{"id":14407,"date":"2023-11-24T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/legislation-would-make-metis-leader-louis-riel-honorary-first-premier-of-manitoba\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T12:06:42","slug":"legislation-would-make-metis-leader-louis-riel-honorary-first-premier-of-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/legislation-would-make-metis-leader-louis-riel-honorary-first-premier-of-manitoba\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation would make Metis Leader Louis Riel honorary first premier of Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LlDfkFGTcZk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Metis leader Louis Riel will be recognized as Manitoba&#8217;s honorary first premier if a bill put before the legislature Thursday is passed into law.<br \/>\nThe honorary designation is in recognition of the man who led a provisional government in what is now Manitoba and led the way for the province to join Confederation in 1870, Premier Wab Kinew said.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to CTV News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CTV News:<br \/>\nFor the latest news visit: <br \/>\nFor a full video offering visit the CTV News Network:<\/p>\n<p>CTV News on Facebook:  <br \/>\nCTV News on TikTok:<br \/>\nCTV News on Twitter:  <br \/>\nCTV News on Instagram: <br \/>\nCTV News on Reddit:<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nCTV News is Canada&#8217;s most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metis leader Louis Riel will be recognized as Manitoba&#8217;s honorary first premier if a bill put before the legislature Thursday is passed into law. The honorary designation is in recognition of the man who led a provisional government in what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15245,8223,2754,1757,2755,594,1021,15250,15246,562,15248,12907,14002,596,15251,15247,48,15249,11303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}