{"id":562559,"date":"2026-03-26T18:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562559\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:04:08","slug":"new-democrats-to-debate-fossil-fuel-crackdown-electoral-reform-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562559\/","title":{"rendered":"New Democrats to debate fossil fuel crackdown, electoral reform in Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774548248_885_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The NDP leadership debate stage is photographed in Montreal on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christopher Katsarov<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 26, 2026 | 9:54 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 New Democrats are set to debate up to 70 policy proposals at their convention in Winnipeg this weekend on a host of issues, including clean energy, electoral reform and the party\u2019s own political strategy.<\/p>\n<p>They include proposals to \u201cvigorously oppose\u201d any expansion of oil tanker traffic on B.C.\u2019s northern coast, to work toward eliminating fossil fuel-generated electricity and to end the party\u2019s opposition to expanding nuclear infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Party members will also debate proposals on electoral reform and boosting voter turnout, including pitches to make election day a federal holiday and instituting mandatory voting.<\/p>\n<p>After the party saw its worst-ever election outcome last year, its officials and leadership candidates have been pushing to move toward year-round political organizing to improve campaign readiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NDP leadership debate stage is photographed in Montreal on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christopher Katsarov&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-562559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562559","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=562559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}