“Canadian Politics”

For dreams to become reality, you first must get elected. That’s going to be a challenge for the NDP’s new leader.

The NDP put its best foot forward at last weekend’s convention, and the opening speech by Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was a highlight.

Deeply experienced and wise, Kinew represents the best of the NDP. He shone in both official languages, very much at ease on his home turf in Winnipeg.

His speech contained a strong message of hope, as one would expect.

Well, as honeymoons go, that was brief.

Avi Lewis may well have set a record for honeymoon brevity in Canadian politics. He wasn’t even done accepting the great prize of winning the leadership of the federal NDP last Sunday before two key figures in his own party denounced him over his resolve to move the country beyond fossil fuels.

Lewis may also have set something of a record for sheer cheerfulness in the face of such speedy backstabbing.

No shortage of media trying to make us believe Avi isn’t a complete commie nutter.

Avi Lewis was elected leader of the New Democrats on Sunday with a smashing first ballot win, inheriting a skeleton of a party. Only six NDP MPs sit in the House of Commons after Nunavut’s Lori Idlout’s recent floorcrossing.

However, this is a time of revived left-wing radicalism in the English-speaking world. Do not dismiss Lewis, as many have. If he plays his cards right, he will not be a punchline for long.

"Third-Worldism" perfectly captures the rising ideology of the left: preference for Islam over feminism, contempt for European colonialism, entitlement to Western riches, infatuation with Islamic nationalism, etc.
A very important piece by @GeoffRuss3:https://t.co/e6RYqoBovO

— Jamie Sarkonak (@sarkonakj) March 31, 2026

You gotta pray Canadians aren’t that dumb. Pray a lot.

Here’s the conventional wisdom: The election of aging nepo-baby Avi Lewis as leader of the federal New Democratic Party is a tipping point that could see a marginal and unpopular party pushed over the edge into non-existence.

Maybe.

But that’s what a lot of people said about the Liberal Party in 2013, when Justin Trudeau became leader.

Newly named NDP leader Avi Lewis promised to bring back the party from the political wilderness after its dismal showing in last year’s federal election.

“The NDP will start winning again because we will become that beacon to the 99 per cent — illuminating the darkening sky of these terrifying times with the energizing light of collectivism,” he said at the convention in Winnipeg on Sunday, after it was announced he had won the months-long leadership contest.

Lewis came out on top of a field of five leadership candidates that included Alberta MP Heather McPherson, union leader Rob Ashton, farmer Tony McQuail and social worker and municipal councillor Tanille Johnston.

Good Lord

A large Palestinian flag is being waved on stage during @avilewis first speech as federal NDP leader. Solidarity forever. ❤️‍🔥🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/CSc8iAmRpi

— Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 (@yipengGe) March 29, 2026

Avi Lewis has won the leadership of the federal NDP at the party’s convention in Winnipeg.

This will be fun he’s an unabashed commie lunatic.

The five candidates vying for the NDP’s leadership into the next election gave one final appeal to members before the party chooses its next leader.

Each candidate was given time at the party’s convention in Winnipeg on Saturday to sway any voters who are still undecided.

The contenders are: MP Heather McPherson, activist and filmmaker Avi Lewis, union leader Rob Ashton, farmer Tony McQuail and social worker and municipal councillor Tanille Johnston.

Avi is so progressive he’s a NAZI!

Avi Lewis Is About to Make Jew-Hate the NDP’s Official Slogan

The NDP will have a new leader by Sunday afternoon — and whoever comes out of the party’s convention in Winnipeg with the top job will be tasked with bringing the party back from a historic low.

Five candidates — MP Heather McPherson, activist and filmmaker Avi Lewis, union leader Rob Ashton, farmer Tony McQuail and social worker and municipal councillor Tanille Johnston — are looking to replace former leader Jagmeet Singh.

The NDP will debate calling for mandatory voting in federal elections at its Winnipeg convention this weekend, a long-shot move that could make Canada the first G7 nation to compel its citizens to hit the polls.

It’s one of 70 policy proposals that grassroots New Democrats will be mulling over when they gather, according to documents obtained by the Star, that include pitches touching on a wide range of issues, from industrial strategy and Donald Trump’s trade war to overhauling the Senate and electoral reform.

Avi Lewis likes neon-sign politics. That was the point of the Leap Manifesto he co-authored more than a decade ago in a bid to prod the NDP to the left. He didn’t propose steps. He wanted a leap.

“We’re challenging decades of political clichés. So we want to spend like drunken sailors,” he said then, in an interview at the 2016 NDP convention. “We need a shift in our sense of what’s politically possible.”

He’s Batshit Crazy.