but also transformed by champions - one illustration being the weekly newspaper The Provincial Freeman, first published in Windsor, Ont., on March 24, 1854 by Mary Ann ShaddCarey, at a time when many fugitive slaves from the United states had settled in Ontario.
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New Democrats propose dedicated long-term care transfer payment to provinces
\"Leading up to the 2014 renegotiation of the health accord, New Democrats will work with the provinces and territories to increase access to a basic level of quality non-profit home care services across the country by enshrining home care within the Canada Health Act,\" the New Democrats state, adding that they will also \"work with the provinces and territories to extend Medicare to include residential longterm care, with federal funding tied to legislated standards, including Canada Health Act criteria and conditions.\"
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