2026 NDP Leadership Race & Pick

[ArmyRick]

I don’t know what it is, but her picture makes me feel uncomfortable.

She has crazy eyes, thats why

 

[ArmyRick]

attempt to woo Tom Muclair

Don't think Tom would ever come back to the NDP. From the way he talks, if he got back into politics, I am pretty sure he would be Liberal.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Don't think Tom would ever come back to the NDP. From the way he talks, if he got back into politics, I am pretty sure he would be Liberal.

I don't doubt it, they stabbed him in the back when he tried to make them relevant.

 

[Rifleman62]

At some point in the not too distant future I can see a potential leader for any one of the parties telling the special interest groups:

"Go piss up a rope" or words to that effect.

Does that include a Province?

 

[OldSolduer]

Does that include a Province?

Oh I certainly hope so. I take it you're referring to that NDP bastion of BC?

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Oh I certainly hope so. I take it you're referring to that NDP bastion of BC?

For awhile there, the Provincial NDP wanted little to do with the Fed NDP.

 

[Rifleman62]

I take it you're referring to that NDP bastion of BC?

A lot farther East, near Ontario!

 

[Fishbone Jones]

For awhile there, the Provincial NDP wanted little to do with the Fed NDP.

Maybe the leadership race will provide an opportunity for provincial dippers to cut themselves loose from the control the federal NDP has over their operations and bank accounts. Maybe.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Lol

https://twitter.com/x/status/1974308110618800625

 

[The Bread Guy]

Lol

https://twitter.com/x/status/1974308110618800625

Yves Engler is a pretty hard-core true left believer - interesting Ouija Board take

 

[ArmyRick]

Tony website is up and running, he is officially a candidate

Tony McQuail Green Progressive 2026

Tony McQuail's Green Progressive plan advocates for electoral reform and unifying progressive Canadian voices for a fairer, more equitable, and ecologically responsible future.

tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca

 

[daftandbarmy]

Just in time for Thanksgiving....

All B.C. government liquor, cannabis stores behind pickets as strike escalates​

The escalation by the union also includes all Service BC workers, raising the total number of members participating in job action to almost 25,000.

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/all-bc-government-liquor-cannabis-stores-now-behind-workers-pickets-in-escalation-11322398

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Just in time for Thanksgiving....

All B.C. government liquor, cannabis stores behind pickets as strike escalates​

The escalation by the union also includes all Service BC workers, raising the total number of members participating in job action to almost 25,000.

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/all-bc-government-liquor-cannabis-stores-now-behind-workers-pickets-in-escalation-11322398

For the love of god, BC needs to just sell its liquor stores already and get out of the retail business…

 

[daftandbarmy]

For the love of god, BC needs to just sell its liquor stores already and get out of the retail business…

$1B annual revenue to the Crown says otherwise

 

[SeaKingTacco]

$1B annual revenue to the Crown says otherwise

They would make more, with less headache, by selling all the retail outlets (the interwebs says there are 198) and just concentrating on the distribution warehouses.

 

[Rifleman62]

The BCEGU doesn't give one shidt how their strike affects small business owners of restaurants/bars.
It's money, money, money for their mbrs and frick the taxpayer who pays their bloated salaries/benefits.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Double post

 

[SeaKingTacco]

The BCEGU doesn't give one shidt how their strike affects small business owners of restaurants/bars.
It's money, money, money for their mbrs and frick the taxpayer who pays their bloated salaries/benefits.

I recall the ALCB retail workers union had a nice little gig going for a while in Alberta where they would go on strike just before summer, every year like clockwork, causing a beer shortage.

That worked until the Alberta government sold off the retail side of the liquor board. Never been a problem, since.

 

[Rifleman62]

Eby wants everyone dependant on the NDP, so he control.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Eby wants everyone dependant on the NDP, so he control.

I have met David Eby. Nice enough human being, but without John Horgan’s touch. Trying to wrangle a caucus that has weird ideas about how economies actually work (and a “coalition-lite” with the BC Greens, who can break him in a second, if he even pretends to like resource extraction) in a minority situation with the opposition breathing down his neck.

Yeah, not great.