OTTAWA — Filmmaker and journalist Avi Lewis is heading into this weekend’s NDP leadership convention as the clear favourite to win it all. Some six in 10 Canadians who’ve opened their wallets to support an NDP leadership candidate have contributed to Lewis’s war chest. Fundraising totals have tracked closely to vote counts in the last two NDP leadership elections, putting Lewis on course for a first-ballot win on Sunday. “The Alberta NDP will have nothing to do with the Leap Manifesto cliff jumpers,” said Nenshi. Nenshi championed a successful resolution at last year’s Alberta NDP convention to allow provincial members to opt out from joining the federal party and says he’s not a member of the federal NDP.
