{"id":939820,"date":"2026-10-20T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939820\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:20:09","slug":"absolutely-we-have-a-shot-ndp-leader-avi-lewis-eyes-upcoming-montreal-area-byelections-the-hill-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939820\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Absolutely, we have a shot\u2019: NDP Leader Avi Lewis eyes upcoming Montreal-area byelections\u00a0 &#8211; The Hill Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NDP Leader Avi Lewis says he thinks his party has a chance at nabbing seats in two yet-to-be-called Quebec byelections whose provincial ridings elected progressive Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire candidates in the province&#8217;s recent election, with one seat having been held by a former NDP &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To keep reading, subscribe and become a political insider.<a id=\"subLinkStoryPage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/get-a-subscription\/\" style=\"cursor: pointer;float: left; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif !important;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a> Only $7.76 a week for an annual subscription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; font-weight: 600!important;  margin-top: 20px; float: left; width: 100%;  padding:; margin: 0; color: #252525;\"> Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; color: #000; margin: 0; float: left; font-weight: 900 !important; width: 100%;  padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0;\"> Cancel anytime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NDP Leader Avi Lewis says he thinks his party has a chance at nabbing seats in two yet-to-be-called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-939820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939820","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=939820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}