{"id":687643,"date":"2026-05-23T02:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687643\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:31:08","slug":"7th-candidate-enters-winnipeg-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687643\/","title":{"rendered":"7th candidate enters Winnipeg mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A political newcomer has added his name to the growing list of candidates running to be mayor of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Pagdato, 39, works as a document management specialist in the fields of logistics and supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the founder of a social media group called Project Protect the Kids Canada, which posts information about missing children.<\/p>\n<p>A born-and-raised Winnipegger, Pagdato believes his experience as &#8220;a policy and systems guy&#8221; can help him fix some of Winnipeg&#8217;s ills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m running because I believe Winnipeg is experiencing overlapping system failures involving housing, addiction, public disorder, affordability and public burnout.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pagdato said he&#8217;s also motivated to make the city better for his 10-year-old daughter and her generation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to house the homeless, heal the sick and lower the cost of living,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pagdato is the seventh mayoral candidate to register for the Oct. 28 municipal election.<\/p>\n<p>He joins incumbent Scott Gillingham, Mazher Alam, Chris Clacio, Umar Hayat, Mike Vogiatzakis and Don Woodstock on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Prospective mayoral candidates have until Sept. 22 to register.<\/p>\n<p>The registration period for city councillor and school trustee candidates opens June 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-687643","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\/687643","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=687643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}