US EditionNDP convention begins in Winnipeg as members prepare to pick new leader
Delegates debate policy and vote to choose a leader to rebuild the NDP after its worst federal election, with membership growing nearly 70% during the race, party says.
- New Democrats are gathering in Winnipeg for the New Democratic Party convention, where members will select a new federal leader by Sunday.
- The leadership contest follows the NDP's worst election result since its 1961 founding, which reduced the party to seven seats and prompted leader Jagmeet Singh's resignation.
- Five candidates—union leader Rob Ashton, social worker Tanille Johnston, filmmaker Avi Lewis, Alberta MP Heather McPherson, and farmer Tony McQuail—are vying for the top job with platforms emphasizing housing, climate action, and electoral reform.
- Recent Angus Reid Institute polling suggests the NDP struggles with relevance; 44 per cent of past NDP voters do not recognize the names of the current candidates.
- Voting in the six-month race closes tomorrow, with the new leader announced Sunday, tasked with the "hard slogging" of reintroducing the party to voters, Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute, said.
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Canada’s NDP to pick new leader one year after election debacle
Whatever their tactical disagreements, all of the candidates for the NDP leadership are staunch defenders of Canadian capitalism and its state, inveterate opponents of class struggle and determined to contain and neuter social opposition by shackling it to the pro-employer trade unions and parliamentary-electoral politics.
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New Democrats gather in Winnipeg to pick new leader, plot path out of political exile
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Wab Kinew's advice for the next NDP leader: 'Win'
OTTAWA — Manitoba NDP premier and hometown boy Wab Kinew had a pithy message for the next leader of the federal NDP when delivering opening remarks at the party’s national convention in Winnipeg. “(To) the leadership candidates, my best piece of advice: win,” said Kinew. “It’s way better than the alternative.” Kinew said that winning a majority government in the fall 2023 provincial election empowered his Manitoba NDP to pursue a bold, progressi…
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