Winnipeg Meetup

Posted on June 21, 2016 by


Monday June 27th, 2016 at 7 p.m.
Forth Cafe
171 McDermot Ave

Join Devin Tepleski, from Iron & Earth, and learn more about this oil sands worker led organization’s efforts to advocate for a diversified energy sector and ensure trades workers have the skills they need to succeed in building the clean energy projects of tomorrow.

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Annual General Meeting

Posted on April 27, 2016 by

Winnipeg South Centre NDP is holding its:

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday May 25th, 2016
Crescentwood Community Centre
1170 Corydon Ave
Multipurpose Room
7:00 PM

Guest Speaker: Daniel Blakie, NDP Member of Parliament for Elmwood-Transcona

For more information: info@winnipegsouthcentre.ca

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Climate Change Emergency Shakes Canada’s Corporate Establishment

Posted on April 25, 2016 by

A good article from counterpunch about the controversy that the Leap Manifesto has stirred up.

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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems

Posted on April 15, 2016 by

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? A terrific article by George Monbiot of The Guardian. His latest book How Did We Get into This Mess? is available at the Winnipeg Public Library.

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Leap Manifesto

Posted on April 14, 2016 by

At our 2016 Convention in Edmonton the delegates voted to encourage riding associations to debate the merits of the Leap Manifesto over the next two years in preparation for the 2018 Policy Convention.

From a Globe and Mail article:

The manifesto’s proposals include:

  • Shifting swiftly away from fossil fuels so that Canada gets 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable resources within 20 years and is entirely weaned off fossil fuels by 2050.
  • No new infrastructure projects aimed at increasing extraction of non-renewable resources, including pipelines.
  • “Energy democracy,” in which energy sources are collectively controlled by communities instead of “profit-gouging” private companies.
  • An end to all trade deals “that interfere with our attempts to rebuild local economies, regulate corporations and stop damaging extractive projects.”
  • Expand low-carbon sectors of the economy, such as caregiving, teaching, social work, the arts and public-interest media.
  • Vigorous debate on the idea of introducing a universal guaranteed minimum income.
  • Declaring that “austerity – which has systematically attacked low-carbon sectors like education and health care while starving public transit and forcing reckless energy privatizations – is a fossilized form of thinking that has become a threat to life on earth.”
  • Paying for it all by ending fossil fuel subsidies, imposing financial transaction taxes, increasing resource royalties, hiking taxes on corporations and the wealthy, introducing a progressive carbon tax, and cutting military spending.
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Federal Convention 2016

Posted on February 22, 2016 by

The Federal Convention will be held in Edmonton April 8-10, 2016.  A few members from our riding will be going. If you are interested in going  you will need an Convention Easycode. Email to get one.

Register before February 29th and save $50.

Go paperless and save another $50.

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A Few Insights After the Election

Posted on November 9, 2015 by

Do not know who wrote this but it did produce a smile.

As we try to figure out what the election results mean, here are a few insights:

Like many millennials, after trying to strike out into the big vast world on his own, Justin Trudeau has returned home to the place he was raised (24 Sussex Dr.),

On the flip side, Mr. Harper woke up to quite likely his worst nightmare. He woke up as a regular Calgary citizen with a Muslim as his Mayor, the NDP running his province, and the Liberals running his country….
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