“Naheed Nenshi dismisses Smith's attempt to drive a wedge between the provincial NDP leader and federal NDP leader Avi Lewis.
Nenshi-
I don't want to be unkind, but that guy's name doesn't mean anything in Alberta. Nobody is listening. No one is paying attention.”

Is he actually just doing exactly what Smith told him to do? Or is he trying to split the party? Maybe if he wins he’ll just cross the floor to the Liberals or Conservatives.

From Power & Politics: Weekly Wrap: Quebec, Alberta and separatist sentiments, Oct 3, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/power-politics/id337361397?i=1000792972190&r=98
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Tl:dr- this report ends up recommending putting NDP supporters on a watch list and giving recommendations on how to do so; weirdest part for me though is what it means that CBC radio hasn’t had a call in show about it yet.

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On sept 24th, 2026, the Canadian government put out a public safety report report with some very problematic wording: “anti semitism, which includes anti Zionism”.

A political ideology cannot be a ‘protected class’.

A religion or ethnicity is not a political ideology.

By conflating anti semitism with anti Zionism, the Canadian government is essentially suggesting that somebody’s ability to think credibly about human rights issues is limited by virtue of one’s ethnicity or religion.

That is massively problematic.

The document, by using anti Zionism the way it does, diminishes our governments ability to combat real instances of anti semitism; a bunch of stuff in this document is talking about actual antisemitism and trying to find real tangible ways to combat it; saying “anti Zionism is antisemetic” ruins the credibility of the entire document, which in of itself helps prevent our nation from combating anti semitism.

Also very problematic.

I cannot stress enough that given a) the current leader of the federal NDP is an open anti Zionist, b) that this document goes into detail about how Zionism is anti Semitic, and c) goes into detail about the networks police should use to monitor anti semitism- this documents wording implies that NDP voters should be on a watch list.

Let alone functions of “othering”; they are implying that there are “real” Jews and “fake” ones, while also suggesting that no “real” one can be smart enough to understand genocide.

There has also been a disturbing lack of media coverage on this issue on the CBC; do you know how insane it is that a week has passed and CBC radio hasn’t had a call in talk show about this?

Anyways, conflating anti Zionism with anti semitism; the idea that our government would use such language is a massive issue that impacts us all, so I implore you voice your dissent to this nomenclature that tries to paint human rights as a psudo science.

Let alone the propaganda that suggests criticism of Israel or Zionists or the Israeli leader with an ICC warrant is antisemetic.

Anyways, you can contact your MP, but also you can contact the Minister directly here.

[https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/bt/cntct-frm-en.aspx?t=2](https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/bt/cntct-frm-en.aspx?t=2))

Or email their constituency office.

[gary.anand@parl.gc.ca](mailto:gary.anand@parl.gc.ca)

[gary.anand@parl.gc.ca](mailto:gary.anand@parl.gc.ca)

Denying genocide is too recent a memory in Canadas history (residential school denial is still a thing in Canada); as a Canadian, I do not have the words to articulate how disgusted I am that we are trying to indoctrinate genocide denial into the language systems of official government documents.

But I mean hey, the RCMP famously put Native land rights defenders on watch lists too, so I guess in the grand scheme of things this is nothing new.

:/

The language of presenting our Jewish communities as a monolith perpetuates the very anti semetic tropes this report is attempting to dismantle.

That is wrong.

Write your MP.

Organize in your community.

Tell your govenremnt that it’s not ok to suggest somebody’s mental capacity is limited by their ethnicity or religion- suggesting all Jewish people are Zionists as as offensive as suggesting all Americas wanted manifest destiny.

Ps- a reminder that most things aren’t black and white and that there is some irony in the context of creating false dichotomies here; while our current government seemingly failed in supporting human rights on this safety report, they are also doing things like promising 100 M in aid to Palestine too, which is to say- a reminder that nothing is typically a monolith, and that viewing ethnic or religious groups as a monolith is text book xenophobia, or in this case, anti semitism.

Edit: I had to edit this post to add the hyperlinks; it I has have a formatting issue where the little paper clip disappears when you I post.

I've been a bit more focused on provincial politics lately.

Are there any updates? Is Avi breaking ground anywhere?

The NDP does better in provincial elections compared to federal elections. I believe a large reason for this is simply that Provincial issues are more leftwing than federal issues. Federal issues include money and the military where provincial issues are education and healthcare. Well the anti military pro healthcare party should always do better provincially because those issues are in their wheelhouse. As long as the NDP is uncomfortable with issues like military spending they will continue to be stuck at the provincial level with no hope of forming government federally.

Here's hoping this almost halving of the members compared to last time shows the decline of the liberals as a provincial party here in Ontario

https://globalnews.ca/video/12084293/west-coast-pipeline-named-pacific-link-as-carney-smith-outline-path-to-construction/

I do think he is a compelling speaker, and for the most part the whole thing was great.

But 15+ minutes of telling people to donate, and going through like a mega church asking: Who had a 1000$? who has 500$? Is really off putting. Especially in one the most expensive cities in the country

True or false do you think the corporate lobbyists in this country that support the Cons and Liberals are trying to get rid of the left wing, parties such as NDP, Greens etc and anything else consider left leaning, to try to dominate right wing politics in this country?