Winnipeg Blue Bombers

• His election is a break with recent Manitoba political history and a continuation of long history of Indigenous involvement in electoral politics in Manitoba.
• A 2019 Act passed by the Manitoba legislature did just that when it named Riel Manitoba’s first premier.
• The title of first Indigenous premier might also go to John Norquay, Manitoba’s elected premier from 1878 to 1887.

Settler colonial order

• Apart from outgoing Conservative Premier Heather Stefanson, all of them have been men.
• This tells us a great deal about the settler colonial order that unfolded in Manitoba in the wake of the Manitoba Act of 1870 (which included the qualification that women could not vote), the dispersal and dispossession of Métis people, the Indian Act of 1876, the development of a reserve system and the creation of a federal system of Indian residential schools in the middle of the 1880s.
• They were in force for part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

Change in Manitoba

• He is an Annishinaabeg, a citizen of Onigaming First Nation in the Treaty Three region of northwestern Ontario and the son of a residential school survivor.
• This represents a significant change, but one that has been in the works for some time.
• In government, Kinew will sit alongside seasoned and talented Indigenous legislators, most of them women.

Timbits and hockey

• In a campaign managed by NDP veteran Brian Topp, Manitobans saw a genial, blue-suited Kinew offering Timbits and talking hockey.
• When Kinew took the microphone at the Orange Shirt Day Survivors Walk and Pow Wow in Winnipeg’s downtown hockey arena three days before the election, he was in an orange Blue Bombers shirt.
• The high-octane anti-Indigenous racism represented by the Conservative governments of Stefanson and Pallister appears to be no longer sustainable in Manitoba.

• The Givex reseller program is spearheaded by Givex Vice President of Value-Added Reseller (VAR) Services Bruce Henderson, who founded and grew leading full service POS hardware and software provider P.O.S.
• "The goal of the reseller program is to develop a network of partners and grow our footprint of clients in the United States and Canada," said Henderson.
• The Givex team handles the logistics with the client, including demos, proposals, support and more, but the reseller serves as a valuable local resource to these clients."
• "We are excited about the progress we've made so far, and look forward to the continued growth of Givex through our reseller partners."

• "With the Grey Cup being hosted in Hamilton this year the birthplace of Tim Hortons and at Tim Hortons Field, we wanted to do something fun to show our support for the exciting event that Canadian football fans look forward to every year," said Axel Schwan, president of Tim Hortons.
• "The fact that the hometown Ticats are playing for the Grey Cup makes this upcoming weekend all the more special.
• Starting tomorrow and while supplies last, participating Tim Hortons restaurants in the Hamilton area will be serving hot beverages in a grey cup with a Grey Cup logo when guests order their beverage in a medium or large size.
• The 108thGrey Cup from Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, featuring Arkells in the Twisted Tea Grey Cup Halftime Show, will be played on Sunday at 6 p.m.