Desmond Cole, acclaimed author and journalist at The Breach, sits down with host Jessa McLean to clear the air and contrast their positions around Yves Engler's campaign and the NDP's decision to block him.

While disagreeing on a substantive amount of items, they still manage to find common ground - moving through conversations on vetting, insurgent campaigns, the legitimacy of tactics and more, in a productive way.

Related Episodes:

• Why They Came for Me (Nov 2022), Host Jessa McLean shares her journey through partisan politics, why the NDP is trying to silence her, and how this is part of a larger pattern to push out socialists and internal advocates.
• Candidate Crisis (June 2022), how the Ontario blew an election by blocking candidates and meddling in the local nomination processes.
• People's Party? (July 2022), Discussions with current and former NDP Party Executives proves quite revealing, demonstrating that like most politics in Canada, very few people are calling all the shots.

More Resources:

• Vetting Correspondence via Yves Engler for NDP
• Referenced Breach Podcast: Who can take the NDP leftward?
• NDP leadership committee rejects Yves Engler’s candidacy application - rabble.ca

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