ANALYSIS | From taboo to tactic: How strategic voting could shake up this election

ANALYSIS | From taboo to tactic: How strategic voting could shake up this election

Strategic voting, once a taboo for New Democrats, is resurfacing as party faithfuls — including Tom Mulcair and a former top aide to ex-premier Rachel Notley — openly talk about voting Liberal to stop a Conservative win.

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West of Centre is a weekly podcast about the priorities, preoccupations and politics of Canadians living in the West. Listen here or wherever you find your podcasts. Alvin Finkel still remembers the day he was kicked out of the NDP. The lifelong New Democrat from Edmonton had been running a website during Alberta’s 2012 provincial election to consolidate progressive votes behind certain Liberal, NDP and Alberta Party candidates. His hope was tha…