NDP convention notebook: falling in love with the NDP

A dispatch from the second day of the NDP leadership convention in Winnipeg.

Jim Ridley and Cathy Harrop of Canmore, Alta., sat down with The Hill Times to reminisce about how they met at the NDP convention in Winnipeg in 1989. The pair is voting for Avi Lewis for leader.The Hill Times photograph by Matthew Merkel

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BY MARLO GLASS, ELEANOR WAND

March 28, 2026

UPDATED April 17, 2026

WINNIPEG—The Hill Times' reporters Marlo Glass and Eleanor Wand are on the ground in Winnipeg, Man., bringing the NDP news and filing a notebook of behind-...

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