{"id":498766,"date":"2026-02-25T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:08:10","slug":"minister-lela-evans-takes-on-women-and-gender-equality-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498766\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Lela Evans Takes on Women and Gender Equality Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/premier-tony-wakeham-minister-lela-evans.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Minister Lela Evans Takes on Women and Gender Equality Portfolio\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Tony Wakeham\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Health has another duty added to her already lengthy set of responsibilities. <\/p>\n<p>Lela Evans was officially sworn-in as the minister responsible for Women and Gender Equality yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>The portfolios on Evans\u2019 desk also include Health and Community Services, Mental Health and Addictions, Minister Responsible for NL Health Services, Labrador Affairs, and Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>Government says it recognizes that gender-based violence is both a safety and health issue and the change will help to strengthen supports for those affected.  Government believes that the change will help to ensure prevention, intervention, trauma-informed care and support for long-term recovery. <\/p>\n<p>The provincial government says adding Women and Gender Equality to Evans\u2019 duties will support closer alignment with frontline services and the supports people rely on every day.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Tony Wakeham\/Facebook) The Minister of Health has another duty added to her already lengthy set of responsibilities.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-498766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}