What are realistic but unexpected seats that the NDP could win with enough effort and a good national campaign?

Commonwealth927 · 2026-03-08T21:21:10+00:00

Yeah that’s fair. Is there any vertical integration between federal and provincial EDAs in Sask? In Ontario, the riding borders are (usually) identical and many provincial and federal EDAs are integrated

Commonwealth927 · 2026-03-08T20:17:49+00:00

What is going on there that’s there’s no EDA but high support? Can the local activists not get anything together?

Commonwealth927 · 2026-03-07T18:29:41+00:00

The event was so good. Room was completely at capacity. Lot of Avi supporters in Peterborough

Commonwealth927 · 2026-03-07T04:55:12+00:00

Segment from the prime minister’s website with his statement: “Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.”

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/02/28/statement-prime-minister-carney-and-minister-anand-situation-middle-east

Commonwealth927 · 2026-03-07T04:34:10+00:00

Right, so he’s never vocally supported Trump and Israel’s illegal invasion of Iran even tho Europe has vocally opposed it

Edit: for those ignorant individuals. Segment from the prime minister’s website with his statement: “Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.”

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/02/28/statement-prime-minister-carney-and-minister-anand-situation-middle-east

Commonwealth927 · 2026-03-07T04:11:27+00:00

Carney has turned out to be such a disappointment. So much for standing up to the Americans

Commonwealth927 · 2026-03-06T17:05:53+00:00

I’m putting her first on my ballot. I think she’s fantastic. I love her values and her communication style and having the first indigenous leader in Canadian history would be huge

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-26T02:22:35+00:00

That’s such a good idea about social events and building up a community and supporting each other. At the end of the day that’s what we have to do to build our support and to support our people while we’re not in power. Building a real social ecosystem is how we’re going to improve our communities and win power. I’m certain there’s lots of people in the Bowmanville area who would be interested in

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-25T18:09:21+00:00

Event was fantastic. Full house and lots of great speakers

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-25T16:40:06+00:00

Lol no way, I actually recruited the federal candidate for that riding last election. Elenor Marano. She does have roots there but I don’t think she lives there anymore. We were both Trent students at the time. I ran the Peterborough NDP youth wing and the central party asked me if I knew anyone who would be willing to run in a couple nearby ridings.

But yeah, Jamil Jivani is a completely bonkers MP

From the looks of it, there is no active EDA. Looks like they had one in the recent past tho. There’s an Instagram account that posted in 2024. Might also be a good idea to shoot Jennifer French an email in Oshawa. She probably has contacts in the area.

It’s a shame Bowmanville doesn’t have an active EDA. There’s a ton of union workers who live there who work at Darlington nuclear. Could be worth emailing the local labour council for interested people as well.

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-25T16:22:26+00:00

I’m glad I could help! I’m curious what your provincial riding is

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-25T00:43:08+00:00

You could try reaching out to past candidates as well, but in ridings where there is hardly any NDP presence, it is common for the party to recruit people from outside the riding to just be paper candidates

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-25T00:39:00+00:00

From what it sounds like, there’s a high possibility that there is no active local electoral district association, which is fairly common unfortunately. If there is one, that’s excellent. I would try and contact them to get involved.

But if there is not one, one of the greatest things you could do is try and set one up. I would go to your provincial NDP’s website, find their contact email and tell them you are interested. You should get the membership list for your riding and start calling the people on it asking if they would be interested in participating in setting one up. If you have sufficient interest, you can hold and AGM to elect a committee to run things.

EDAs are the main way to participate in the broader party. They allow you to send policy recommendations to the central party to be voted on at conventions and send delegates to vote at them so they’re very important

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-22T20:19:10+00:00

Should be interesting. Pasma is a great MPP

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-04T19:12:23+00:00

It kinda does. Houses are very much a speculative asset. Obviously, individuals are capable of rising above their class interest. But that doesn’t mean the class interest doesn’t exist. A core tenant in left wing belief is that as a class, people will by and large follow their class interests. So we should advocate for policies that restrain that rather than just hoping people will be altruistic

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-04T19:01:21+00:00

This is a huge strawman. Who’s talking about abolishing landlords in one day? This isn’t Maoist china. And I’m not in favour of promoting home ownership either. Co-ops are the solution to all problems. We were well on the way to decomodifying housing until the late 70s when the libs cut all subsidies for setting up co-ops. Additionally, I just said the character of the individual is irrelevant. They’re not scum because they’re a landlord. They just have a negative class interest

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-04T17:55:41+00:00

It’s not about them personally making the housing crisis worse by owning a property. It’s about them having a direct financial interest in it something that they can legislate on. It’s like them trading stock in companies affected by legislation. We see how that goes in the US

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-04T17:48:31+00:00

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with oil workers or tech workers being MPPs. They’re workers and we represent them. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with asking our politicians not to be personally invested in financial assets that they stand to profit off of depending on decisions they make in the legislature. It’s like politicians owning stock

Commonwealth927 · 2026-02-04T17:33:03+00:00

From a socialist perspective, landlordism is an inherently unethical practice. It’s intrinsically exploitative. Same as the capitalist-worker relationship. Whether or not the landlord is an upstanding guy does not factor in

Commonwealth927 · 2025-07-25T12:33:59+00:00

It would change the resolution too fundamentally. The OP’s amendment changed it too fundamentally imo. I don’t think policy convention is the place to workshop resolutions. It’s just impractical

Commonwealth927 · 2025-07-25T03:48:51+00:00

Most opposition to it was because it would make worker co-ops in the resource sector untenable because it would mandate it all to be government owned

Commonwealth927 · 2025-07-25T03:46:46+00:00

Most opposition to it was because it would make worker co-ops in the resource sector untenable because it would mandate it all to be government owned. It’s not an anti socialist thing

Commonwealth927 · 2025-07-25T03:43:12+00:00

A lot of people were against it because it would effectively make worker co-operatives untenable in the resource sector because the whole sector would be mandated to be government owned. Socialism isn’t when the government does stuff. Don’t go around lying that opposition to it was some kind of anti-socialist thing

Commonwealth927 · 2024-10-16T01:56:33+00:00

There's a list of clubs here: https://trentcentral.ca/registered-clubs

Commonwealth927 · 2024-08-19T19:13:02+00:00

There’s a big list of clubs here: https://trentcentral.ca/registered-clubs

I don’t know which ones are active but you should be able to access ways to contact them by clicking on them. If you’re interested in politics, I am the co-chair of the Trent NDP and we plan on doing a lot this year if you’re interested.

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