#45 Will Ontario Ever Have a Truly Left-Wing Party?
Allison and Jonathan talk with Jacobin’s Luke Savage about why the NDP so often provokes indifference, while its American and British counterparts sometimes seem poised to spark revolution. Might a new leader succeed where Andrea Horwath did not?
Plus: The Premier’s new cabinet offers unprecedented representation by members of the Ford family. Because it’s 2022.
Allison Smith
Co-host, Wag the Doug
Jonathan Goldsbie
News Editor
Kevin Sexton
Producer
Hosted by Allison Smith and Jonathan Goldsbie
Savage’s new book, The Dead Center, is available for pre-order here.
With his polls diving, housing minister resigning, and ill-begotten Greenbelt scheme unravelling, what’s a Doug Ford to do? Why, talk about anything else, of course!
This month, Allison and Jonathan peer into Ford’s parallel fixations on law enforcement and cookies. To him, there isn’t a problem that one or the other (or both) can’t solve.