{"id":757335,"date":"2026-06-24T04:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757335\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T04:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:24:09","slug":"byelection-announced-for-july-21-in-northern-manitoba-riding-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757335\/","title":{"rendered":"Byelection announced for July 21 in northern Manitoba riding \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 A byelection has been scheduled for next month in northern Manitoba to fill the seat of a legislature member who died earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Wab Kinew says a byelection in The Pas-Kameesak will take place July 21.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Lathlin, who represented the riding, died in March at 49 after taking a leave of absence due to health issues.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3b2cafcae0903d40200056jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"4718\" data-pswp-height=\"2960\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3b2cafcae0903d40200056jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of the Manitoba Legislature is seen in Winnipeg on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/John Woods\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe exterior of the Manitoba Legislature is seen in Winnipeg on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/John Woods<\/p>\n<p>Lathlin was a former band councillor for Opaskwayak Cree Nation and became the first First Nations woman elected to the legislature in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Lathlin\u2019s father, Oscar Lathlin, was an NDP cabinet minister who served in the government of former premier Gary Doer.<\/p>\n<p>Kinew\u2019s NDP occupies 33 of the legislature\u2019s 57 seats, along with 20 Progressive Conservatives, one Liberal, two Independents and one vacant seat.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 23, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 A byelection has been scheduled for next month in northern Manitoba to fill the seat of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-757335","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\/757335","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=757335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}