Edmonton senior with dementia missing, last seen at University of Alberta Hospital

Earlier this year, I renewed my membership in the New Democratic Party of Canada in anticipation of the party’s coming leadership race and its convention in Winnipeg early next year. I’ve voted in two so far (2012 and 2017), and this one feels particularly important. Having been reduced to just seven seats and only 6.29 percent of the popular vote in last April’s federal election—the worst showing for both the NDP and its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, since the latter’s founding in 1932—the next few years potentially represent a make-or-break moment for Canada’s...