Yves Engler for NDP Leader
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Campaign announcements for NDP leadership nominee Yves Engler.
https://yvesforndpleader.ca
BREAKING: SENDING AN EMAIL TO THE POLICE IS NOW A CRIME IN CANADA Today, a Quebec court decided that the "Send" button is a criminal weapon. Judge Karine Giguère found me guilty of harassment and obstruction of justice today. My crime?
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Mark Carney is a ‘lying Liberal’, not a defender of international law, let alone an anti-imperialist. The prime minister’s speech in Davos reflects a long Liberal tradition of seeking to convince people to ‘judge what I say, not what I do’.
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Mark Carney just accepted a seat on Trump’s Gaza colonial board, backed kidnapping Maduro & continues Canada’s unprecedented military ties to US. Still many are praising the PM for standing up to US & defending sovereignty during today’s speech to World Economic Forum
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Yves Engler on X: "Mark Carney just accepted a seat on Trump’s Gaza colonial board, backed kidnapping Maduro & continues Canada’s unprecedented military ties to US. Still many are praising the PM for standing up to US & defending sovereignty during today’s speech to World Economic Forum https://t.co/U4mLHZlN6K" / X
Mark Carney just accepted a seat on Trump’s Gaza colonial board, backed kidnapping Maduro & continues Canada’s unprecedented military ties to US. Still many are praising the PM for standing up to US & defending sovereignty during today’s speech to World Economic Forum https://t.co/U4mLHZlN6K
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6 days ago
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In Toronto Star Rick Salutin slams unelected 3 person NDP vetting committee’s exclusion of my campaign: “Yves Engler will be missed in the NDP leadership race, now that they have, with Stalinist joie de vivre, rejected his candidacy.”
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We’re facing a housing crisis like never before. People are sleeping in tents & & cars while billions go to militarism. It was terrific to be in conversation with people organizing towards real solutions.
7 days ago
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I’ll be speaking about Canada supporting US/Israel war on Iran. If in Montreal Friday join me & NDP candidate Nima Machouf, La Presse reporter Laura-Julie Perreault, Mina Fakhravar & Amir Khadir for Quelles solidarités avec le peuple iranien en lutte?
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23 janvier - Quelles solidarités avec le peuple iranien en lutte? - Alternatives
Déclenchée par une crise économique profonde, la contestation en Iran se répand depuis le 28 décembre dernier et touche désormais presque toutes les classes sociales, les villes et les régions du pays...
https://tinyurl.com/bdey9bmf
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Marking Canadian imperialism
YouTube video by Yves Engler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ByWB-8lXjg
9 days ago
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Patrice Lumumba was assassinated 65 years ago today. Canada played a key role in the Congolese independence leader’s demise. After seven decades of brutal rule, Belgium organized a hasty independence in the hopes of maintaining control over the Congo’s vast natural resources.
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Canada is at it again, ignoring the wishes of the people affected & instead helping an imperial power. Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza will be remembered as something similar to the Balfour Declaration in which London promised to create a Jewish home on Palestinian land. And just
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Judy Rebick’s brand of power-worshipping, ‘respectable’, thinking/activism is “destructive” to the left. It’s okay to be a left NDPer. It’s “destructive” though when you portray yourself as a “troublemaker” seeking to radically upend the power structure.
11 days ago
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Last year Israel bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Qatar as well as the territorial waters of Tunisia, Malta and Greece. It’s now stoking violence in Iran & some “leftist” Canadians are helping set the stage for something even more horrible.
12 days ago
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Amidst protests/Trump threats here are 7 concrete measures Canadians seeking to stand in solidarity with Iranians can promote:
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Canadian politicians of all stripes are declaring “I stand with Iran” & calling for “democracy” there. But, few mention Canada’s extensive efforts to squeeze that country or history of undermining Iranian sovereignty & democracy.
13 days ago
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Is it pro-working class to subsidize billionaires? Do workers benefit from naval belligerence? NDP leadership candidate Rob Ashton supports giving huge subsidies to the most controversial capitalists in the Maritimes so the navy can fire long range missiles in US-led wars.
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Renters are pushed to the brink while corporations profit from housing - this has to change. Can't wait for this discussion on Jan 15: "Acting on the Housing Emergency" where we'll discuss building a movement for housing affordability ➡️Register now!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Acting on the Housing Emergency: Where to go from here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Acting on the Housing Emergency: Where to go from here. Canada is facing a housing crisis. Renters are being forced into slum-like conditions by a market that has failed to meet the needs of working-...
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NlERuPB6R1SDvuzB89LgVg
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Sixteen years ago today an earthquake devastated Haiti. Ottawa’s reaction to this horrifying tragedy highlights the wickedness of Canadian foreign policy. After just several minutes of violent shaking on January 12, 2010, hundreds of thousands perished in Port-au-Prince and its surrounding regions.
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Bumped into former MP Michael Levitt yesterday. The CEO of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center didn't want to discuss his support for the genocidal Jewish supremacist state
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The CEO of Scotiabank has endorsed the “Donroe Doctrine”. Canadian capitalists have long supported US imperialism in the hemisphere but backing the murderous kidnapping of Venezuela’s president while Trump threatens to make Canada the 51st state seems almost well… treasonous.
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Join me at NDP debate Saturday in Toronto. Don’t let unelected 3 person vetting committee determine what ideas are acceptable in leadership race
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Bianca Mugyenyi Enters NDP Leadership Race, Carrying Forward Engler Campaign Platform
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Bianca Mugyenyi Enters NDP Leadership Race, Carrying Forward Engler Campaign Platform
Bianca Mugyenyi has formally applied to join the federal NDP leadership race, stepping forward to carry the torch of the socialist, anti-militarist platform she helped build during the leadership camp...
https://globalgreen.news/en/bianca-mugyenyi-enters-ndp-leadership-race-carrying-forward-engler-campaign-platform/
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Mark Carney has radically militarized Canadian society and handed the bill to working people. The former investment banker has gutted climate protections, trampled Indigenous rights, and overseen a sharp erosion of democratic priorities.
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CEO of Scotiabank publicly backs Maduro’s kidnapping & new Monroe Doctrine of US dominating hemisphere
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Canada has spent decades undermining Venezuelan democracy As part of justifying Trump’s crass imperial aggression in Venezuela Canadian officials have taken up the mantra of “democracy”. In one post on the weekend Mark Carney opined about
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The depth of Canadian military ties to US is so extensive it’s all but impossible for US to commit some major military crime without Canadian forces involvement. Trump mentioned US Space Command role’s in US raid to kidnap Maduro. Did this Canadian general play a role?
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Canada must immediately cut off all direct and indirect support for the U.S.’ acts of war and military violence. Email @MarkJCarney & @AnitaAnandMP
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Urgent: No War on Venezuela
Canada must immediately cut off all direct and indirect support for the U.S.’ acts of war and military violence. Early on January 3rd, the U.S. carried out a violent military assault on Venezuela, b...
https://tinyurl.com/y8xsrnus
23 days ago
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Canada effectively endorses Trump’s flagrant violation of international law & kidnapping of head of state. Incredible part, it’s not impossible to imagine Trump doing same thing to Carney or Anand
23 days ago
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Early Saturday morning the US bombed several spots in Caracas and elsewhere in Venezuela. The US president says Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife have been “captured”. These clear acts of imperial aggression are designed to ratchet up pressure on the
23 days ago
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Canada should immediately: Denounce US aggression Ensure it isn’t offering any military assistance to US war on Venezuela Withdraw from Operation Caribbe Rescind sanctions contributing to Trump’s criminal blockade Restart diplomatic relations with Caracas
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Krishnan Gaur on X: "BREAKING NEWS : Dozens of explosions heard across Venezuela’s capital amid suspected U.S. airstrikes https://t.co/pXZyywR9ON" / X
BREAKING NEWS : Dozens of explosions heard across Venezuela’s capital amid suspected U.S. airstrikes https://t.co/pXZyywR9ON
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NO Canadian support for US war. Take action now
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End Canadian Backing for US War on Venezuela
Donald Trump has instigated a criminal blockade of Venezuela. The US president also looks set to further escalate his violence against that country. Please email the Prime Minister and foreign ministe...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/end-canadian-backing-for-us-war-on-venezuela/thankyou
23 days ago
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The president of one of Canada’s largest corporations says my asking a leading capitalist about donating to the Israeli military reflects “runaway hate”. Harley Finkelstein’s twisting of the truth would be amusing if it didn’t enable Palestinian suffering & attacks on Canadian civil liberties.
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Legislation is needed to restrict CEO to average worker pay. As part of my bid to lead the NDP we’ve called for federally regulated firms to be restricted from paying execs no more than 10x their lowest paid workers.
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Canada’s highest-paid CEOs made an average of $16.2-million in 2024, report says
Gap between their payout and average worker wages widened to a record 248 times more
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadas-highest-paid-ceos-made-an-average-of-162-million-in-2024/
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Does Avi Lewis “profoundly disagree” with my campaign’s call to shut down the tar sands? Or to convert Real Estate Investment Trust units into co-ops? Or to expand indigenous jurisdiction? Or to eliminate billionaires?
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222 years ago today Haiti gained its independence after a 13 year struggle against slavery, white supremacy & colonialism. Naval vessels from Halifax & a number of leading 'Canadians' sought to suppress one of the greatest challenges to injustice in human history
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67 years ago today Fidel Castro's forces overthrew US-backed dictator Batista. Unlike most countries in hemisphere Canada never severed relations with Cuba after revolution. One reason was that the US asked the Canadian embassy in Havana to spy which US greatly benefited from
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There’s a glaring double standard on the self-proclaimed left. On the one hand, no one who proudly proclaimed themselves “racist” would be described as progressive; but on the other hand, some who call themselves Zionists are designated exactly that.
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Amid growing pressure Avi Lewis released a statement criticizing unelected 3 person NDP vetting committee’s decision to exclude our campaign from the leadership race. Email other candidates to urge them to speak out against subversion of party democracy
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Leadership means defending democracy
Amid growing pressure, leadership candidate Avi Lewis has released a statement criticizing the unelected three person NDP vetting committee’s decision to exclude Yves Engler from the leadership race. ...
https://tinyurl.com/2s4b4j3j
27 days ago
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It’s outrageous Mark Carney has put another $2.5 billion into a NATO proxy Canada helped provoke. Our NDP leadership platform calls for ending Canadian assistance & role in fuelling the horrible war
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As part of my campaign to lead the NDP we are calling for end to Operation Proteus. Canada must stop funding and training a PA security force Israel uses to oversee its criminal occupation of West Bank. Any expansion into Gaza of Shin Bet vetted PA force must be strongly resisted
28 days ago
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The Mark Carney government can find billions in “aid” to prolong a brutal proxy war but is cutting assistance for global health. Ukraine highlights how Canadian “aid” is principally a geopolitical tool. Enroute to meet Donald Trump
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2025 marked Canada’s radical militarist turn. But, for a Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement ally it was a year of de-militarization. Canada spent five times more on its military than Mexico. In the 2025 fiscal year Mexico budgeted $12 billion Canadian (152 billion pesos) for its military.
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Most NDP supporters would be scandalized by the UK police arresting Greta Thunberg for holding an anti-genocide placard. But the party backs the type of legislation responsible for her detention.
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Our full bilingual policy platform is now in print, bound into this beautiful booklet: Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed – Onward to a Socialist Future! 🖤 Read our bold, concrete proposals. Get your copy at any stop on our January tour or read the platform here:
yvesforndpleader.ca/policy
about 1 month ago
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Canada is directly supporting Donald Trump’s criminal blockade of Venezuela. It’s also assisting US violence that could spur unimaginable devastation. The US navy recently seized a tanker carrying oil from Venezuela to Cuba.
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Our platform recognizes that we, as humans, regardless of income or identity, all have the same basic needs-and that these should be met through universal basic services. We recognize that environmental protection and social justice are inherently linked
yvesforndpleader.ca/policy
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POLICY - Yves Engler for NDP Leader
Canada is at a crossroads. Workers, small business owners, and entire communities are being squeezed by rising costs, stagnant wages, and record debt. Housing and food prices have spiraled out of reac...
http://yvesforndpleader.ca/policy
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“The deterioration of our planet is approaching a catastrophic crisis by operating an economic system that prioritizes pursuit of private profit above all else.” Read our campaign policy on Eco-socialism: A worker-first economy at
yvesforndpleader.ca/policy
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POLICY - Yves Engler for NDP Leader
Canada is at a crossroads. Workers, small business owners, and entire communities are being squeezed by rising costs, stagnant wages, and record debt. Housing and food prices have spiraled out of reac...
http://yvesforndpleader.ca/policy
about 1 month ago
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Avi Lewis has driven his supporters down an authoritarian, anti-socialist, path. The NDP leadership candidate’s role in assisting the party establishment’s bid to crush an insurgent campaign doesn’t portend well for an individual whose family’s history is steeped in crushing the left.
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“By excluding a candidate who could draw public attention to the race and force an ideological reckoning with his anti-capitalist policy positions, the party has chosen mundane procedural comfort over political daring.” — Bhagwant Sandhu, The Hill Times **
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The NDP's spectacular failure: Barring Engler is the ultimate political hypocrisy
The NDP establishment's final decision to bar Yves Engler from the leadership ballot, despite his having raised the required fee, reveals a deep institutional fear of democratic confrontation. The par...
https://www.thesarniajournal.ca/columnists/nathan-colquhoun/the-ndps-spectacular-failure-barring-engler-is-the-ultimate-political-hypocrisy-11604192
about 1 month ago
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Article in today’s Sarnia Journal titled “Lucy Watson and the bureaucratic purge of the NDP leadership race” “The recent leaked guidance from the NDP Leadership Vote Committee regarding the disqualification of Yves Engler shows us how institutional violence works.
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Mark Carney is setting up a “people’s army”. The Former Goldman Sachs banker & chair of Brookfield Assets is turning Canada into socialist republic & anti-imperialist beachhead. If you believe Carney is setting up a “people’s army”, Charlie Angus NDP has a bridge to sell you in Moose Jaw.
about 1 month ago
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