Althia Raj: NDP leadership candidates look inward as their party crumbles around them

Althia Raj/Toronto Star: What’s perhaps more alarming for progressives across the country, however, is that the five leadership candidates vying to lead the NDP — McQuail, filmmaker Avi Lewis, Edmonton Strathcona MP Heather McPherson, union leader Rob Ashton, and social worker and city councillor Tanille Johnston — haven’t explained how they plan to win back past supporters, move past the challenges that have plagued the party (such as debates over gun control or oil and gas extraction), or substantively addressed new ones that the country currently faces…