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The Lewis’s and the NDP

ByDoug Anderson Canada, Politics

And Me

Doug Anderson

April 5

Tommy Douglas at the founding convention of the New Democratic Party

I was in Grade 11 in 1960 when a new student arrived fresh off the boat from England. His father had been an organizer for the Labour Party in England and he was being imported to help build a ”New Party” here in Canada by an amalgamation of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) with the Canadian Labour Congress. His son was a good organizer too and Tim talked up the new party and enthused many of his classmates including myself. The next year I attended the founding convention of the Ontario NDP youth wing.

As the long time National Secretary of the CCF starting in 1936, and National Chairman and then President in the 1950s, David Lewis was instrumental in that process. David was born in Russia in 1909 and emigrated to Canada … More

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Is Carney a conservative?

ByDoug Anderson Canada, Government Policy, Personality, Politics

Why would the Ontario NDP Deputy Leader join the federal Liberals?

Doug Anderson

Feb 15, 2026

The media has changed since I was the publisher of the local newspaper – that was in the 1990s before the internet and social media. It used to be that the vast majority of journalists worked for media outlets such a newspapers, radio and TV and while those enterprises may have had a point of view and may have put more emphasis on some stories than others, generally there were standards – truth was important and sources needed to be checked.

But that has changed- newspapers began to consolidate into conglomerates and their owners began to control the tone of their papers – some stories got emphasis, others were suppressed or even eliminated. Many are now exclusively on line where readers can select the stories they want and ignore the rest. In some cases … More