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Avi Lewis Statement on Jack Layton's Anniversary https://www.ndp.ca/news/avi-lewis-statement-jack-laytons-anniversary #NDP #cdnpoli #bcpoli #democraticsocialism
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Wab Kinew says we should not return to the table, but rather "duke it out for two more years." (see 6:49). Hopefully Carney has learned and doesn't go crawling back to Trump.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@kevinrns/117146588774286640
Send this to your friends who might help remind Canadian governments that they are handcuffed and spied on by invading techbros.
American techbro companies locked Europeans who dont obey Trump, out of their software. Handcuffs.
Will Ford lose his email? Is Microsoft reading Carney's emails?
Spread widely. America has changed.
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‘Data centres use an immense amount of electricity and water, yet Mark Carney continues to allow for their expansion in Canada without regard to the environmental consequences.’ by Linda McQuaig #cdnpoli #bcpoli #climate #tech #NDP
https://rabble.ca/columnists/will-carney-take-on-tech-billionaires-to-save-the-planet-so-far-no/ -
NDP feels momentum growing in run up to Beaches-East York by-election
by Nick Seebruch August 20, 2026
Shannon Devine is running for the NDP in the Beaches-East York federal by-election and says that her campaign is receiving strong positive feedback from the residents in that riding
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The main beneficiaries of dark money from what I've observed are the #NDP and Liberals during the current by-elections.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 "The Prime Minister was right to walk away from the negotiating table last night. I believe Canadians are united in this crucial moment, on this crucial point: no deal is better than a bad deal.
“Accepting a deal that would lock in pointless, destructive tariffs and undermine our ability to regulate big tech would have been disastro us for our workers, industries and sovereignty. PM Carney read the room by rejecting the Americans’ offer.”
#NDP. Leader Avi Lewis
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‘Governing New Democrats Retake Lead in British Columbia’ https://researchco.ca/2026/08/18/bcpoli-aug2026/
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@serge The Opposition should follow the line I suggest in my third post, supporting the decision by the PM to break off negotiations, but criticising the steps he proposes to take now. It would work for the #CPC and the #NDP.
They could even argue that part of the reason for the bad deal this week was because #MarkCarney made too many concessions over the past year.
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Statement from @avilewis leader of the #NDP on trade talks.
"The Prime Minister was right to walk away from the negotiating table last night. I believe Canadians are united in this crucial moment, on this crucial point: no deal is better than a bad deal.
Accepting a deal that would lock in pointless, destructive tariffs and undermine our ability to regulate big tech would have been disastrous for our workers, industries and sovereignty. PM Carney read the room by rejecting the Americans’ offer.
Wab Kinew got it exactly right — the President is weak and cannot be trusted to abide by an agreement. We should stand firm, knowing it’s what the vast majority of Canadians want our government to do.
But what happens next matters. We are not out of this yet.
You can count on New Democrats to be a voice for swift and substantial aid to affected workers and industries. This is also a moment to rapidly transition to an economy that is more independent, that prioritizes housing, health, climate and the cost of living.
What brings us together and makes us strong is how we take care of each other in hard times. That’s the Canada the NDP will fight for in this crisis moment and those to come."
https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-reaction-suspension-us-canada-trade-talks
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BC Hydro quietly subsidizing Telus AI infrastructure with a $90 Million substation upgrade... they don't actually *say* it.. but good on the reporter for noting it!
"Mount Pleasant is also where Telus is building a large new AI data centre, expected to come online later this year.”
#AI #BCHydro #BCPoli #NDP #electricity
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/08/21/bc-hydro-spending-90-million-to-upgrade-vancouver-substation/ -
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew: “I think we should fight (…). I think Donald Trump is very weak. I think America is weaker around the world today than it was a year ago.“
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Whether it's legal depends on whether they refrain from impersonation, and whether any content constitutes libel.
The solution is for @avilewis to publish better information, using terms Canadians are likely to search for, and telling stories Canadians are more likely to share. As a first necessary step, he and his team are overdue to stop having avilewis.ca redirect to his nomination campaign site, and immediately make it a site with far more specific information, tailored to the general election, candidly addressing everything Canadians who aren't already #NDP supporters or didn't already support #AviLewis would want to know about him.
Google, Bing, and the average Canadian voter sharing stuff on social media must be made to find that site far more relevant than the Rebel News smear site.
The profile about him on the party website is necessary but grossly insufficient. Every topic addressed on the Rebel News website, the Lewis team must cover on avilewis.ca with better information, in voter-friendly language. There are two groups to whom the language must be tailored:
- The blue/orange voter, including many unionized industry and trades workers in rural ridings. Most of them don't get any of the social justice issues, and have no patience for the performative grandstanding of the Liberal party, whom they see (accurately) as disingenuous elitist snobs. Explicitly diffuse divide-and-conquer bullshit by it calling that (euphemizing "bullshit" though, to avoid offending the fragile sensibilities of group 2, below). Tell of why Avi cares about issues the blue-collar types care about: not by talking at them, but by showing him listening to an learning from them, and reflecting back their concerns in practical language, tied back to economic and life (food, housing, transportation, healthcare, etc.) concerns. Examples abound from successful #WFP and #DSA campaigns to our south. (Example: see AOC listening to former Trump supporters about the data centre polluting their well water, and bringing jars of that water to Congress.)
- The reluctant Liberal voter, who was afraid of splitting the vote and letting our wannabe-Trump take power, who'd normally be swayed by a socially progressive message. To avoid alienating the privilege-unaware, in denial about their unconscious prejudices, in group 1, use dog-whistle social justice language: Show Avi understanding these issues and communicating about them without the trigger words Rebel News and CTV and other rightist media have tied to fabricated phobias and thought-stopping clichés. (Example: review Wab Kinew addressing social justice issues effectively as matters of human dignity, without alienating too many white rural blue-collar working-class voters through academic equity language that's often counterproductively misunderstood.)
Regarding group 2: Dog-whistle politics works in the inverse. A liberal arts postgrad understands, due to systemically prejudicially sustained demographic correlation, that when you speak of a rigged system or corporate greed, you by implication speak of white privilege, but the former, unlike the latter, doesn't alienate the blue/orange white working class. When you speaking of having "a fair shot," you indicate equity and inclusion, without using words rightist media has turned into trigger words. Similarly, "postcode discrimination" implies systemic racism (because demographics cluster geographically), and "working families" implies marginalized communities (because dual-income or single-parent households are usually marginalized by class, identity, or both).
Drinking water puts Indigenous reserves in the same political side as rural farmers downstream of coal mines. Broader messages of dignity and infrastructure, likewise. Housing security—particularly, homes for people, not for corporate speculators—puts the rural industrial worker on the same side as the new Canadian of colour who barely survived the state-sanction labour trafficking industry that was our immigration policy under Trudeau. Right-to-repair and right-to-own puts the prairie farmer the same camp as the hyphenated Canadian computer technician in Toronto. Expanding healthcare training puts the rural citizen whose hospital was closed, or downgraded to an "urgent and primary care centre" with limited hours, in the same camp as the urban citizen whose hospital is constantly overloaded.
Show Avi hearing voters' stories, listening, empathizing, and validating their anxiety or frustration, and promising to do all he can to help (while not making commitments beyond capabilities). Cut together similar stories from groups on opposite sides of divide-and-conquer lines, interleaving Indigenous and white, rural and urban, blue collar and white collar, without spelling out that you're doing so: show, don't tell. Never correct the voter's language. Empathize, reframe in your reflection while validating the underlying concern, and edit out the most offensive word choices with the appearance of an edit for brevity, not censorship. Use visual, tangible metaphors ("kitchen tables," not "discourses"). And target the oligarch, not the neighbour, as the bad guy.
After telling these stories, showing the common ground and common interests, create events to literally bring people together across those divides: Per Irvin Staub, create occasions designed specifically to inculcate positive intergroup contact. Have leaders from each group ready to facilitate and ensure exactly this outcome. Do something usefully pro-social—something practical, not merely symbolic—at each these events. Build houses. Fix infrastructure. Grow food. Start tutoring groups and fundraisers to get people from both groups into the same healthcare and trades classes. When people start cross-identifying, the divide-and-conquer strategy start backfiring against its perpetrators.
Instead of speaking of decentring, perform it: have Avi literally off-centre (in frame) and figuratively off-centre too, being the one who brings together those whom he previously listened separately, facilitating, and demonstrating servant leadership.
At local events, without committing a verbal analogue of Trudeau's costumes—”How do you do, fellow kids”—consider some code switching to the speak those with whom one's speaking (e.g., more academic or overtly social justice focused in a Students' Union event at a liberal arts campus), within limits of avoiding anything that, taken out of that context, can be used against you in other audiences. (Cory Doctorow)[@pluralistic] talks have some good examples: talking differently about the same topics to hacker conferences, gamers, and PC builders than to government officials, university faculty, and mainstream journalists.
If the real Avi Lewis website becomes more truthful, more informative, more interesting, and most importantly, more emotionally resonant, the smear site will get pushed down in search engine rankings and social media news feeds.
Meanwhile, of course: remind everyone that the Rebel News is owned and controlled by a rich corporate CEO, and backed in large part by ideologically driven wealth funds, including a lot of foreign oligarch money. American oligarchs such as the multi-billionaire Mercer family are major funders, as well as American oligarch-funded think tanks like the Middle East Forum. Ezra Levant is thus not only rich, but serving the interests of the super-rich, including foreign oligarchs: he is not on his viewers' side. He's part of the oligarchs' divide-and-conquer strategy: exactly the strategy Avi would be opposing, because it's exactly what he'll have been showing is the real cause of all the problems those oligarchs would have Canadians erroneously blame on their neighbours.
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Rebel news is at it again.
I wanted to reach NDP Leader Avi Lewis via email, so searched for his email address. At the very top of the list comes avilewis . com, a totally fake website full to the brim with the most outrageous lies and horrendous fabrications about Lewis and his policies.
And it’s run by Rebel News.
How is this allowed?
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#AI data centres have become an issue in the 3 upcoming provincial by-elections in #Ontario on September 3rd.
This specifically affects the constituencies of Hamilton East - Stoney Creek and Scarborough Southwest
The Ontario NDP is calling for a "pause" on all data centre construction.
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They were not "wiped out". It's simply that the burden of proof for claims of a benefit to the environment were lessened.
Previously, an entity making such claims faced "the requirement for environmental claims to be supported by an internationally recognized methodology" {1} within the Competition Act. This requirement was removed in 2025. But, green washing is still listed in the Act {2} as a deceptive marketing practice subject to review, the burden of proof for such a claim now simply "lies on the person making the representation". Thus, the case the NDP is making is based on statements made from Carney himself.
From the Competition Act, PART VII.1
Deceptive Marketing Practices
Reviewable MattersMisrepresentations to public
74.01 (1) A person engages in reviewable conduct who, for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, [..] any business interest, by any means whatever,
[..]
(b.2) makes a representation to the public with respect to the benefits of a business or business activity for protecting or restoring the environment or mitigating the environmental and ecological causes or effects of climate change that is not based on adequate and proper substantiation, the proof of which lies on the person making the representation;
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{2}
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Trump also suggested a deal could revive Keystone XL, a pipeline project that would have moved oil from Alberta to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. His online post on Tuesday said the venture, cancelled by his predecessor Joe Biden in 2021, "may be awoken from the grave!"
[/quote]Trump knows how to warm Carney's heart.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-trump-tariffs-deadline-9.7311125
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Shame them. Go to the legislature and SHAME them and great dramatic form, nvite the green party up.on stage to yell at them. Maybe a selection of potential MLAs from.tossup ridings.
Bye Bye BCNDP bye bye!
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If you were watching the World Cup, you may have seen them too: the Liberal government’s TV ads about its climate record.
The ads boast about a clean energy future and lower emissions, while in actual fact the Carney government has dismantled climate policy and doubled down on fossil fuels. Mark Carney has even candidly admitted that these policies will increase Canada’s emissions.
When you make false environmental claims in advertising, it’s called greenwashing. And in Canada, it’s illegal.
So my NDP colleagues have filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau to open an official investigation.
If the PM wants to reverse climate action and buy the oil industry another pipeline, let’s have that debate.
But you can’t have it both ways: Canada is not currently on track for a clean energy future. We’re hurtling in the wrong direction.
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Today?
☕up and at em
🖥️ day shift 2/5 hnnng
✊ tuning in for an #NDP event in Yorkton-Melville
🎮 and games with the guys? -
Interview with Jenny Kwan.
NDP calls on the Canadian government to cancel the upcoming visit of Mohan Bhagwat. He is the Chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary organisation.
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‘When we elect New Democrats, we win important supports for people, like pensions, pharmacare, dental care, child care and stronger labour protection,” added Janet Davis. “I’m proud to endorse Shannon, and I’m looking forward to the energy and integrity she will bring as our future MP.” #NDP #cdnpoli #bcpoli
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We've lost a beloved member of the NDP family. Dick Proctor was an MP, a provincial and federal secretary, and worked with many great New Democrats, from Ed Broadbent and Jack Layton to Roy Romanow and Allan Blakeney.
I’ll always remember him as the funny and lovable sportswriter who was along for the ride on my dad Stephen Lewis’s unforgettable 1975 Ontario campaign. My sister Ilana and I spent countless hours on the bus with Dick, playing word games and having long conversations with a gentle and wise adult who took us seriously.
We are all mourning the loss of an honest and principled New Democrat who infused every role he played with wit, intelligence and sensitivity. We send our love and condolences to Merran and the whole family.
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Hmm. I was reading the Green New Deal plan on Avi Lewis' post-leadership election site. I noticed the commitment to "become a signatory to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty". (1)
In checking the site, I see that both Canada and the US have "endorsed" this. (2).
That makes me wonder what this commitment signifies (if anything).
1. https://lewisisleader.ca/ideas/green-new-deal-full-plan
2. https://www.fossilfueltreaty.org/endorsements#all-endorsements
