Avi Lewis wins NDP leadership race with clear majority Avi Lewis won a clear majority in the ranked ballot leadership vote.

Lewis received 56.4 per cent of the vote. #ndp2026 #NDPLeadership2026
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Leadership candidates give last pitch on day two of NDP convention With less than 24 hours before the final vote, candidates made a pitch to the few NDP convention delegates who had yet to cast their ballot.

On day 2 of the NDP convention, each leadership candidate took to the stage for one last pitch to delegates. #ndp2026 #NDPleadership2026
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NDP 2026 convention opens with message of hope and a wake up call The federal NDP 2026 convention opened on Friday, March 27 in Winnipeg with an opening address from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew.

rabble's coverage of the opening speeches of the 2026 NDP convention. #NDPleadership2026 #NDPconvention2026
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The 2026 NDP leadership convention is about to start and rabble is on-site ready to report the results of the convention and the leadership race #NDPLeadership2026

ADAMS: The NDP Finally Had a REAL Debate. Here’s Who Won and Who Lost. For the first time in this interminable leadership race, we saw something that actually resembled a contest of ideas. It only took four attempts.

The NDP had a debate where the candidates finally stopped the performative consensus. My take on who won, who lost, and why Avi Lewis still can't escape the fringe. Hint: The surprise candidate changes everything. #CDNpoli #NDPLeadership2026

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NDP leadership race heats up after first real debate, with Tanille Johnston emerging as the surprise performer, writes analyst Will Adams. Avi Lewis praised as top communicator but criticized for “fringe” rhetoric. Heather McPherson, Tony McQuail falter. #CDNpoli #NDPLeadership2026

EXCLUSIVE: A Leap Union Organizer Speaks Out, But Doesn’t Answer the Key Question A former staffer and union leader comes forward to defend Avi Lewis, but his account leaves the investigation's core mystery unsolved.

The man who led The Leap's union drive says Avi Lewis "fully supported" workers. But he still won't explain why nine months passed with no bargaining, or why The Breach launched non-union.

If Lewis is a champion of labour, why won't his own record hold up? #CDNpoli #NDPLeadership2026

“Union busting is the opposite of what it means to be a New Democrat.” Heather McPherson didn't know the Avi Lewis situation, but made it crystal clear: this is a “really, really big problem for any candidate.” Said with the fury the base expects. #CDNpoli #NDPLeadership2026

During the post-debate scrum, @rob.ashton.ndp didn't mince words about The Provincial Times' union-busting investigation surrounding Avi Lewis: “Any type of union busting is quite honestly bullshit.”

A union leader drawing a clear line. #CDNpoli #NDPLeadership2026

After the debate, Avi Lewis called the union-busting allegations against him an “ugly low blow” and called the investigation by The Provincial Times a “hit piece” with “zero truth.” Says Leap was “thrilled” when workers unionized, but ignored the lack of an agreement. #CDNpoli #NDPLeadership2026

Read my take on why the NDP still hasn't come to terms with its loss. Clinging to excuses won't win elections. Canadians want accountability and real solutions. It's time for a clear progressive alternative to Mark Carney's Liberals that delivers results. #CDNpoli #NDPLeadership2026

ADAMS: I Went to an Yves Engler Rally. Here's What Surprised Me. Yves Engler's rally was honest. And that's exactly the problem

I went to Yves Engler's rally in Toronto. What I saw wasn't an NDP campaign, but a very specific strain of the radical left: hostile to the party, unserious on nuclear, tolerant of authoritarian apologetics, and detached from electoral reality. #CDNpoli #NDPLeadership2026

A cluster of Yves Engler campaign posters taped to a surface, featuring a stylized illustration of Engler with slogans reading “Drop debt, not bombs” and “End Canada’s role in Gaza genocide.”

An indoor event space with rows of seated attendees facing a screen that reads “Yves Engler for NDP Leader,” while a speaker stands at the front addressing the room.

A speaker stands at a podium in front of a bright yellow banner reading “NDP Socialist Caucus,” speaking into a microphone in a small indoor venue.

Yves Engler, holding a microphone, gestures with his raised hand while speaking in front of an NDP Socialist Caucus banner and a display of his campaign posters.

Here are the remaining photos from Yves Engler's Toronto event. I'll be writing two op-eds: one on what was actually said in the room, and one on where I land on Engler's politics. Engagement isn't endorsement. Scrutiny isn't hostility. That distinction matters. #CDNpoli #NDPLeadership2026

ADAMS: NDP Leadership Race Crashes and Burns in Montreal Billed as a majority French-language debate, the Montreal event delivered barely any French, banned its only French socialist candidate, and proved the NDP is more interested in optics than fixing its...

Just published: my take on the 2026 New Democratic Party leadership “debate,” a bilingual farce masquerading as renewal. If a national party can't even respect our two official languages or confront its own failures, it deserves serious reckoning, not quiet rebranding. #NDPLeadership2026 #CDNpoli 🇨🇦

That's a wrap for our @ndp.ca leadership debate coverage for the night.

Stay tuned for more from @aidanjraynor.bsky.social and @fa-beauchemin.bsky.social on what the candidates had to say on postsecondary education, pipelines, right to repair and the future of the NDP.

#NDPLeadership2026 #NDP

NDP Leadership Debate: Post-Debate Scrums – November 27, 2025 NDP leadership candidates speak with reporters in Montreal after participating in the first of two leadership debates. (no interpretation)

Watch the post-debate scrums with the candidates:

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“If the unions and their members don’t believe we can win, don’t believe we can deliver on the promises they’re making or the ideas that we have, they will vote strategically,” said @tonymcquailndp.bsky.social, advocating for electoral reform.

@ndp.ca #NDPLeadership2026 #TonyMcQuail #MontrealDebate

“I know how to win. I know how to beat Conservatives," said @heathermcpherson.bsky.social, the only NDP MP running for the leadership. "I am eager to take the lessons that I have learned winning the strongest seat in the NDP and use those lessons across the country.”

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Only one candidate proposed bold policies at the NDP leadership forum The CLC-sponsored NDP leadership forum focused largely on the candidates’ biographies and personalities.

The CLC-sponsored NDP leadership forum focused largely on the candidates’ biographies and personalities. But one candidate did try to shake things up by putting some bold ideas on the table. #NDPLeadership2026
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