{"id":568911,"date":"2026-03-29T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568911\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:02:10","slug":"avi-lewis-is-the-new-ndp-leader-in-first-ballot-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568911\/","title":{"rendered":"Avi Lewis is the new NDP leader in first ballot victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 Filmmaker Avi Lewis has been elected as the NDP\u2019s new leader defeating his four rivals on the first ballot with nearly 40,000 votes. <\/p>\n<p>This victory signals a shift toward the party pushing big, unabashedly left-wing policies like government owned and operated grocery stores as grassroots pushed for change after a devastating election result last year. <\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s chief electoral officer says there were nearly 71,000 votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta MP Heather McPherson placed second with just shy of 21,000 votes, followed by social worker Tanille Johnston, union leader Rob Ashton and farmer Tony McQuail. <\/p>\n<p>Lewis begins his speech with a call for unity in the party, brining his leadership rivals on stage along with the NDP caucus as they all hug it out. <\/p>\n<p>Lewis has said that he is not in a rush to enter the House of Commons and plans on starting his leadership by strengthening the grassroots before seeking elected office. <\/p>\n<p>This story by The Canadian Press was first published on March 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>David Baxter, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 Filmmaker Avi Lewis has been elected as the NDP\u2019s new leader defeating his four rivals on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-568911","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\/568911","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=568911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}