{"id":633121,"date":"2026-04-28T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633121\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:43:09","slug":"shina-vermani-joins-surrey-first-team-as-council-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633121\/","title":{"rendered":"Shina Vermani joins Surrey First team as council candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Shina.jpg\" data-caption=\"Shina Vermani&#010;Photo submitted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"897\" class=\"lazyload entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Shina.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"Shina\"\/><\/a>Shina Vermani<br \/>\nPhoto submitted            <\/p>\n<p>SHINA Vermani of Newton has joined the Surrey First team as a council candidate,<\/p>\n<p>Vermani, a research and policy analyst with B.C.\u2019s Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills, has a Master of Commerce degree, a Bachelor of Education degree, and a postgraduate diploma in computer applications. Prior to joining the Ministry of Post Secondary Education, Vermani was a research and policy analyst with the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShina\u2019s experience in education and public safety, and her years of community service with seniors, youth and new Canadians, make her a strong addition to our Surrey First team,\u201d said Surrey First Councillor and candidate for mayor Linda Annis.<\/p>\n<p>Vermani said: \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to reaching out to local neighbourhoods and earning every vote. I\u2019m also excited about serving our growing community as we get ready to be our province\u2019s largest city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vermani joins Debra Antifaev, Councillor Mike Bose, Janet Brown, Bilal Cheema, Jasroop Gosal, Gagan Nahal, and Clint Stewart on the Surrey First slate headed by Annis.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shina Vermani Photo submitted SHINA Vermani of Newton has joined the Surrey First team as a council candidate,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,236859,236860,87674,204709,39],"class_list":["post-633121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-councillor-linda-annis","tag-shina-vermani","tag-surrey","tag-surrey-first","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633121","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=633121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}