{"id":14426,"date":"2018-07-28T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T12:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=14426"},"modified":"2019-11-19T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:08:21","slug":"algoma-manitoulin-mpp-michael-mantha-elected-new-ontario-ndp-caucus-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/28\/algoma-manitoulin-mpp-michael-mantha-elected-new-ontario-ndp-caucus-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Michael Mantha elected new Ontario NDP caucus chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: black;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">The NDP caucus has elected Michael Mantha (Algoma-Manitoulin) as the new caucus chair.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">\u201cHaving Michael Mantha as caucus chair is a great addition to our NDP team,\u201d said NDP Leader Andrea Horwath. \u201cMichael brings outstanding leadership abilities, and has the full confidence of our caucus \u2013 and our thanks for serving in this demanding role.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">The caucus chair is a position that provides leadership to the MPPs, fulfilling duties like chairing internal caucus discussion on bills and priorities. Under Horwath\u2019s leadership, the NDP caucus elected their caucus chair.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">&#8220;It\u2019s an honour to be chosen by my colleagues as caucus chair,\u201d said Mantha. \u201cI look forward to starting my new role and work with our great team to serve Ontarians, and the great people of Algoma-Manitoulin.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Mantha has represented the people of Algoma-Manitoulin since 2011.\u00a0He is the NDP critic for Northern Development and Mines, Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, and Tourism, Culture and Sports.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NDP caucus has elected Michael Mantha (Algoma-Manitoulin) as the new caucus chair. \u201cHaving Michael Mantha as caucus chair is a great addition to our NDP team,\u201d said NDP Leader Andrea Horwath. \u201cMichael brings outstanding leadership abilities, and has the full confidence of our caucus \u2013 and our thanks for serving in this demanding role.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 23:03:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14427,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions\/14427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}