Wab Kinew

Party leader and NDP candidate in the Fort Rouge Winnipeg race.

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Des électeurs autochtones séparent réconciliation et fouilles de décharge | Élections au Manitoba 2023

30 September 2023

Ici Radio Canada / CBC Francais - ...comme sa famille. Je veux voir de l'action.... Cela fait si longtemps que nous entendons des mots , martèle-t-elle. Même si le chef du NPD , Wab Kinew, un Autochtone, semble avoir le vent en poupe dans les sondages, l'étudiant Justin Langan a des attentes mesurées. Si [M. Kinew] devait promettre...

Here’s where Manitoba party leaders stand on the issues — and a peek into their lives outside politics

30 September 2023

CBC Manitoba - ...playful discussions. The videos below should help you get a feel for the politics of Progressive Conservative Leader Heather Stefanson, NDP Leader Wab Kinew, Manitoba Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont, Green Party Leader Janine Gibson and Keystone Party Leader Kevin Friesen — as well as a little glimpse...

Manitoba founded by Métis but oppressive history soon made Indigenous premiership impossible

30 September 2023

CBC Manitoba - ...But she didn't lead the Progressive Conservatives to victory in an election. She won a leadership vote after Brian Pallister resigned. NDP Leader Wab Kinew, who lived on the Onigaming First Nation in northwestern Ontario, has the edge on Stefanson heading into the election, according to recent poll...

Indigenous voters say reconciliation in Manitoba takes more than landfill search promises

30 September 2023

CBC Manitoba - ...not just the passing of certain policies. It takes showing up and being there as a government." At a Thursday press conference, Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew said if elected, he would focus on economic development and Indigenous-led business partnerships to advance reconciliation in the province. (Ian...

The Sun chats with Liberal leader Dougald Lamont

30 September 2023

Brandon Sun - ...corrected myself, these things are important. The treatment of kids in school is important. But this has been this entire thing. And actually, Wab Kinew said the same thing, but this is to distract us, and pretend there’s a problem when there isn’t one. Parents already have rights. So what...

No longer the party of Duff Roblin – Winnipeg Free Press

30 September 2023

Winnipeg Free Press - ... There have been many desperate messages posted during this PC Armageddon campaign. They have repeatedly reminded voters that their key opponent, Wab Kinew, who I think of as the Manitoba premier-in-waiting, has a troubled past. I get that any reader of these pages has been hearing this for years. It...

Unsolicited political texts, calls not breaking any laws, may influence some voters, prof says

29 September 2023

Winnipeg Free Press - ...Conservative party directed recipients to Wabway.ca, a Tory attack website. The site includes ads launched Wednesday depicting NDP Leader Wab Kinew as a “joker” and other party candidates as “wild cards” who intend to give away hard drugs, defund the police and intentionally mock the...

Commemoration first, provincial designation to follow? – Winnipeg Free Press

29 September 2023

Winnipeg Free Press - ...participate, if they choose, to honour and reflect and commemorate residential school survivors and the children who never came home,” NDP Leader Wab Kinew said Friday. “That includes you who work in a manufacturing plant, you who work on a construction site and, if you choose to go to work on a...

Manitoba NDP says it would make Orange Shirt Day a statutory holiday if elected – Winnipeg

29 September 2023

Global News - ...to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday in the province next year if they win Tuesday’s election. Leader Wab Kinew says Manitobans should be able to participate, if they choose, in honouring and commemorating residential school survivors and the children who...

Goertzen defends Tory leader’s late-campaign rural travel

29 September 2023

Winnipeg Free Press - ...suggested only about 11 per cent of voters were still undecided. “Part of it may be that voters have heard enough,” Thomas said. NDP Leader Wab Kinew, who spoke to reporters outside Victoria Hospital Friday afternoon in an appeal to voters in south Winnipeg, said it’s important to visit all...