thePodcast: Special post-election edition - NDP collapse helps keep ESG champion Carney in PMO - theBreaker

thePodcast: Special post-election edition - NDP collapse helps keep ESG champion Carney in PMO - theBreaker

For the week of May 4, 2025: Two guests on this week’s edition of thePodcast, to discuss winners and losers of Canada’s April 28 federal election.  Daniel Westlake, an assistant professor of political studies at the University of Saskatchewan, ponders what is next for the NDP.  Leader Jagmeet Singh resigned after voters abandoned the NDP, en masse, for the Liberals, led by former central banker and Brookfield Asset Management chair Mark Carney. …

Undercurrents of reaction: Carney wins, Cons surge, NDP crashes

While some breathe a sigh of relief at avoiding a Poilievre government, the winnowing of the political contest into a two-corporate-party race across much of Canada contains many troubling undercurrents for the left.