{"id":565631,"date":"2026-03-28T02:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565631\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:18:12","slug":"manitoba-names-new-ethics-commissioner-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565631\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba names new ethics commissioner \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manitoba has appointed a new ethics commissioner to replace the outgoing watchdog this spring.<\/p>\n

Sherri Walsh received the appointment Friday, and will serve as ethics commissioner for the next five years.<\/p>\n

Her experience includes nearly a decade of work with the City of Winnipeg, where she was appointed as the municipal government\u2019s first integrity commissioner, in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Sherri Walsh was appointed the province\u2019s new ethics commissioner, Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of our NDP caucus we want to wish Sherri Walsh an excellent five years in her new role,\u201d Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine said in the legislative chamber.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach and every one of us look forward to working with her as she helps us fill out the many, many different forms that we have to fill out as members of this legislative assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walsh has a law degree from the University of Manitoba and spent decades as a litigator, adjudicator, arbitrator, mediator and commissioner, the Manitoba Legislative Assembly said in a news release.<\/p>\n

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She acted as commission counsel at the inquiry into the death of Phoenix Sinclair, which became the largest public inquiry in Manitoba history. The five-year-old was killed by her mother and stepdad in 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout her career Sherri has advanced the law in substantive and procedural ways, particularly in the areas of human rights and ethics for elected officials,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOutside of the practice of law, Sherri maintains a deep connection to the community, volunteering with and serving as director on the boards of a number of non-profit community-based organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walsh will also serve the legislature as information and privacy adjudicator, and lobbyist registrar.<\/p>\n

She will assume the roles May 1, taking over from Jeffrey Schnoor who announced in November that he planned to resign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manitoba has appointed a new ethics commissioner to replace the outgoing watchdog this spring. Sherri Walsh received the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-565631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565631","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=565631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}