Wab Kinew
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Wab Kinew MLA |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Fort Rouge |
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Assumed office April 19, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Jennifer Howard |
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December 31, 1981 Kenora, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Political party | New Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Monkman |
Wabanakwut (Wab) Kinew (born December 31, 1981) is a Canadian politician, musician, broadcaster and university administrator, best known as a host of programming on CBC Radio and CBC Television.
Originally from the Onigaming First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, he is the son of Tobasonakwut Kinew, a former local and regional chief and a professor of indigenous governance at the University of Winnipeg, and Kathi Avery Kinew, a policy analyst. Kinew moved to suburban Winnipeg with his parents in childhood and attended Collège Béliveau, a French immersion school, and vacationed in Onigaming in the summers. He graduated from the University of Winnipeg Collegiate which Kinew said in a 2014 interview was "a private high school, one of the best in Winnipeg." Kinew earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Manitoba.
Kinew began working in broadcasting after the Winnipeg Free Press published a letter to the editor which he had written about Team Canada hockey, and a local CBC Radio producer contacted him to express interest in creating and airing a documentary feature on the topic.
Kinew has been a reporter and host for the CBC's radio and television operations, including the weekly arts magazine show The 204 in Winnipeg and the national documentary series 8th Fire in 2012. He is also a host of the documentary program Fault Lines on Al Jazeera America.
In 2014, he appeared as a panelist on CBC Radio's Canada Reads, defending Joseph Boyden's novel The Orenda. The novel won the competition.
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