Staring once more into the NDP’s soul
Tag Archives: Gerald Caplan
What Jack Layton left
Gerald Caplan considers the late NDP leader’s legacy.
‘An ornament to any Parliament’
Gerald Caplan revisits last month’s odd revisiting of J.S. Woodsworth’s vote against World War II.
For and against Mulcair
Ed Broadbent talks to the Globe about Thomas Mulcair.
What now?
While Gerald Caplan details his outrage, Paul Koring raises new questions about this country’s treatment of Abousfian Abdelrazik. Last month, Ben Peterson raised a question that may soon be operative here too: should we consider prosecuting any Canadian officials complicit in torture?
Julian West’s recurring nightmare
Gerald Caplan clearly hasn’t been keeping up with his naked news, as Colby Cosh notes over at the National Post. “Somehow or other, some women in BC recalled [ousted NDP candidate] Julian West’s cavorting nude—12 years ago,” Caplan wrote on The Globe and Mail‘s website. (Those women were teenagers, incidentally.) “I guess it made a lasting impression on them, and obviously it was an amazingly stupid stunt for Mr. West to have pulled. But 12 years ago? And was this worse than Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s verbal idiocies, not to mention his failure to properly regulate meat products? … The world’s not a fair place.”