Clashing visions define pivotal NDP leadership race as party prepares to rebuild

Toronto Star: “We are New Democrats, and we all believe in fairness, in equity, in looking out for your neighbour,” McPherson, the only MP in the race, said to party faithful. “So this race isn’t about debating those values. It’s about who can turn them into wins for people.”

It was a thinly veiled rebuttal to the rise of Avi Lewis, the party scion and left-wing maverick who appears to be in the driving seat of the race with a massive organizing machine and crowds of hundreds across the country listening to his pitch to return the New Democratic Party to its democratic socialist roots…