Editorial - NDP stuck in its past

Winnipeg Free Press;  April 18, 2007 ;     527 words ......adapt even innovate, but not Manitoba's NDP, which is so fixated on doing...unimpressive growth that Manitoba has witnessed under the NDP. In fact, Premier Gary Doer...the total benefit paid to Manitobans under NDP policy. At a minimum, the...

Business friendly NDP? Signs say maybe

Winnipeg Free Press;  August 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Tony Blair, but the NDP in Manitoba has never quite...growth under the NDP has been modest...been a feeling that Manitoba has not been nearly...attuned to making Manitoba competitive. Making...culturally very hard. The NDP has not been the party of business. Manitoba's ...

Editorial - The NDP platform

Winnipeg Free Press;  May 18, 2007 ;     452 words ......premier. Everywhere in Manitoba -- in front yards...election signs entreat Manitobans to vote for NDP candidates. But...of 71 per cent in Manitoba. That can't be an...to highlight the NDP's strength -- its...that exceeds even NDP standards of prudence...which rained down on ...

NDP-Liberal teeter-totter will decide election

Winnipeg Free Press;  May 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Conservatives than by Manitoba's small-l liberals...to stay with the NDP the third time around...2003. Centre-left Manitoba's electoral flux...on a centre-left, NDP-Liberal teeter-totter...the University of Manitoba, says there's no...groundswell to replace the NDP but there might ...

NDP attempts to divert attention from its record

Winnipeg Free Press;  November 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......low ratings in rural Manitoba, the provincial NDP is playing politics...compulsory per head levy on Manitoba cattle sales? The NDP government rebuffed...recent actions by the NDP have demonstrated...for, value-added in Manitoba. Not only are they...

Layton struggles with NDP tradition

Winnipeg Free Press;  September 19, 2008 ;     688 words ......this a perfect storm for an NDP breakthrough? NDP surges in support have almost...expense of Liberal collapses. In Manitoba, NDP Premier Gary Doer has been...relying on a particularly weak Manitoba Liberal Party. Back in the early 1990s, the Ontario NDP under Bob Rae was able to ...

NDP missing boat on economy?

Winnipeg Free Press;  May 24, 2007 ;     649 words ......majority victory for Gary Doer's NDP might be the ideal government for business people in Manitoba. That's because the campaign...impression that Doer and the NDP do not even have the economy...on. Unfortunately for the Manitoba business advocates who have...enhance the policies of the ...

Socialist soul-searching; A floundering NDP considers a new direction, a...

The Report Newsmagazine;  September 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Party under Ed Broadbent led the national polls. Today the NDP has been relegated to the where are they now? file, along...mocking their party, at least they care enough to mock. The NDP is generally ignored, so it is reconsidering why and whether it should exist. The NDP has 13 seats in the Commons, ...

NDP bill crosses line from bad to awful

Winnipeg Free Press;  May 28, 2008 ;     700 words ......now? Gary Doer's NDP, as Official Opposition...1995, described Manitoba's groundbreaking...of ridicule the NDP heaped on Manitoba's balanced budget...policy to awful and Manitobans deserve better. Who's laughing now? The NDP government and the...

Doer offers campaign tips to national NDP summit

Winnipeg Free Press;  January 15, 2008 ;     533 words ......As the most successful NDP premier in Manitoba history, and the only NDP premier left in office...side. Doing so, said the Manitoba leader, would make the NDP the "only multi-dimensional...Doer has positioned the Manitoba NDP to the centre. He has...

Get bold or fold, Martin tells NDP

Winnipeg Free Press;  March 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of Parliament from Manitoba is warning. Pat Martin...forced to admit the NDP may never be anything...political results, the NDP could be forced to...the 95,000-member Manitoba Federation of Labour...the University of Manitoba, said Martin is...and death for the NDP," he said. "But ...

Conservatives top NDP in 2006 fundraising

Winnipeg Free Press;  August 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......By Mia Rabson THE Manitoba Tories won the political...than the governing NDP. In fact 2006 was...filed with Elections Manitoba, the PC Party of Manitoba brought in $1,033...investment income. The NDP in 2006 earned...year before. The Manitoba Liberal Party was...Michael Balagus, ...

Tories appear to be closing gap with NDP

Winnipeg Free Press;  October 15, 2007 ;     471 words ...By Kevin Rollason MANITOBA Tories, still licking...with the governing NDP, while the Liberals...the 48 per cent the NDP and the 38 per cent...The poll of 1,002 Manitoba adults was conducted...overwhelming support of the NDP by women have dissipated...said. University of Manitoba ...

Poll shows race deadlocked...and that means NDP will win

Winnipeg Free Press;  March 17, 2007 ;     483 words ......Inc. poll, surveying 1,000 Manitoba adults between Feb. 28 and March 13, found the NDP and Progressive Conservative...support, with 44 per cent of Manitobans earning more than $60,000...Tories, while 41 per cent of Manitobans earning $30,000 to $59,000 support the NDP. The more education ...

Just call them the Progressives; As the NDP and Tories look for new...

The Report Newsmagazine;  August 12, 2002 ;     686 words ......the unequivocally left-wing NDP. And his 40% vote in the PC...possibility of an alliance between the NDP and PCs is not that far-fetched...PC governments federally and NDP governments provincially. Former...candidate Brian Pallister, now a Manitoba Alliance MP, believes that even...Bill Blaikie ...