New Democrats will vote Saturday to choose the person who will succeed Jack Layton and lead the Official Opposition against Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Seven candidates remain, with the first ...

NDP Leader Jack Layton insists both he and his party's fortunes will be healthy enough for a federal election campaign —should one be triggered. Ottawa is abuzz with speculation Canadians could soon ...

A book of condolences has been set up at Hudson city hall to allow area residents to offer their sympathy to the family of Jack Layton. Layton, the New Democratic Party leader who was raised in Hudson ...

August 25. After a face-to-face meeting with Harper in Ottawa last week, Layton told reporters the NDP would be the "least likely" of political parties to support the Conservatives in office "because ...

Jack Layton’s family will be in his hometown of Hudson to lay some of his ashes and plant a memorial tree at the family’s cemetery plot. The New Democratic Party leader died Aug.22 of cancer. He was ...