Ford government brings back bills to tackle encampments, badly-behaved councillors

O nce the conscience of Canadian politics and a genuine alternative to the Liberal–Conservative duopoly, the New Democratic Party finds itself adrift. With the loss of the NDP’s official party status, the appointment of backbencher Don Davies as interim leader wasn’t just a placeholder move while the party regroups. It marks the culmination of a decade-long identity crisis, and a warning that the NDP may be entering terminal decline. Jagmeet Singh’s party’s supply and confidence agreement with the Trudeau Liberals, which traded policy concessions for support for Liberals, won it...