{"id":486795,"date":"2026-02-20T03:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486795\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:58:12","slug":"how-to-watch-the-final-ndp-leadership-debate-on-cbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486795\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the final NDP leadership debate on CBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The five federal NDP leadership candidates are meeting in New Westminster, B.C., Thursday night for the final debate before the party selects its new leader.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates vying for the leadership are Rob Ashton, Tanille Johnston, Avi Lewis, Heather McPherson and Tony McQuail. <\/p>\n<p>You can watch the final debate on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cbc.ca\/9.7096374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBCNews.ca<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gem.cbc.ca\/live-event\/58998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBC Gem<\/a>, the CBC News app or the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uy6_gTsUH4A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBC News YouTube page<\/a>. It starts at 8 p.m. ET and is scheduled for 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The debate will highlight seven key themes: the economy, the future and role of the party, rebuilding the party, foreign affairs, the environment, health care and public services.<\/p>\n<p>Party members will select a new leader next month. Voting opens March 9 and the winner will be announced at the party&#8217;s convention in Winnipeg on March 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-486795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}