Wab Kinew
Party leader and NDP candidate in the Fort Rouge Winnipeg race.
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NPD et libéraux évoquent le traitement du cancer et les soins aux étudiants étrangers | Élections au Manitoba 2023
17 September 2023
Ici Radio Canada / CBC Francais - ...de bons services dans notre système de santé et pour continuer ça dans l'avenir on doit construire ce nouveau bâtiment , lance le chef du NPD , Wab Kinew, dans une conférence de presse, au parc Jacob Penner, près du Centre des sciences de la santé de Winnipeg. Le NPD reçoit d'ailleurs un appui...
‘Search the landfill’ protests planned across Canada for Monday
17 September 2023
Global News - ...after the Oct. 3 election it would fund 50 per cent of the $184 million it is estimated to cost to search the north Winnipeg site. NDP leader Wab Kinew said if elected, he’ll do what current Premier Heather Stefanson won’t, which is “try.” The upcoming event has also renewed conversations...
NDP promises new CancerCare building, Liberals talk tuition rebate
17 September 2023
CTV - ...Take a leap of faith and actually vote for a party that is representing your values," he said. "Because the other parties aren't." NDP leader Wab Kinew was outside the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Sunday promising to build a new CancerCare facility. "The Manitoba NDP will build a brand new...
NDP promise new $350M CancerCare headquarters if elected
17 September 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...leader Wab Kinew promised on Sunday to resurrect a plan to build a new facility and headquarters for CancerCare Manitoba that was cancelled by the Progressive Conservative government in 2017. Kinew, while speaking at a park across from the Health Sciences Centre, said the new expansion on an empty lot...
New CancerCare Manitoba headquarters promised by NDP if elected
17 September 2023
CBC Manitoba - ...promised Sunday to build a new CancerCare Manitoba headquarters on the campus of the city's Health Sciences Centre if elected this fall. NDP Leader Wab Kinew said the building capital would cost $350 million in provincial funds. He added CancerCare is "bursting at the seams" with staff, but said the...
Letters, Sept. 16 – Winnipeg Free Press
16 September 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...14) Joyce Wolfe’s letter to the editor “Axworthy, Doer old news” seeks to diminish the importance of these elder statesmen lending support to Wab Kinew. I beg to differ. Aside from their name recognition, these gentlemen have much to offer in their many areas of expertise. As to Ms Wolfe’s...
Halfway into Manitoba’s election, are the PCs and NDP running out of material?
16 September 2023
CBC Manitoba - ...they cast their ballots. For the NDP, it's health care and very little else. Since the start of the formal campaign, the only thing party leader Wab Kinew appears to want to speak about is the state of health care. All the promises he's made — save for one involving former premier Gary Doer — have...
Battle lines drawn in Brandon East
16 September 2023
Brandon Sun - ... This year, the province committed to sending out rebates equal to half the education property taxes property owners are paying. NDP Leader Wab Kinew has committed to keeping the rebate in place should his party form government, though he stopped short of committing to phasing it out completely. ...
‘Untapped potential’: NDP touts international health-care workers licensing plan
15 September 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...support credentials recognition for internationally educated health-care professionals. “Manitoba has so much untapped potential,” NDP Leader Wab Kinew said across the street from Concordia Hospital in Winnipeg. “We have thousands of health-care professional who’ve come here from around the...
Parties make (not always welcome) connections with Indigenous voters – Winnipeg Free Press
15 September 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (which the Liberals have vowed to do). Indigenous voters are particularly attracted to NDP Leader Wab Kinew and his promise to forge “unity” in the province (although respondents couldn’t really tell me how). Those I spoke with really like the NDP...