{"id":563999,"date":"2026-03-27T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563999\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:08:08","slug":"ndp-convention-begins-in-winnipeg-as-members-prepare-to-pick-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563999\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP convention begins in Winnipeg as members prepare to pick new leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 New Democrats from across the country are gathering in Winnipeg for the party\u2019s convention, where a new federal party leader will be chosen by the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>After a six-month leadership race, voting closes on Saturday and the new leader will be announced Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates are union leader Rob Ashton, social worker Tanille Johnston, filmmaker Avi Lewis, Alberta MP Heather McPherson and farmer Tony McQuail.<\/p>\n<p>The new leader\u2019s main job will be to lead the process of rebuilding the NDP after the party suffered its worst ever election result last year.<\/p>\n<p>This is the party\u2019s first policy convention since 2023 and delegates in Winnipeg will debate a host of resolutions on energy policy, electoral reform and affordability, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is scheduled to address the convention early this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 27, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>David Baxter, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 New Democrats from across the country are gathering in Winnipeg for the party\u2019s convention, where a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-563999","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\/563999","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=563999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}