{"id":566544,"date":"2026-03-28T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:32:13","slug":"ndp-leadership-candidates-to-make-their-final-pitch-to-voters-at-winnipeg-convention-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566544\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP leadership candidates to make their final pitch to voters at Winnipeg convention \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 The NDP leadership candidates are making their last pitch to party members before voting in the six-month campaign concludes later today.<\/p>\n

Each of the five candidates will have time at the convention this morning to outline their vision for party leadership.<\/p>\n

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

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNDP leadership candidates (left to right) Tanille Johnston, Avi Lewis, Tony McQuail, Heather McPherson and Rob Ashton, and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) Bea Bruske, pose for a family photo ahead of the NDP Leadership forum in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Spencer Colby<\/p>\n

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

The next NDP leader will be announced Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles is scheduled to address the convention today, after Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew opened the gathering on Friday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 28, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 The NDP leadership candidates are making their last pitch to party members before voting in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-566544","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\/566544","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=566544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}