Greg Selinger
2011 Manitoba Election Archive
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Incumbent since 1999
party leader
Greg Selinger incumbent
Political Party: NDP
Phone: (204) 930-4232
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Manitoba election campaign to start Tuesday as NDP seeks fourth mandate
Tuesday, 06 September 2011
Winnipeg Free Press - Premier Greg Selinger will visit the lieutenant-governor at 10:30 am local time to launch the NDP's effort to win a fourth consecutive majority provincial government. Selinger has also scheduled his first rally for the River East constituency — a ...
Official election launch set for Tuesday morning
Tuesday, 06 September 2011
Winnipeg Free Press - Premier Greg Selinger will visit Lt.-Gov. Philip Lee Tuesday at 10:30 am, officially launching a provincial election that really began last week. The visit to Government House will be largely anticlimactic thanks to a fixed election date politicians ...
Tories would expand fitness tax credit
Tuesday, 06 September 2011
Winnipeg Sun - “With support from Greg Selinger's NDP, the YMCA-YWCA has reopened and flourished in both St. James and the north end, and has opened redeveloped facilities in the south end and Elmwood Kildonan.” Manitoba Liberal spokesman David Shorr criticized ...
Poverty, broken family, mental illness helped shape Manitoba premier's politics
Sunday, 04 September 2011
Winnipeg Free Press - WINNIPEG - Most Manitobans are familiar with Greg Selinger the policy wonk — the NDP finance-minister-turned-premier who has three university degrees and can talk at length, sometimes tremendous length, about macroeconomic theory. ...
Too early to care about election
Sunday, 04 September 2011
Winnipeg Sun - NDP Premier Greg Selinger promised to put a cap on early years class sizes for students in kindergarten to Grade 3, as well as spend $24 million over four years to help recruit and train doctors, nurses, technicians and other medical professionals. ...
Invoking Layton's name a sophomoric act from Selinger
Sunday, 04 September 2011
Winnipeg Sun - But now Manitobans are going to be forced to sit through five weeks of Greg Selinger and friends trading on Saint Jack's good name in a blatant attempt for political gain? Our premier, in case you missed it, dedicated his re-election campaign the other ...
Tories, so far, stay vague on education policies
Saturday, 03 September 2011
Winnipeg Free Press - Premier Greg Selinger is running on 12 years of having increased funding to public education every year, even at the height of the recession, while pointing to the freezes and cuts the Tories made in the 1990s. "Our funding has consistently grown every ...
Saturday Special: The battles of Manitoba
Saturday, 03 September 2011
Winnipeg Free Press - "I say that, not out of respect for Greg Selinger as a person or a leader, just that doing retail politics was something that Gary Doer was naturally gifted at. Selling himself, selling his ideas, selling his party came naturally to Gary Doer. ...
Selinger touts classsize cap
Saturday, 03 September 2011
Winnipeg Free Press - On Friday, Premier Greg Selinger announced that, if re-elected, he would cap the number of students in Manitoba classrooms from kindergarten through Grade 3 at 20. The government would implement the proposal over five years. ...
Should retailers be free to set hours?
Saturday, 03 September 2011
Winnipeg Free Press - Premier Greg Selinger said the NDP has no plans to change the province's Sunday shopping laws. He said there are "very mixed views" on whether to extend Sunday shopping hours, including within the business community. The Canadian Federation of ...
Questionnaire Response
Greg Selinger - St. Boniface
Why did you decide to run in the 2011 Manitoba election?
Our government has made a lot of progress since the 90’s and I think if we work together we can achieve much more. I want families to have access to health care, quality education, good jobs, and feel safe in their communities.
What experience will you bring to compliment your role as MLA?
As a resident of St. Boniface for over 30 years and having raised my two sons in this community I feel passionate about St. Boniface's wonderful and unique qualities as a neighbourhood and its contribution to making Manitoba the wonderful province it is.
Is there anything in particular you would like to change in our province? In your electoral division?
Health care accessibility, opportunities for young people, recreational infrastructure, quality education & keeping Manitoba Hydro publically owned.
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