Ashton announces November due date

Niki Ashton’s drive to win the NDP leadership now has an added tag line: Baby on board. The Manitoba MP announced Monday that she is pregnant, with a November due date, which means the baby could come just days after NDP members choose a new leader this fall.

As Ashton herself quipped on Parliament Hill, “I may be birthing many things.”

Ashton is the only woman in the race to replace Thomas Mulcair as federal NDP leader.