I am sharing this hoping for more awareness and help to communities impacted by fire

Does current NDP have any kind of police policy? All the way from financial / organized crime / federal investigative power to bloated budgets of city police.

I believe this is something Mamdani sidestepped to not embark on unwinnable battle. It would be refreshing seeing something is done tho.

Hey all! Please let me know if this is too tangential to the NDP for posting here and I will delete it. I just thought this is a good place to get labour organizing expertise from a Canadian perspective.

I work in the nonprofit sector, specifically in capacity building for other nonprofits. For a long time, I’ve thought “you know what I think would build nonprofit capacity? A sector-wide union that advocates for the rights of nonprofit workers.” I’m in Alberta for context.

But I’m no labour organizer. I don’t know the first thing about this process. I work at a 9 person nonprofit organization and have never worked in a unionized environment. So I wanted to put this thought experiment out there to folks that know better than I do. If everything went correctly, what would the process be for starting a sector-wide union of nonprofits in Alberta? Or maybe something already exists in other provinces that we could join in on. I dunno! I’m open to suggestions.

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It's clear that Proportional Representation shouldn't just be something we do once we get in government, but a policy that we should proactively advocate for and come to an agreement with the OLP on. The ONDP and OLP basically already coordinate on everything in the legislature anyways at the moment. We should get ahead and seize initiative

https://www.fairvote.ca/18/07/2026/ontario-poll-shows-strong-support-for-proportional-representation/

source: https://bsky.app/profile/canadianpolling.bsky.social/post/3mr6vj2fcqc2d

https://youtube.com/shorts/OyauO5LB5uo?si=BxcRM5OZ80-DZ6Xp

Would anybody else be interested in an NDP members mailing list that notified you of petitions open for signature on Ourcommons.ca which are being sponsored by an NDP MP?

I try to check every month or so for petitions that are important to me but it's kind of hard to keep track and I'm sure I'm missing petitions that I would have liked to sign. You can filter by MP while searching on the site, but it strikes me that a monthly e-mail summary of petitions being sponsored by the party, with direct links to the actual petition's signing pages, would be a great way to encourage convenient and direct participation and help ensure that the party's priorities are being addressed in the House of Commons.

During his leadership campaign, Avi Lewis repeatedly signaled that electoral reform would be his top priority. During one interview he stated:

"We don’t go in with a menu of demands or a list of things to negotiate. One demand, proportional representation, that’s the only one."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHK0IeczOQ&t=244s

Q: When was the last time anyone heard him mention electoral reform?

NDP tribalism isn't a pathway towards unified national solidarity among Canadians. There's a national identity crisis where there's fundamental disagreements about who we are, what we are doing and where we are going as Canadians to help save Canada. No clear vision means no clear sense of direction. Politics and Democracy as we know it is endangered by the impending ongoing threat of AI taking over governance functions of our government. Corporate capture of regulatory authorities and governance is very real danger yet the NDP stays silent.

If the NDP went back to it's roots of the Canadian Commonwealth Federation the "Regina Manifesto" still rings true today almost 100 years later. It sets out a clear vision that was clearly never accomplished when the Canadian Commonwealth Federation became the NDP. To address the national identity crisis beyond NDP tribalism is to rebuild our sense of common-unity beyond mere politics that can become extinct tomorrow if AI gained governance functions today. Do what should of been done yesterday by doing what we shouldn't put off until tomorrow today. If the government is unable or unwilling then it's left to us Canadians and perhaps NDP to rise up before total social collapse.

"Peace, Order and Good Government" is the Canadian political motto despite party affiliation. Words have meaning and adding new context may renew our sense of national identity; which if the NDP is the driving social force and political connection to government it may help people feel seen, valued and heard; every action we take is a vote towards a future worth living and working towards together in solidarity locally nationwide. The word "Peace" isn't mearly the absence of war but "Peace of Mind" that you and your family is safe, healthy and happy. We do not have peace of mind when most cannot afford the cost of living. "Order" doesn't have to mean the top down hierarchy pyramid scheme system of social control. Common-unity bonds our individual thoughts, behaviors and actions creating a local to nationwide grassroots movement of "Spontaneous Order". The essence of government is supposed to be good people stopping bad things from happening; right now we have the opposite. "Peace of Mind, Spontaneous Order and Good Government" can become our updated and upgraded Canadian political motto.

The liberals and conservatives may echo the same political motto if started by the NDP. Canada and the global community is going through a forced coerced social transition we can see taking root and growing before our eyes like a dangerous invasive weed needing uprooting. "Peace of Mind, Spontaneous Order and Good Government" is what we can achieve if we rise up or forced AI powered digital dictatorship controlled by corporations becomes the new authority. Politics, Democracy and the NDP would become extinct because they are currently endangered. Canada is in danger because we have a national identity crisis and lack solidarity locally nationwide. Doing whatever our government cannot or will not do isn't protesting it's an exercise of human intervention to rebuild our social life and human connection. We are Canadian; who we are, what we are doing and where we are going matters to life more then mere politics. Answer those three fundamental questions and the NDP could become the forefront champion to achieve Peace of Mind, Spontaneous Order and Good Government locally nationwide in Canada.

We can rise up before social collapse to address our cost of living because "Canadians have the [Responsibility to Protect] our [Human Security] in Canada!" The Responsibility to Protect is a military doctrine that states when a country is unable or unwilling to maintain essential services or lives within their borders; the right to intervene from the International Community becomes justified and any country's military can enter Canadian soil under that humanitarian context. We as Canadians can become able and willing to maintain essential services and lives within our borders during extraordinary events. Human Security is to become free from fear free from wants and to live with human dignity. Humans naturally fear what we've yet to understand so we're called to understand more in order to become fearless in the face of dangers we face together. Human security cannot be claimed without securing it's seven subcategories; economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community and political security. To address these issues is to reduce our cost of living by ending the monopoly that made our lives more unhealthy and unaffordable.

The social transition towards AI powered corporate authoritarianism can be stopped by human interventions that removes justification used for government intervention. The alternative to rise up is a voluntary rapid social transformation when we aspire to achieve Peace of Mind, Spontaneous Order and Good Government in Canada. We as Canadians can make that individual non political choice and make our collective actions votes towards this certain future during these times of uncertainty; Politics, Democracy and the NDP may be saved from extinction that would occur otherwise without our proactive human intervention. Uncertainty allows anything to happen but having a clear vision resets our sense of direction, identity and civic life.

National Post is giving Nenshi way too much credit lol

Dónal Gill and Isaac Peltz do a great job and bolster what is to me the best system (STV).

Enjoy the projections!

I know that Avi is doing a lot of work in Quebec right now, including shoring up his French language skills. I think this is a great opportunity to show how he is working on his French, and talking to every day people in Quebec. Maybe he's working on this right now, so I hope he really utilizes his filmmaker chops!