NDP

The 2025 federal election for the NDP was an unmitigated disaster. They lost all but seven of their twenty-four MP’s, they lost their leader, Jagmeet Singh, and they lost official party status in Parliament. Unsatisfied with those results, the NDP will now try to reduce that number from seven MP’s to zero, or so it seems.

Having faced an extinction-level event and just barely survived, the NDP desperately needed the summer recess to reevaluate their strategy and come up with a plan to reconnect with voters, pick a new leader, and chart a course to rebuild their party.

OTTAWA — Prospective federal NDP leadership candidates will have to raise $100,000 and amass 500 signatures from members — most of which cannot come from cisgender men — to be officially in the running, according to rules that were released on Tuesday.

With the NDP leadership race now underway, candidates who are hoping to succeed Jagmeet Singh should be making themselves known in short order. The winner will be announced in Winnipeg as part of the party’s national convention on March 29, 2026.

The NDP is a Hate Group.

It is very hard to overstate how disastrous the leadership of Jagmeet Singh was for Canada’s NDP. I really don’t mean to be cruel or cheap more than four months since the April election campaign by kicking a former leader and party while it is down, but it really is astonishing how thoroughly Mr. Singh cratered almost every aspect of the party during his 7.5 years of leadership.

Last week, it was reported that Edmonton Member of Parliament Heather McPherson and twice defeated (with third place finishes) activist Avi Lewis are preparing their campaigns to lead the NDP. The signature collecting, team building, fundraising is all underway apparently. It will be a short-ish leadership race from now through to March 29 in Winnipeg, but the party has been cracked and hobbled so badly that the selection of a new leader is the easiest part of the challenges they face.

Former NDP staffer Cam Holmstrom says New Democrats need a moderate leader who can ‘counterbalance’ the further-left bent of the party and speak to Canadians’ everyday issues.

A defeated NDP means labour, progressive movements have to ‘fill that void,’ says CUPE head Hancock

In the wake of a weakened NDP, progressive groups and labour movements need to be louder in their push back against Prime Minister Mark Carney, says Canadian Union of Public Employees national president Mark Hancock, and one national progressive movement is taking up the call, protesting what one organizer is calling the “very dangerous expansion of Trump-like policies in Canada.”

OTTAWA — Edmonton MP Heather McPherson and Vancouver activist Avi Lewis are gearing up to launch NDP leadership bids, the Star has learned, as the party’s high-stakes race to replace Jagmeet Singh gets set to begin next week.

The two contenders, who are both well-known in NDP circles, have submitted applications to run as candidates and their teams are now collecting required nomination signatures from New Democrats across the country, including at Ottawa’s Pride parade this past weekend, said three sources with knowledge of the situation but who requested anonymity to discuss confidential matters.

Avi is gonna have to really up his “Anti-Zionist” game if he hopes to score against Pallie McPherson.

Yves Engler, a Montreal-based writer and activist, exemplifies troubling tendencies toward moral inversion and selective memory in discussions of genocides. As he gains prominence — particularly through his bid for the federal NDP leadership — it is essential to scrutinize his approach to historical atrocities and understand what this reveals about his ethics.

I hope he wins and then declares himself NDP Party Overlord for life.

For the New Democratic Party of Canada, the disastrous Jagmeet Singh era came to a merciful end in the last federal election. Reduced to an embarrassing seven seats and denied official party status, the NDP technically holds the balance of power in the House of Commons as it has the ability to help bring down Mark Carney’s Liberal minority government. The reality, though, is that the NDP is in no position to force an election.

Let’s see. You are a member of the NDP’s national organizing committee. Your party has just been creamed in a national election, reduced in the House of Commons to seven members out of 343 members. In fact, for the purposes of parliamentary proceedings, you’re not even a ‘recognized party’ any more.

Your last leader lost his seat (if not his pension) and has gone home to BC where Conservatives hope he will reincarnate himself as an advisor to BC’s NDP government…

The NDP is one of the oldest parties in the country, and it may disappear before the next general election. The 2025 electoral trouncing reduced their seat count in the House of Commons to seven, cost it party status, and led to the resignation of its leader. It’s the financial fallout from the election that may spell the end of the party altogether, though.

The NDP had already been juggling its finances due to soft donor support before the 2025 general election. The party borrowed $22 million to contest the 2021 election and only managed to pay that debt off in February 2024. With little in the bank heading into the 2025 election, the party borrowed deeply again for the campaign. Much of the 2021 debt was paid down due to a campaign rebate coming from taxpayers applying to every riding where the party garnered more than 10 percent of the vote. In the 2025 election, voters in fewer than 50 ridings gave the NDP more than 10 percent support. This has left the party in dire financial straits.

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests most Canadians are unfamiliar with nine possible NDP leadership contenders.

A majority of respondents to the Research Co. poll said they “don’t know who the person is” when asked about possible candidates like current NDP MPs Leah Gazan, Gord Johns, Jenny Kwan and Heather McPherson.

Grassroots NDP group calls on party faithful to redirect donations to local riding associations

A group of NDP organizers and former MPs are asking supporters to redirect donations from the central party to local riding associations, saying hundreds of ridings cannot get rebates on campaign expenses due to the New Democrats’ dismal 2025 federal election performance.

“This election, Canadians showed that the NDP feels out of reach as a viable political option,” the group — called Reclaim Canada’s NDP — said in a press release sent out Saturday afternoon.

Asked last month whether he was planning to join Israel in attacking Iran, US President Donald Trump said “I may do it. I may not do it. Nobody knows what I’m going to do”.

He let the world believe he had agreed a two-week pause to allow Iran to resume negotiations. And then he bombed anyway.

A pattern is emerging: The most predictable thing about Trump is his unpredictability. He changes his mind. He contradicts himself. He is inconsistent.

“[Trump] has put together a highly centralised policy-making operation, arguably the most centralised, at least in the area of foreign policy, since Richard Nixon,” says Peter Trubowitz, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.

The NDP will rise again

@fancypants_s Speak of the devil… https://t.co/QYGAA0CpYf

— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 4, 2025

h/t Patti Jo