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April 16, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Orange You Glad We're Friends? MONTREAL — NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair may find himself challenged at the next federal election not only by Justin Trudeau, the newly minted Liberal leader, but also, for the first time, by the records of several NDP provincial governments.  Continue reading... LOOK: Trudeau Supporters Mock Harper After Attack Ad Harper Heads To London For Thatcher Funeral Battleground B.C. WATCH: Tories Attack Trudeau's Charity Striptease Twitter Pundits React To Trudeau Attack Ad Trudeau Wins Liberal Leadership With Friends Like These.. WATCH: Tories Attack Trudeau's Charity Striptease WATCH: Tories Attack Trudeau's Charity Striptease Trudeau Wins Liberal Leadership DAVID MCLAUGHLIN Canadians Have Never Been Margaret Thatcher Conservatives Canadian conservatives today cast admiring looks back at the career and accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher. But to her, Canadian conservatives were mostly all wet. Britain was not Canada, then or now. While the mother country's ties still bind, Canadian conservatism is uniquely our own. Continue reading... J.J. MCCULLOUGH Media Bites: Choosing a Party Leader Should Be "Un-Conventional" Nationalization, the belief that the government should occasionally seize control of private enterprise to better serve the "public good," isn't an idea with much traction in Canadian politics these days -- despite the NDP's best efforts. If there's any Canadian industry crying out for nationalization, it's political parties. Unlike General Motors or CIBC, they have literally no reason to exist beyond serving the public interest. We need parties to form governments in our parliamentary system, and they provide the lifeblood of choice in elections. Is there a downside to nationalization? Continue reading... YONI GOLDSTEIN The NDP Are Losers Again Whomever is in charge of event scheduling for the federal New Democrats ought to be fired today -- how in heavens did the NDP wind up holding its all-important policy convention on the same weekend the Liberals were to crown their new leader? Were Christmas eve and day already booked at the convention centre? Continue reading... ELIZABETH MAY What Does Joe Oliver Know About Science? Not Much Attitudes and willful blindness form the basis of federal government policy as expressed by our federal Minister of Natural Resources, and that it is a sign of negligent disregard for the public interest. It is unacceptable. A revealing exchange with the editorial board of La Presse confirms that if Joe Oliver has ever had a science briefing, he wasn't listening. Continue reading... ADAM KINGSMITH 6 Cognitive Biases That Make Politics Irrational These seemingly irrational flaws in judgement can lead to perpetual distortion, inaccurate judgement, and illogical interpretation -- all of which are key ingredients in the widening of cultural rifts, the deepening of global disparity gaps, and the general intensifying of political upheavals. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.