{"id":24567,"date":"2023-10-18T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=24567"},"modified":"2023-10-18T22:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T22:27:14","slug":"how-about-some-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=24567","title":{"rendered":"How about some good news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Wab Kinew officially sworn in as Manitoba&#8217;s 1st First Nations premier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"781\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Wab-Kinew.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24575\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Wab-Kinew.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Wab-Kinew-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Wab-Kinew-768x600.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<cite> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Manitoba&#8217;s new NDP cabinet sworn in Wednesday includes First Nations women for 1st time in province&#8217;s history. After taking his oath, Kinew greeted\u00a0the crowd in the languages of seven different Manitoba Indigenous nations, and said Wednesday was the start of a new era.\u00a0Kinew also said with the members of his cabinet and caucus, members of Manitoba&#8217;s LGBTQ community will have many voices in government at a time of increasingly harmful rhetoric.Once all the new MLAs are sworn in, there will be 10 Indigenous members of the Manitoba Legislature among the 34-member NDP\u00a0caucus.The Progressive Conservatives enter the new legislature with 22 MLAs, while the Liberals have 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Edited from CBC News posted Oct 18\/23<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Court-Painter-Premier-Wab-Kinew.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24576\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Court-Painter-Premier-Wab-Kinew.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Court-Painter-Premier-Wab-Kinew-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Court-Painter-Premier-Wab-Kinew-768x555.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Court Painter seen with portrait of Premier Wab Kinew<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manitoba&#8217;s new NDP cabinet sworn in Wednesday includes First Nations women for 1st time in province&#8217;s history. After taking his oath, Kinew greeted\u00a0the crowd in the languages of seven different Manitoba Indigenous nations, and said Wednesday was the start of a new era.\u00a0Kinew also said with the members of his cabinet and caucus, members of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=24567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How about some good news&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24567"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24578,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24567\/revisions\/24578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}