The Federal NDP has chosen their new leader in a shift further left. Avi Lewis is the third generation of his family to lead an NDP party.
His wife, Naomi Klein, is probably much better known as she has been a successful author and speaker on anti-capitalist and environmental themes.
I expect she will continue to be the better known half of the couple as the NDP has little profile these days.
She’s a very good writer. Surprised she didn’t run herself but maybe she’s better behind the scenes.
I’m guessing some of his ancestors spoke French.
IFYP/JCTM
Probably. The Rousseaus were one of the original French families inhabiting Quebec. If his surname had been Cooke or Smith I might have been a bit more sympathetic.
Two days later his dad has died.
I met Stephen Lewis some years ago after he had left politics and devoted his life to humanitarian endeavours. Incredible orator and great Canadian. RIP Stephen.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-lewis-obituary-9.7148606
Recordbreaking amounts of illegal drugs are entering Canada from the US but it is the trickle of drugs the other way that Trump condemns.
“Canadian border guards are seizing the highest quantities of illegal narcotics in years, including a sizable increase of cocaine, much of it entering Canada by way of the United States – a sign that drugs continue to move easily through that country, despite promises to the contrary by the Donald Trumpadministration.
Canada intercepted more cocaine in the first nine months of the 2025-2026 fiscal year – 3.7 tonnes – than in any full year since at least 2018, the latest for which Canada Border Services Agency maintains enforcement action records on its website”
Argument in Alberta that first nation treaties wouldn’t follow a province leaving Canada and so make it even harder for a province to leave, which would impact Quebec too.
Sadly, Canada has already abrogated some of those treaties by declining to adhere to the indigenous peoples portions of Jay Treaty (albeit with the admittedly understandable justification that US’s declaration of war in 1812 voided the treaty).
Per the Jay Treaty, I should be able to cross the border and work on both sides of the border with just my tribal ID card.
oof. that’s not going to go well in the US. Yet the article says he got a standing ovation from Canadians.
This guy is also moments away from a majority government, which gives him carte Blanche for the next 3 years.
I have no problem with letting the US know that there are financial consequences for them for the economic war they have been waging on Canada. It is also good to remind the US, given we are in trade negotiations, that trade is a two way street.
Doug Ford is looking to take over some local governments?
He’s already taken over some school boards.
Yes, yes he is. And it’s impacting me directly, locally in the small rural community I live in.
Two things going on. First, he’s implemented the ability to shortcircuit local councils (i.e mayors and councillors) on their decisions on land use. Someone wants to build a factory there, the mayor votes no? Sorry, the province says yes.
Secondly, there are larger regional level councils. The councils are made up of elected people, andin our local case, the local mayors. So the local mayors and a few elected people get together and make decisions on a regional level. Not perfect, I guess, it sort of works, could probably be better.
Ford moving in the direction of overruling the regional level councils.
Case in point. about a mile from where I live is a highway, going through farmland. The region did some shenanigans to expropriate land to collect 700 acres of farmland for business purposes. The idea is we need large blocks of land to attract manufacturing and the like. You can imagine there’s a lot of outcry, forcing 3rd gen farmers out oftheir homes. Quite a mess. And what Ford’s doing now ties into all of that, they can just come in and steamroll locals to do and use stuff that the province wants.
Despite all the disruption, I get that there’s a point to this - we need manufacturing, so we need land for manufacturing, so stuff has to get done and that’s what the gov’t is doing. But it’s either displaying quite a big set of cajones to do it this way, or there’s better ways to do it. I dunno. I feel like this is bad methodology.
I’m not sure Carney being seen as a wartime leader is the biggest cause. I think it’s a combination of him being seen as an old school Canadian conservative and very economically prudent (and a great leader), combined with a push from the current political party as being one full of anger and fundamentalists. If you’re an old school Canadian conservative, youd want to run from the conservative party right now. and if you were picking a conservative party blind, you’d end up with carney.
There’s still lots of hippy liberals in the liberal party, my.local rep is one. but Carney is no Trudeau.
