Manitoba Premier Kinew’s message to NPD leadership hopefuls: ‘We need a federal NDP that can win’

‘It’s way better than the alternative,’ the Manitoba premier said in his opening remarks on the first day of the NDP leadership convention in Winnipeg.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, hoping to inspire the federal leadership hopefuls, tallied up a laundry list of what his government has accomplished since being elected in 2023.The Hill Times photograph by Marlo Glass

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BY ELEANOR WAND, MARLO GLASS

March 27, 2026

WINNIPEG—The most popular premier in Canada has a simple message for the next leader of the federal NDP: w...

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