Wayne Ewasko is a

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politician, who was elected to the

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in the 2011 election. He represents the electoral district of Lac du Bonnet as a member of the

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caucus. He was re-elected in the 2016, 2019, and 2023 provincial elections. He served in the cabinets of

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and

Heather Stefanson Heather Dorothy Stefanson (born May 11, 1970) is a Canadian former politician who served as the 24th premier of Manitoba from 2021 to 2023; the first woman in the province's history to hold that role. She is the former leader of the Progressiv ...

as the Minister of Advanced Education, Skills, and Immigration from 2021 to 2022 and then as Minister of Education and Early Childhood Learning from 2022 until the PC government's defeat in the

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. On October 24, 2023, he was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning. On January 18, 2024, he was named interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party following the resignation of Heather Stefanson. As interim leader, he apologized in March 2025 for PC campaign ads in the 2023 election that promoted their decision not to search for two victims' bodies in the

2022 Winnipeg serial killings Between March and May 2022, four Indigenous Canadian, Indigenous-Canadian women – Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and Ashlee Shingoose (initially unidentified until March 2025 and referred to as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe or Buffalo ...

Electoral record

Personal life

Ewasko is noteworthy as both a politician and a curler having previously been to the 2006, 2009,

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

and

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

provincial championships.

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Wayne Ewasko
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba MLAs Curlers from Manitoba Canadian educators People from Eastman Region, Manitoba Canadian sportsperson-politicians from Manitoba Members of the Executive Council of Manitoba 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba {{Manitoba-MLA-stub