{"id":73453,"date":"2017-03-07T15:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T15:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/niki-ashton-to-launch-ndp-leadership-bid.html"},"modified":"2017-03-07T15:51:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T15:51:33","slug":"niki-ashton-to-launch-ndp-leadership-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/niki-ashton-to-launch-ndp-leadership-bid.html","title":{"rendered":"Niki Ashton to launch NDP leadership bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manitoba MP Niki\u00a0Ashton\u00a0is entering the race to replace Tom Mulcair as leader of the NDP.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton\u00a0is\u00a0the fourth person,\u00a0and first woman, to vie\u00a0for the leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Julian, Charlie Angus and Guy Caron\u00a0earlier\u00a0announced their candidacies.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton, 35,\u00a0will launch her bid at an event at 25OneCommunity,\u00a0a co-working space for progressive organizations and individuals in downtown Ottawa, beginning at 10:55 a.m. ET,\u00a0and CBCNews.ca will carry it live.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ANALYSIS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/wherry-ndp-leadership-race-1.4005054\">NDP race a chance to stir things up<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/grenier-ndp-leadership-rules-1.3921561\">How the NDP race will unfold<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/guy-caron-ndp-leadership-1.4000796\">\u200b<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First elected in the 2008 federal election, Ashton represents the northern Manitoba riding of Churchill-Keewatinook Aski.<\/p>\n<p>She was one of seven candidates\u00a0in the NDP&#8217;s\u00a02012 leadership campaign to replace Jack Layton, when Mulcair took the helm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/jagmeet-singh-ndp-leadership-profile-1.3982662\">Jagmeet<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/jagmeet-singh-ndp-leadership-profile-1.3982662\"> Singh, deputy leader of the Ontario NDP<\/a> and an MPP for Brampton, Ont., is also considering a run, as is former Ontario union leader Sid Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>July 3 is the deadline for candidates to get their name on the ballot for the NDP convention and leadership vote in October.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/bdf52_ndp-leadership-contenders-julian-caron-and-angus.jpg\" alt=\"NDP leadership contenders Julian, Caron and Angus\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Other NDP leadership contenders, from left, Peter Julian of B.C., Guy Caron of Quebec and Ontario&#8217;s Charlie Angus. (Darryl Dyck\/Justin Tang\/Adrian Wyld\/Canadian Press)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manitoba MP Niki\u00a0Ashton\u00a0is entering the race to replace Tom Mulcair as leader of the NDP. Ashton\u00a0is\u00a0the fourth person,\u00a0and first woman, to vie\u00a0for the leadership. Peter Julian, Charlie Angus and Guy Caron\u00a0earlier\u00a0announced their candidacies. Ashton, 35,\u00a0will launch her bid at an event at 25OneCommunity,\u00a0a co-working space for progressive organizations and individuals in downtown Ottawa, beginning at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-73453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}