{"id":566448,"date":"2026-03-28T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566448\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:31:09","slug":"ndp-leadership-candidates-to-make-their-final-pitch-to-voters-at-winnipeg-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566448\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP leadership candidates to make their final pitch to voters at Winnipeg convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 The NDP leadership candidates are making their last pitch to party members before voting in the six-month campaign concludes later today.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the five candidates will have time at the convention this morning to outline their vision for party leadership.<\/p>\n<p>While there is a voting booth at the Winnipeg convention, voting opened earlier this month and many members have already cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s roughly 100,000 members will pick the new leader through a ranked ballot system, where the first candidate to get more than 50 per cent support is the winner.<\/p>\n<p>The next NDP leader will be announced Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles is scheduled to address the convention today, after Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew opened the gathering on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>David Baxter, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 The NDP leadership candidates are making their last pitch to party members before voting in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-566448","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\/566448","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=566448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}