610 CKTB | The Relevancy of Irrelevancy: The NDP’s Severance Delusion
Niagara 610 CKTB's Gene Valaitis and guest Jon Liedtke discuss how the federal NDP’s recent convention in Winnipeg signaled a final, clinical Severance from the Canadian working class. By trading the pragmatic labor focus of the past for the performative "equity cards" and academic radicalism of Avi Lewis, the party has retreated into a faculty lounge echo chamber. While delegates debated linguistic orthodoxy, industrial workers in towns like Windsor and Oshawa aren't being spoken to, left to face the looming 2026 trade wars and a plummeting standard of living without their traditional…
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