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Who knew the NDP could be sexy? Last weekend’s convention was raunchy, and what happened in Edmonton won’t stay in Edmonton.

First, the good news: Thomas Mulcair finally got some ink following his post-election coma; unfortunately it was spilled describing how the NDP pulled the plug on his lifeless body. By “winning” 48 per cent support, Mulcair has made himself the new dictionary definition of “unaware”.

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And the bad: the NDP also endorsed — by not discarding it outright — the so-called “Leap” manifesto. I’d do it the courtesy of calling it the longest suicide note in history but that moniker is already taken and the NDP is already dead.

A big part of the problem for the NDP proletariat was that Mulcair wasn’t sufficiently comradely, and so he’s now free to hold down a centre ground no Dipper wants on an interim basis until the NDP finds a leader they think can do better. That’s assuming they want to do better. Where have you gone, Mr. Svend Robinson? A party turns its lonely — yet principled — eyes to you.